Central Asians, North Caucasians, gays, and the homeless top Russia's list of hate-crime victims in 2015
Moscow and St. Petersburg again led Russia in xenophobic hate crimes last year, according to a new report by the Sova Human Rights Center. In Sova's 2015 report on xenophobic hate crimes throughout Russia, the organization recorded 3 murders and 26 injured in Moscow, and 3 murders and 14 injured in St. Petersburg. There was also noticeable violence in Moscow oblast (5 injured), Samara oblast (3 injured), and Novosibirsk oblast (3 injured).