On February 1, 2009, in Moscow, in an underpass at the Yaroslavsky railway station, two young men Mikhail Kirillov and Yegor Kostyunin attacked a group of people with non-Slavic appearance - a citizen of Tajikistan Bafoev, a native of Georgia Melia and natives of the Caucasus Ragimov and Shapiev. The attackers began to beat people, shouting insults and slogans of nationalistic content. One of the attackers stabbed a Tajik citizen twice. The victim died on the spot.

*We publish a list of the guilty verdicts for the non-violent hate crimes issued in 2008, in Russia. In total, we know about 42 verdicts (we don't include the verdicts which we consider to be unlawful). Besides, there were 2 verdicts for vandalism committed with a hate motive. Admitting the hate motive as an aggravating circumstance of vandalism is very rare, that's why we count such cases separately.