On July 14, 2025, SOVA Center published a report by Maria Kravchenko and Natalia Yudina titled “Counter-Extremism in 2024: Regulation of Public Speech and Organized Activity.” The Russian version is available here; the report is currently being translated into English.
This is an analytic review focused on the phenomenon, known as hate crimes – that is, on ordinary criminal offenses committed on the grounds of ethnic, religious or other similar enmity or prejudice.
See Alexander Verkhovsky's article on the ongoing anti-migrant campaign in Russia published on December 19, 2024, by Russia.Post. The author points out that fearmongering about labor migrants has become Russian officialdom’s default rhetoric. He argues that recent anti-migration efforts presage a transformation of the official ideology.
SOVA Research Center took part in the 2024 OSCE Warsaw Human Dimension Conference. Here we publish our statement at the Plenary Session 8 "Tolerance and Non-Discrimination I" on October 8.
SOVA Center took part in the OSCE conference "ODIHR: three decades and ready for the future" in Warsaw on October 2023. See the SOVA's statement made for the session “Tolerance and Non-Discrimination I”.
Aleхander Verkhovsky explains how the Russian ultraright is faring amid the war, how government policy is changing toward them and also what problems the government’s anti-Ukraine propaganda is running into.
The original interview in Russian was made by Maria Litvinova and published in Republic. A shortened version with some changes has been approved by the author and republished in RussiaPost with Republic's permission.
