Member for

12 years 5 months
Year
Report data for country
Cases Perpetrators were Sentenced
676
Cases Prosecuted
993
Cases Recorded by Police
1450
Explanation to the total figures recorded
Official statistics do not provide breakdown by bias motivation or type of crime. The numbers reflect recorded extremist crimes and include crimes falling outside of the OSCE definition of hate crime. Of the number of extremist crimes presented here, 26 cases involved violence or threats.
Intro for the Incidents

The SOVA Centre reported description of incidents as well as statistical data.

IGO
Description Type
Developments
Organization Report

In its concluding observation on periodic reports of the Russian Federation, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) recommended that the Russian authorities concentrate their efforts on responding seriously to racist attacks carried out by ultra-nationalists, neo-Nazi groups and Cossack patrols. CERD also recommended that the authorities ensure adequate punishment for perpetrators of hate crimes and develop training courses for criminal justice agencies on hate crime identification, investigation and prosecution.

ODIHR Recommendations

ODIHR observes that the Russian Federation does not collect data and statistics on hate crimes.

Overall incidents summary

The SOVA Centre reported descriptions of incidents as well as statistical data. This explains the discrepancy between the graphic above and the incidents included below.