In March, 2010, at least 15 people, including 3 fatalities, became victims of racist and neo-Nazi attacks. (In March, 2009, 3 people were dead and at least 30 injured.)

Incidents of violence were recorded in Moscow (2 dead, 6 injured), St. Petersburg (2 injured), Volgograd (no less than 3 injured), Yaroslavl (1 dead), and Murmansk (1 injured).

In all, from the beginning of the year, hate attacks have taken place in 20 of Russian regions. As before, three of them are keeping the lead, namely, Moscow (6 dead, 18 injured), St. Petersburg (16 injured), and Nizhny Novgorod (1 dead, 6 injured).

In March, 2010, at least 5 guilty verdicts (in Kaliningrad, St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, and Ulyanovsk) were issued for violent hate crimes. 26 people were convicted; 3 of them received suspended sentences. In all from the beginning of the year, at least 7 guilty verdicts have been issued for such crimes; 39 people were convicted; 12 of them received suspended sentences without any supplementary sanctions.

Only one sentence was passed in March, 2010, for xenophobic propaganda. A graffitist was convicted in Amur Oblast under article 280.

The Federal List of Extremist Materials was enlarged on March 1, 15, and 29. It grew from 493 to 574 items. The majority of the banned materials belong to Jehovah's Witnesses against which the campaign of persecution is in progress.

After a long pause (since August, 2009), the Federal List of Extremist Organizations was updated. Two more items were included, namely, the Jehovah's Witnesses community of Taganrog and the City Public Patriotic Organization "Russian National Unity' (Russkoe natsional'noe edinstvo) of Ryazan. Thus, the list contains 11 organizations at the moment.

We should also note that activity of Dmitry Dyomushkin's Slavic Union (Slavyansky soyuz) was suspended by the prosecutor's office which brought an action against the organization alleging it to be extremist.

Another significant sentence passed in the end of March is the ban of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf'. We cannot rate this decision as positive for all Hitler's works are a priori banned in Russia by the Federal Law on Combating Extremist Activity. So there is no need in extra court decisions overfilling the Federal List of Extremist Materials extremely long and ineffective as it is.