In January 2009, not less than 39 people, including 14 fatalities, became victims of racist and neo-nazi violence (in January 2008, there were not less than 59 victims, including 15 fatalities).

As before, Moscow (10 murdered and 15 injured people) and St. Petersburg (2 murdered and 7 injured people) remain major centers of violence. Besides, attacks were reported in Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Ryazan and Ulyanovsk.

The most vulnerable group remain people from the Central Asia (7 people), although in January, people of different origin were attacked in Russia (black people, people from the South-East Asia, the Caucasus etc).

In January 2009, in Moscow, there was an attempt to blow up one of the :McDonald's; restaurants. The group of suspects was detained in connection to this and 4 other explosions in Moscow and the Moscow region.

In January 2009, there were not less than 3 verdicts against 7 people for racist violence: in St. Petersburg, a verdict was issued for a series of explosions under art. 205 of the Criminal Code (terrorism); in Khabarovsk - for a hate motivated murder and in Kaluga region - for hate motivated hooliganism and beatings.

For some reason, the hate motive was not included in the verdict issued against a rightwing radical from Nevinnomyssk, who had put a hoax explosive device to the office of the local Federal Security Service, and had been shooting at a group of Caucasians from a gun. He was convicted of deliberately false reporting of a terrorist act and unmotivated hooliganism.

In January, not less than 4 verdicts against 5 people were issued for xenophobic propaganda in Moscow, Tomsk, Krasnodar Krai and Tyumen region.

In the end of January, in the Republic of Adygeya, a pagan religious group of Ingliist :old believers; was doomed extremist for using swastika as one of the symbols. Before, similar Ingliist organizations had been banned in Omsk and Krasnodar, and apart from using swastika, they had been accused of racist elements of the religion itself.

The Federal List of extremist materials was enlarged for 3 times (on January 16, 22 and 27). The number of entries grew from 301 to 314. In all, by February 1, 2009, there are305 titles on the list (9 materials were put on the list twice).