Police detained two youths after they attacked an anti-fascist youth in Dzerzhinsk, Russia (Nizhny Novgorod region), according to an April 29, 2008 report by the local news service Novoe Telegrafnoe agenstvo. The youths attacked after spotting anti-fascist tattoos on their victim. The prosecutor's office decided not to charge the suspects because they are under-aged. In the week around Hitler's birthday (April 20--traditionally a time of increased neo-Nazi violence in Russia) local police undertook a special operation aimed at cracking down on "informal youth groups"--a common euphemism for neo-Nazis. They held "preventative conversations" with members of these groups in order to "prevent acts aimed at inciting ethnic hatred." The April 18 attack came to light as a result of these investigative efforts, which netted charges against 161 local youths, 40 of them members of "informal youths groups."

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