Four young men face terrorism charges in St. Petersburg in connection with two bombings last year as prosecutors submitted their set of charges to court, according to a July 28, 2008 report by the official news agency RIA-Novosti. Employing the euphemistic language typically employed by Russian officials when speaking about far-right violence, the report described the motivation for the bombings as "displeasure with city government policies aimed at regulating inter-ethnic relations" in St. Petersburg. One of the bombing attacks targeted an anti-fascist event called "Food Not Bombs" on February 4, 2007. A saleswoman at a nearby kiosk was hurt by the explosion. Neo-Nazis regularly attack participants in "Food Not Bombs" (during which anti-fascists distribute food to homeless people) and in 2005 murdered an anti-fascist activist named Timur Kacharava as he went home from that event. The bombers also allegedly targeted a MacDonalds in the city on February 18, injuring six victims. Their trial is scheduled for July 31.

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