This month, at least two people wereaffected by racist and neo-Nazi attacks. In St. Petersburga Central Asian was killed, while a Cameroonian national was beaten in Moscow. Our preliminary data for 2012 shows that atotal of 18 people were killed and at least 171 were injured as a result ofsuch attacks in 30 regions of Russia.In addition, two people were the targets of serious death threats that could becategorized as xenophobic in nature.