Press Release: Africans Under Attack in Moscow (January 2010) Source: MPC Task Force on Racial Violence and Harassment For Immediate Distribution MOSCOW (MPC) – The new year has started off with a wave of attacks against people belonging to visible minorities, particularly Africans, across Moscow. The Moscow Protestant Chaplaincy (MPC)’s Task Force on Racial Violence [...]

“The sheriff can’t be fucked by the problems of Negroes”

MOSCOW Aug 31, (BBC) – Nearly 60% of black and African people living in Russia’s capital Moscow have been physically assaulted in racially motivated attacks, says a new study. Africans working or studying in the city live in constant fear of attack, according to the report by the Moscow Protestant Chaplaincy. Full story here at [...]

ST. PETERSBURG Aug 31, (AFP) – A Russian court has jailed a skinhead for 11 years for stabbing a student to death he thought was anti-fascist on the anniversary of Hitler’s death, a court said on August 31. Vladimir Sosnikhin, 22, was jailed for killing the student on April 20, 2008, mistaking him and his [...]

MOSCOW Aug 14, (AFP) – Police in Russia have arrested a suspected serial killer accused of committing 15 murders in Moscow, news agencies reported on August 14. The 21-year-old man is being quizzed in connection with the killings of non-Slavic people over two years. “Police suspect him of having committed 15 murders in Moscow in [...]