In April 2010, at least 18 people, including 3 fatalities, became victims of racist and neo-Nazi attacks. Beside Moscow (1 dead, 6 injured) and St. Petersburg (5 injured), incidents of violence were recorded in Nizhny Novgorod (1 dead), Orel (1 dead, 1 injured), Saratov (1 beaten), and Ryazan (2 beaten). In April 2009, 3 people were dead and 27 more beaten or injured.

In all, during the first four months of 2010, 15 people were dead and at least 103 injured in 24 of Russian regions. (From January to April 2009, 30 people were dead and 149 injured.)

In April 2010, at least 9 guilty verdicts (in Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as in Volgograd, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan and Sverdlovsk regions, Krasnodar Krai, Chuvashia, and Tatarstan) were issued for racist hate crimes. 29 people were convicted, 10 of them received suspended sentences without any supplementary sanctions.

In all from the beginning of the year, at least 18 guilty verdicts have been issued for racist violence. 74 people were convicted, 25 of them received suspended sentences.

In April 2010, 4 sentences were passed for xenophobic propaganda in Karelia, Astrakhan and Arkhangelsk regions. 4 people were convicted; two of them were released from punishment for the statute of limitation had expired. On the same ground, the trial of a racist policeman from St. Petersburg region failed. In this case, the defense apparently slowed down the proceedings till the expiry of the statute of limitation.

In April 2010, the Federal List of Extremist Materials was updated twice (on April 2 and 22). It grew from 574 to 592 items. Thus, as of April 30, 2010, the list contains 592 items of which 33 are included twice and 5 are put in the list inappropriately for the court decisions on banning them as extremist are cancelled; one entry is annulled.

Perhaps the most striking event of April 2010 was the Moscow city court ruling to ban Dmitry Dyomushkin's Slavic Union as an extremist organization. It is noteworthy that the proceedings were extremely short: the first hearing took place on April 13 and on April 27 the ruling on the ban was passed. If Dyomushkin will not succeed in appealing, the Slavic Union will join the Federal List of Extremist Organizations that now contains 11 items (including the National-Socialist Society, NSO, and the Ryazan department of the Russian Nationalist Unity, RNE).