According to the monitoring data of Moscow bureau for human rights, in 2009 215 attacks were committed and 74 dead and 282 wounded at least were their results. 

During similar period in 2008 120 people at least perished and 368 people at least were wounded from the hands of militant national-radicals, in 2007 69 people at least perished and 312 at least were wounded. 

The attacks were recorded in Moscow and Moscow region (33 dead, 131 wounded), St. Petersburg and Leningrad region (8 dead, 26 wounded), Chechnya (5 dead), Nizhniy Novgorod (5 dead, 44 wounded at least), Krasnodar region (3 dead, 3 wounded), Stavropol region (2 dead, 13 wounded at least), Samara region (2 dead, 7 wounded), Yaroslavl (2 dead, 2 wounded), Kaliningrad (1 dead, 2 wounded), Vladivostok (1 dead, 6 wounded), Blagoveshchensk (1 dead, 6 wounded), Daghestan (1 dead, 2 wounded), Chelyabinsk region, Ulyanovsk, Orel (1 dead, 1 wounded), Ingushetia, Lipetsk region, Ryazan, Novosibirsk region, Kemerovo, Kaluga region, Buryatia, Karachai-Cherkess (1 dead each), Vladimir region (7 wounded), Yekaterinburg (5 wounded), Naberezhniye Chelny, Irkutsk (4 wounded), Murmansk (3 wounded), Kabardino-Balkaria, Republic of Adygei, Saratov (2 wounded at least), Voronezh, Tambov, Syktyvkar, Volgograd, Kostroma, Novgorod region, Izhevsk, Petrozavodsk, Penza, Ufa, Kirov region, Kursk (1 wounded each). 

The victims of attacks include: Uzbeks (14 dead, 12 wounded), the Kirghiz (8 dead, 10 wounded), the Tajik (7 dead, 18 wounded), Russians (7 dead, 13 wounded), Azerbaijanis (5 dead, 15 wounded), Armenians (3 dead, 15 wounded), Daghestanis (3 dead, 4 wounded), the Vietnamese (3 dead), the Chinese (2 dead, 8 wounded), natives of Africa (1 dead, 19 wounded), Koreans (1 dead, 3 wounded), Chechens (1 dead, 4 wounded at least), Kabardinians (1 dead and 1 wounded), Georgians (1 dead, 2 wounded), the Ingush (1 dead, 1 wounded), Jews (6 wounded), Kazakhs (5 wounded), Nogays (4 wounded), Turkmens (3 wounded), Spaniards (3 wounded), Americans, Indians, Kalmyks, Bangladeshis, Buryats, Kurds, Latin Americans, Iraqis, Ossetians, the Swiss (1 wounded each). 

In 2009 142 cases of vandalism at least were recorded. 

Some decrease of a wave of national-radical criminality is a consequence of active work of law-enforcers who stopped the activity of several racist gangs in 2008-2009. The reciprocal nationalism of the minorities was also available. Thus, the gang “Black hawks” consisted of young people – natives of the Caucasus – who attacked the teenagers-Muscovites suspected of belonging to nationalistic groups. The gang members got from 4 to 7 years of imprisonment. 

A tendency of transition of skin-gangs from attacks to terrorist underground activity committing “pointed actions” towards anti-fascists and authority representatives is observed as well as use of cold weapons, fire arms and homemade explosive devices. Among such actions a series of arsons and acts of vandalism committed on May 5, on so-called Day of Revenge, and prepared explosions of temples, cafes, markets and militia stations can be distinguished. 

On nationalistic Internet resources such actions are actively propagated, making heroes of people convicted for crimes motivated by xenophobia takes place as well as announcing them political prisoners, actions are conducted for collection of funds for them etc. 

Conflicts between nationalists and anti-fascists acquire the character of “street war” with famous murders (the murder of one of anti-fascist leaders Ivan Khutorskoy in November 2009 became one of the recent ones). 

Radical nationalists use the protest moods of various social groups with their purposes giving a xenophobic character to this protest. The most notable actions of this kind became the active incitement of a conflict around transfer of some traders from liquidated Cherkizovo market to the spaces of the trade center “Moscow”. 

The radicals continued the “privatization” of the Day of people’s unity on November 4 conducting the next “Russian march” in some cities. Anti-fascist actions were insignificant on that day and did not become a real ideological counterbalance to the radicals. 

Xenophobic, neo-Nazi, pogrom literature is continued to be published and actively sold at book fairs taking place in Moscow despite the formal declarations of their management about inadmissibility of extremist literature, and it is disseminated through book-selling networks all around the country. 

In 2009 the fact of appearing of a tutorial in St. Petersburg university of the Ministry of home affairs of RF was recorded written by one of the lecturers V. Drozhzhin that contained anti-Semitic passages. However after indignation of mass media and human rights activists the textbook was withdrawn and V. Drozhzhin was fired. The books by the lecturer T. Gracheva with similar xenophobic myths were sold in the Academy of the General Staff. 

In the consciousness of the Russians the rejection of the idea “Russia for the Russians” (32% of population think this is a real fascism and 36% think this idea should be implemented “within reasonable limits”) gets along with strong migrant-phobic views (61% of Russians think the inflow of newcomers should be restricted). 

In 2009 the attempts of officials, politicians to increase their popularity due to use of migrant-phobic slogans were observed. For example, xenophobic rhetoric was heard at the meeting arranged against the next “New Cherkizovo market” on December 20, 2009 by the party “The just cause” propagating democratic ideology. 

In 2009 312 persons were convicted for crimes motivated by aggressive xenophobia. 2 persons were sentenced to 20-25-year imprisonment, 23 - to 10-20-year imprisonment, 52 - – to 5-10-year imprisonment, 61 – to 1-5-year imprisonment, 9 - to imprisonment in colony-settlement, 30 - to correctional and public work, for 4 persons educational effect measures were set, 1 person was sentenced to two-days arrest, 80 - got suspended sentences, 37 – were sentenced to penalties, 3 – were sent for compulsory treatment, 3 – were released from liability due to expiration of statute of limitation and against one person the case was terminated due to his repentance. 4 else of the accused were found not guilty completely. In 2007 85 persons were convicted during similar period, and in 2008 – 212 persons. Conservation of unfairly big number of suspended sentences can be stated – they make absolutely no disciplining effect upon the accused. Imposition of considerable fines would be more efficient in this case. 

Up to mid-December the Federal list of extremist materials numbered 454 items. 

The remaining cases of ungrounded application of anti-extremist legislation discredit the idea of combat against aggressive xenophobia, racism, and neo-Nazism. The most notable manifestations of ungrounded anti-extremism include the persecutions of anti-fascists in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Izhevsk, inclusion of publications of left activists into the Federal list of extremist materials. The scandal was caused by the decision of the expert of North-Western regional center of judicial expert examination Yelena Kiryukhina concerning the case of attack on St. Petersburg schoolboy-Azerbaijani T. Kerimov – she acknowledged that the screams “Kill the Caucasian!” and “Russia for the Russians!”, “Beat the blacks!” were not nationalistic. However the indignation that started in mass media led to the fact that the Department on investigation of most important cases of Investigatory committee of RF for St. Petersburg accepted the criminal case concerning the fact of beating of T. Kerimov to the process again promising to execute a complex socio-humanitarian expert examination. 

Forecasting the situation in 2010, one can hardly speak about reduction of number of crimes motivated by racism. Most likely the new splashes of racist criminality, ethnic conflicts are possible on the background of social-economic problems, unemployment, propaganda of xenophobic and migrant-phobic moods, inarticulate migratory policy, and complete lack of mass enlightenment and educational work and of extremism prevention among the youth. 

Thus, already during January holidays a daring attack on the citizen of Ghana was committed in suburban electric train of Moscow-Kazan direction. Three unknown persons attacked 31-year-old Bismarck O. at the span Vykhino – Kosino. The man was taken to one of hospitals with penetrating wounds of abdominal cavity. In Vladivostok a man armed with a knife attacked two citizens of Kirghizia and inflicted numerous wounds upon them. 

The publicist L. Radzikhovsky fairly notes: “Disappointed hopes plus crisis, plus general disappointment with authority – here are the ideological reasons for abrupt activation of Russian Nazis. But the most interesting thing is that the authority can respond to this challenge just with more or less tough police measures. But the authority has no ideological fire to fight the Nazi fire. Ideological prostration of official authorities just increases. The authorities wanted the society to be pregnant a little with great-power nationalism – but the browns became seriously pregnant! And the Nazi infant stirs to its utmost in the society’s belly …”.