RUSSIAN PROSECUTOR GENERAL SAYS THE NUMBER OF CRIMES ON THE BASIS OF XENOPHOBIA RISE

RIA Novosti
2009-02-13 13:59:00

ArmInfo. Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chayka said the number of
crimes on the basis of xenophobia have risen.

‘There is such a problem. We see and know that’, – Russian Prosecutor
General Yuri Chayka said at today’s joint press conference in
Yerevanwith his Armenian counterpart Agvan Hovsepyan. He recalled
special department to investigate xenophobia was set up in Prosecutor
General’s Office two years ago. ‘According to the president’s decree,
similar department has been recently set up in Russian Ministry
of Internal Affairs [MIA]. The crimes on this basis have really
grown. But I should say we are working much, and together with MIA we
are coordinating our efforts to contradict these phenomena. I think
we shall continue working much in this direction. At the sitting of
Federal Security Service and MIA the president charged us to take
much efforts’, – Russian prosecutor general said. As for adequacy of
punishment measures, he said here is also much to think over. He also
added that the annual report on the state of legality in Russia, which
also says about this topic, will be submitted to the president soon.

‘We offer the complex of measures which will promote activation of
the joint work not only of the law-enforcement agencies, but the
power structures, federal subjects and the government in general’,
– he said. ‘The problem has become sharp because of the economic
crisis. There are many people in Russian from other CIS countries
which arrived to earn money. Many of them lost job because of the
crisis and have nowhere to go, as the situation in their native land
is harder while here they hope to get job in some way. We see it
and understand and try to work in this direction so that to remove
tension in the society’, – Yuri Chayka said.