The following is our monthly review of instances of xenophobia and radical nationalism, along with any government countermeasures, for November 2020. This month, no fewer than two people were targeted in xenophobic attacks, both of them in St. Petersburg. Since the beginning of 2020, according to our data, 36 individuals have suffered from such violence, with one killed; another five received death threats.

In the Ryazan region, a swastika appeared on the monument of military glory. On December 6, 2020, unknown people depicted a swastika on the monument "Memorial Sign of the Frontier of Glory of the Moscow Battle" near the spruce. Poyarkovo, Mikhailovsky district, Ryazan region. The Nazi badge was frosted over with water. Sources Makarov Maxim. What kind of people: at the monument in the Mikhailovsky district, unknown people depicted a swastika // Progorod.2020. December 6.

In September 2020, Ilyasbek Toktonazarov, a Kyrgyzstani, was sentenced to two years in prison for participating in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). In December, from the message of the Federal Security Service of Russia for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, it became known that on September 3, 2020, the Kingisepp City Court of the Leningrad Region sentenced to two years in prison under Part 2 of Art.

At the end of November it became known that the authorities of Samara areas allocated funds to compensate non-profit organizations and Media expenses for providing video broadcasts during the visit to the region of the patriarch Cyril in September 2019, as well as the broadcast of the Easter service from cathedral in 2020. As part of the "Safe City" program, the organizers of direct ether will be allocated subsidies in the amount of 458,608 rubles.

On December 7, 2020, during a meeting with Minister of Culture Olga Lyubimova, Vladimir Putin recalled the need to transfer several objects of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra to the Russian Orthodox Church. At the meeting, among other things, restoration work on the territory of the monastery was discussed. “ There are still some objects on the territory of the Lavra that need to be returned,” the president said. According to the minister, this issue is being studied.