May, 2009. Monthly Summary
In May, 2009, not less than 22 people, including 5 fatalities, became victims of hate motivated violence. In all, from the beginning of the year, there have been 147 victims of such attacks, including 30 fatalities (in 2008, in the same period of time, there were 307 victims, including 66 fatalities). In May, racist and neo-Nazi attacks were reported in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Blagoveshchensk, Krasnodar, Nizhny Novgorod and Stavropol.