Since the beginning of 2016, no fewer than four people, in Moscow and the Vladimir region, have been victims of xenophobic violence. For February, we are not aware of such incidents.

We learned of at least three acts of ideologically motivated vandalism in February 2016, in Vologdonsk, Sevastopol, and Tolyatti. Since the beginning of 2016, at least six of these acts have been committed in five regions of Russia.

Ultra-right public activity was low during February.

A few nationalists participated in the march in memory of Boris Nemtsov on February 27 in Moscow. At the beginning they walked in the Free Russia and Democratic Choice blocs. In the Free Russia bloc, nationalists led by Denis Romanov the Russian (Denis Kulikov) flew imperial flags and a banner reading, “Down with political repressions 282,” referring to the anti-extremist provision of the Russian Criminal Code. This column also included members of the Russian United Nationalist Alliance (RONA). Sova Center’s observers also noted Dmitry Dyomushkin and a few of his comrades in attendance.

In Voronezh, the rally in memory of Nemtsov was not without incident. Activists from the National Liberation Movement (NOD) threw flour, eggs and vegetables at those gathered at the meeting.

We should also draw attention to ultranationalist participation in a picket in solidarity with European ultra-right-wing activists against asylum for refugees from Syria. The picket was held on February 6 in Saint Petersburg, and included 12 participants from the National-Democratic Party, the Russian Imperial Movement, and the Motherland Party. The picket’s organizer was Vsevolod Radchenko, head of the Petersburg chapter of the National-Democratic Party.

In February 2016, we became aware of only a single conviction on a charge of racist violence, against two people in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Region. Since the beginning of the year, there have been three such rulings against six individuals, in three regions of the country.

There were no fewer than ten convictions for xenophobic propaganda in February 2016. The rulings were against 11 individuals in 10 regions of Russia. Since the beginning of the year, Russian courts have convicted no fewer than 21 people in 20 rulings on xenophobic propaganda charges, in 16 regions of the country.

The Federal List of Extremist Materials was updated four times this month, on February 3, 5, 17, and 25. Entries 3259-3303 were added. The new additions include various xenophobic materials; ultranationalist materials; various Islamist and Islamic materials, including militant materials; multiple materials from Ukrainian mass media and the Internet; as well as radical anti-Russian materials from Ukraine; and songs by the anarchist group La Vida Cuesta Libertades.

It is worth mentioning that “Iman Islam Namaz,” a brochure by Muhammad Saalih al-Munajjid, which was declared extremist by the Lenin District Court of Vladivostok in September 2015 and added under entry 3292 of the Federal List, had been already declared extremist by the same court in February 2013 and added to the List already under entry 2073.