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SOVA Center releases a comprehensive report on the application of the Russian Criminal Code provisions related to extremism, based on data from 2024

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.

Russian Nationalism and Xenophobia in June 2025
The following is our monthly review of instances of xenophobia and radical nationalism, along with any government countermeasures, for June 2025.
Russian Nationalism and Xenophobia in May 2025
The following is our monthly review of instances of xenophobia and radical nationalism, along with any government countermeasures, for May 2025.
Russian Nationalism and Xenophobia in April 2025
The following is our monthly review of instances of xenophobia and radical nationalism, along with any government countermeasures, for April 2025.
Russian Nationalism and Xenophobia in March 2025
The following is our monthly review of instances of xenophobia and radical nationalism, along with any government countermeasures, for March 2025.
Sanctions for Administrative Offenses Related to Extremism in 2023–2024
In recent years, SOVA Center has been monitoring the application of specific articles of the Russian Code of Administrative Offenses that regulate public statements. This report summarizes our observations on how these legal norms were applied in 2023 and 2024.
Russia's Politicized Law Enforcement and its Evolution
The Russia Program at George Washington University published an article by Alexander Verkhovsky titled “Russia's Politicized Law Enforcement and its Evolution.” 
Neo-Nazis on the Rise: Hate Crimes and Countering Them in Russia in 2024

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.

What is Driving the Intensifying Anti-Migration Campaign in Russia?

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.

Official Statistics of the Judicial Department of the Supreme Court on Countering Extremism for the First Half of 2024
The Judicial Department of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has published statistics on articles of the Criminal Code and the Code of Administrative Offenses applied in the first half of 2024. We present data concerning the application of provisions on public speech and banned groups and provisions on distributing prohibited materials and symbols.
SOVA's address and recommendations at the OSCE Warsaw Human Dimension Conference - 2024

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.

Address and Recommendations at the Plenary Session III “Tolerance and Non-Discrimination I”

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”.

The State is Trying to Restore Control Over the “Ultrapatriotic” Camp

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.

Address and Recommendations at the OSCE human rights conference 2022 - Session "Tolerance and Non-Discrimination I"
SOVA Center took part in the OSCE human rights conference in Warsaw on September 26 - October 7, 2022. See the SOVA's written statement for the session "Tolerance and Non-Discrimination I".
SOVA Center's statement for the session on addressing all forms of intolerance and discrimination and building equal and inclusive societies at the ODIHR 30th anniversary conference
SOVA Center took part in the OSCE conference "ODIHR: three decades and ready for the future" in Warsaw on October 14-15, 2021.