Head of the Department for Combating Extremism of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia on the registration of extremist crimes
On January 25, 2010, the head of the Department for Combating Extremism of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Colonel-General of Militia Yuri Kokov, gave statistics on extremist crimes and spoke about the difficulties with their registration. According to him, * "130 crimes were committed in 2004, 460 in 2008, and 548 in 2009.