Russia is going through rapid growth of aggressive Russian nationalism. Admittedly, it has been here before, but a qualitative shift occurred at the borderline between the past two decades. On the one hand, massive ethnic xenophobia increased dramatically, and has since become an outlook shared my most of the country's population.

Anti-Semitism in Russia. January - September 2006 In general in 2006, all main trends observed in Russia before continued and evolved, but similar to other forms of radical nationalism, anti-Semitism became more intense and aggressive. The biggest incident in 2006 continues to be the attack against a Hassid synagogue in Moscow by Alexander Koptsev, a 21-year-old Moscovite.

These recommendations were distributed on OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, Warsaw, 2-13 October 2006 To OSCE: Decide that OSCE member states must provide annual reports on hate crime and measures for counteracting it. Develop a single minimum standard for hate crime monitoring and, accordingly, universal and comparable requirements for OSCE member countries' annual reporting on hate crime counteraction.

Мы публикуем краткий обзор расистского и неонацистского насилия в России. Материал подготовлен Центром СОВА к ежегодной встрече ОБСЕ по человеческому измерению, состоявшейся в октябре 2006 года в Варшаве. Помимо краткого обзора в материал включены статистические данные о расистских нападениях за 2004-2006 гг. и о приговорах за преступления, совершенные по мотиву национальной ненависти (англоязычная версия обзора размещена здесь ).