Hate crime

Tag: Hate crime

Stand-up comic detained for 10 days for xenophobic jokes about Russians

Moscow’s Tagansky District Court on Monday placed stand-up comic Idrak Mirzalizade in administrative detention for 10 days for insulting Russian people on account of ethnic descent.

16:52 09.08.2021

Five defendants in 2000s race hatred murder case detained for two months

Moscow’s Basmanny District Court on Thursday detained five defendants in a case over racial hatred murders in the 2000s until February 22, 2021.

15:17 24.12.2020

Ukrainian pranker accused of misinforming of Kemerovo fire victims arrested in absentia

Moscow’s Basmanny District Court on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant in absentia for Ukrainian national Nikita Kuvikov known as pranker Yevgeny Volnov, who allegedly disinformed people of the death toll in the blaze in Kemerovo’s Zimnyaya Vishnya (“Winter Cherry”) shopping mall.

20:55 28.03.2018

Probe opened into Ukrainian pranker over Kemerovo tragedy

A criminal case was opened against Ukrainian national Nikita Kuvikov known as pranker Yevgeny Volnov, who allegedly disinformed people of the death toll in the blaze in Kemerovo’s Zimnyaya Vishnya (Winter Cherry) shopping mall.

12:14 28.03.2018

Convicted Pokemon Go player appeals his sentence

Videoblogger Ruslan Sokolovsky, who had received a suspended term for playing Pokemon Go in a church, filed an appeal with the Sverdlovsk Region Court against the sentence.

13:57 18.09.2017

Russian nationalist Martsinkevich found guilty of inciting hatred and enmity

Moscow’s Babushkinsky District Court has found infamous Russian nationalist Maxim Martsinkevich guilty of inciting hatred and enmity, hooliganism, robbery and property destruction.

16:38 27.06.2017

Pokemon Go player receives suspended sentence for inciting enmity

A court in Yekaterinburg on Thursday gave videoblogger Ruslan Sokolovsky, who had been playing Pokemon Go in a church, a 3.5-year suspended sentence for inciting enmity and hatred.

11:28 11.05.2017

Prosecutor asks court to give blogger 3.5 years for playing Pokemon Go in church

Prosecutor has asked court to sentence videoblogger Ruslan Sokolovsky, who was catching pokemons in a Yekaterinburg church via Pokemon Go app, to 3.5 years in prison.

10:53 28.04.2017

Russian citizen charged with desecration of national flag

Investigators have charged Nikita Sadkov, the 31-year old resident of the Moscow Region, with desecration of the Russian state flag and incitement of national hatred.

14:12 21.04.2017

Blogger who was catching pokemons in Orthodox church insists on his innocence

Videoblogger Ruslan Sokolovsky who was catching pokemons in a Yekaterinburg church via Pokemon Go app pleads not guilty to all charges.

14:50 13.03.2017

Blogger who was catching pokemons in Orthodox church appeals his detention in ECHR

Videoblogger Ruslan Sokolovsky who was catching pokemons in a Yekaterinburg church via Pokemon Go app has appealed his detention in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).

10:50 20.02.2017

Man brutally killed in South Russia ‘for being gay’

Russian investigators confirmed on Monday a man beaten to death last week in Volgograd, south Russia, was the victim of a homophobic gang.

13:19 13.05.2013