January, 2009. Monthly Summary
In January 2009, not less than 39 people, including 14 fatalities, became victims of racist and neo-nazi violence (in January 2008, there were not less than 59 victims, including 15 fatalities). As before, Moscow (10 murdered and 15 injured people) and St. Petersburg (2 murdered and 7 injured people) remain major centers of violence. Besides, attacks were reported in Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Ryazan and Ulyanovsk.