Russian Federation

The Moscow Protestant Chaplaincy reported ten physical assaults, including two carried out by a group and two causing serious injury, and one threat. All of the victims were men of African descent. One man was assaulted twice in the space of six months.

The SOVA Centre for Information and Analysis reported 97 victims of ethnically motivated attacks. These included 12 murders of people from Central Asia, including one where a victim died in hospital from injuries sustained during an attack carried out by a group against at least eight people in a restaurant; 23 physical assaults, also against people from Central Asia, 3 murders and 14 physical assaults against people from the Caucasus region; 13 physical assaults against people of African descent; and physical assaults against six Palestinian people, five Russian people, two Japanese people, one Bangladeshi person and one Chinese person. SOVA reported a further two cases of damage to property carried out by a group in which shops and produce owned by migrants were destroyed, and one incident in which photographs of the homes of migrant workers, along with their names and addresses, were posted on the Internet.

The SOVA Centre for Information and Analysis reported four physical assaults against Roma people.

The SOVA Centre for Information and Analysis, the Kantor Center and the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC) reported a physical assault against a Jewish man. SOVA and the EAJC reported one further incident of vandalism on a synagogue. SOVA reported four further incidents of the vandalization of Jewish sites. The EAJC reported seven additional incidents of anti-Semitic graffiti.

The SOVA Centre for Information and Analysis reported one physical assault against a Muslim woman, seven incidents of damage to property and three arson attacks.

The SOVA Centre for Information and Analysis reported 11 physical assaults on Jehovah's Witnesses, 17 incidents of vandalism, eight of which were on Orthodox sites and eight on buildings owned by Jehovah's Witnesses. SOVA also reported two arson attacks on Orthodox sites.

The Russian LGBT Network and the LGBT Initiative Group "Coming Out" reported the murder of a man perceived by his attackers as gay, and three physical assaults causing serious injuries and involving robberies, one of which was carried out by a group. In addition, the Russian LGBT Network and "Coming Out" reported four physical assaults causing serious injuries, one of which involved the kidnapping and rape of a gay man, seven incidents of physical assaults, and five incidents of physical assaults carried out by groups. The Russian LGBT Network and "Coming Out" reported a further 15 physical assaults causing serious injuries carried out by groups specifically targeting members of the LGBT community.

The Russian LGBT Network,  "Coming Out" and the SOVA Center for Information and Analysis also reported a physical assault on the metro causing serious injury to two women perceived to be lesbians. The Russian LGBT Network, "Coming Out," SOVA and Human Rights Watch reported an attack by a group forcibly attempting to enter an LGBT event during which a security guard was pelted with eggs. The Russian LGBT Network, "Coming Out" and Human Rights Watch reported a group seriously disrupting an LGBT event by attempting to enter forcibly, physically assaulting participants and spraying disinfectant on them.

The Russian LGBT Network and "Coming Out" also reported two incidents of damage to property, one arson attack, one incident of theft, in which a man was locked out of his flat and denied access to his belongings after his sexual orientation was discovered, and four incidents of threats.

SOVA reported five more physical assaults causing injuries by groups, including an attack on a school group dressed in kilts in celebration of St. Patrick's Day, who were perceived to be from the LGBT community, and one incident in which a group attempted to forcibly remove a flag from an LGBT activist.

Human Rights Watch reported a series of incidents in which gay men were physically and sexually assaulted by a group. In one case, urine was poured over the victim’s head. The incidents were filmed and posted online. Human Rights Watch reported a further physical assault carried out by a group against a gay man, four incidents of threats, one of which was a bomb threat and the other three against LGBT activists.

World Without Nazism reported three murders; ten physical assaults, including one causing serious injuries and one carried out by a group; and three incidents of attacks carried out by groups against LGBT rallies.