The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on the fight against extremism in 2020
On March 3, 2021, at an extended meeting of the board of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the head of the department, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, announced that the police had identified 500 crimes of an extremist nature in 2020. (See the certificate of the SOVA Center " On Crimes of an Extremist Orientation "). “Last year, internal affairs officers identified 500 extremist crimes, or 60% of the total number registered,” the minister said.