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Russian Federation

The Russian Federation regularly reports on hate crime to ODIHR. Its Criminal Code contains general and specific penalty enhancement provisions and substantive offences. The authorities responsible for collecting data are the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Prosecutor's Office and the Statistical Office.

Hate crime data collection in Russia
Support for hate crime victims in Russia
Access more information at the Legislation Online website Legislationline TANDIS Access more information at the Tolerance and Non-Discrimination Information System (TANDIS) website

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OFFICIAL DATA

Year Hate crimes recorded by police Prosecuted Sentenced
2020 833 590 379
2019 585 368 320
2018 576 958 852
2017 52 755 692
2016 1450 993 676
2015 Not available Not available Not available
2014 Not available Not available Not available
2013 Not available Not available Not available
2012 Not available Not available Not available
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2009 Not available Not available Not available

National developments

A court in Moscow found 12 people guilty of murder, inciting racial hatred, attempted terrorism and participation in extremism. At least one attack was filmed and posted on the internet. Five members of the outlawed Nationalist Socialist Society, a neo-Nazi gang, were sentenced to life in prison for the racially motivated murders of 27 people. Several other members of the gang were given jail terms of up to 23 years. The gang targeted and pursued people in Moscow who were or appeared to be from Central and South East Asia, Africa or the Caucasus region and brutally attacked them.

Incidents reported by civil society, international organizations and the Holy See

Reports

Hate crime against Christians and members of other religions

The Holy See reported 11 cases of vandalism, eight of which targeted property associated with Russian Orthodoxy and three of which targeted Protestant sites.

The SOVA Center for Information and Analysis reported 27 physical assaults, including 22 against Jehovah’s Witnesses, three against Mormon missionaries, one against an Orthodox priest and one against a man who was mistakenly believed to be an Orthodox priest; 34 cases of damage to property, including against 16 properties owned by Jehovah’s Witnesses, one by Hare Krishna, 12 by Orthodox Christians, four by Protestants and one by Pagans; and four cases of arson, including three Orthodox churches and one Protestant site.

A World Without Nazism reported one case of arson targeting a place of worship owned by Jehovah’s Witnesses, which was occupied by 60 people at the time of the attack, and, in a connected incident, one case of damage to a car.

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Racist and xenophobic hate crime

Human Rights Watch reported the physical assault of a prominent Russian human rights activist of Uzbek origin working for the Moscow-based Memorial Human Rights Center, repeated threats against members of the Anti-Discrimination Center Memorial in St. Petersburg and the murder of a leading newspaper columnist who was covering human rights abuses. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OPHRD) reported repeated threats against the head of the Novorossiysk Human Rights Committee and his family, leading to their leaving the region.

The SOVA Center for Information and Analysis reported 22 murders, including those of ten migrants from Central Asia and six people from the Caucasus; 128 physical assaults, including of 25 migrants from Central Asia and 14 people from the Caucasus; one attack by a group; one attack with explosives; and two attempted attacks with explosives, including against a Chinese restaurant; one arson attack; one case of incitement to violence; and one threat.

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Anti-Semitic hate crime

The SOVA Center for Information and Analysis reported one physical assault, 13 cases of damage to property and one case of arson. The Moscow Bureau for Human Rights reported one case of graffiti against a cemetery. The Kantor Center reported three cases of graffiti, including two on cemeteries and one on a Jewish community centre; one case of property damage against a cemetery in Petrozavodsk; and one case of arson against a synagogue in Moscow.

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Anti-Muslim hate crime

A World Without Nazism reported one case of desecration that involved throwing pigs’ heads at a monument.

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Anti-LGBTI hate crime

ILGA-Europe reported several physical assaults, one of which involved serious injuries, at LGBT events in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The Russian LGBT Network reported 14 physical assaults, four of which involved serious injury, two of which involved group attacks and one of which involved a knife; seven cases of threats, including one involving a bomb threat; one robbery; two murders; and one case of extortion. The victims were all gay men, with the exception of one lesbian.

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INTERNATIONAL REPORTS

Racist and xenophobic hate crime

UNHCR in Russia coordinated and contributed to a number of activities related to its commitment to “reduce the level of xenophobic attitudes, frequent manifestations of xenophobia and migrant-phobia in Russian society, especially among youth”. These included contributing to an international/regional seminar “Towards a Coherent National Policy to Prevent and Combat Racial Discrimination and Related Intolerance: Developing and Implementing National Action Plans”, coordinating a set of eight programmes devoted to tolerance issues entitled, “New Place of Residence” on the UNHCR sponsored, nationwide channel Radio of Russia, and working with a local NGO to award diplomas for the best project on tolerance relating to refugees and migrants at a regular international competition: “Dialogue – Road to Understanding”.

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