The Levada Center has published the results of its annual study of xenophobic sentiments among Russians. On September 18, 2019, the Levada Center published the results of its traditional all-Russian study of xenophobic sentiments among Russians. This year it took place on August 22–28—sociologists conducted personal interviews with 1,608 people over 18 years of age. The center's research is divided into three blocks, the first of which is devoted to migrant phobia.

A criminal case has been initiated against two young people who allegedly attacked a citizen of Uzbekistan. On September 17, 2019, it became known that a criminal case was initiated in St. Petersburg under paragraph “l” of Part 2 of Art. 105 of the Criminal Code with the application of Part 3 of Art. 30 of the Criminal Code (attempted murder motivated by ethnic hatred).

Unknown persons drew a yellow cross on the memorial sign. On September 16, 2019, it became known that in the Volgograd region in the village of Aksay, Oktyabrsky district, unidentified people drew a cross on a memorial sign for the victims of the Holocaust, established by the Russian Jewish Congress. According to media reports, the police qualified the incident as a manifestation of hooliganism, not anti-Semitism. The chief rabbi of Volgograd is of the same opinion.

More than a hundred priests of the Russian Orthodox Church from different cities of Russia and the world signed an open letter in defense of convicted participants in protests related to the election of deputies of the Moscow City Duma.