Racism and Xenophobia in January 2012
January 2012 saw at least 11 people killed and 10 more injured in racist and neo-Nazi attacks in Moscow and St. Petersburg and the Kaliningrad, Voronezh and Tver regions. The victims were non-Slavic individuals and anti-fascist activists, primarily those participating in a January 19 rally in memory of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova, the lawyer and journalist who were murdered in broad daylight in Central Moscow by a neo-Nazi in 2009.