In September 2016 the far right attacked at least 8 people in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and inthe Omsk and Krasnodar regions. Since the beginning of 2016, 4 people have been killed by racist violence, 43 have been wounded, and 3 have received serious death threats. Racist attacks have been recorded in 11 Russian regions.

Five facilities suffered from xenophobic vandalism in September in the Kaliningrad, Kemerovo, and Perm regions, as well as the Republic of Tatarstan. It's notable that in Kaliningrad, both the graves of and monuments to fallen soldiers were desecrated twice in one week. In total, since the beginning of the year, we recorded attacks on 26 sites in 17 regions of the country.

In September, the raiding activity of nationalist groups continued. On September 14 in Moscow, the “Citadel” project, headed by Vladimir Ratnikov, conducted a raid in order to search for illegal trading locations for melons and watermelons.

Nationalists also had the opportunity to participate in Russia's State Duma elections on 18 September. The “Rodina”party (Motherland) received a mandate with party leader AlexeyZhuravlyov winning the Annensky single mandate district of the Voronezh region (a region which lacked a “United Russia” candidate). Valentina Bobrova (of the National Conservative Movement) took fifth place of ten.

Sergey Baburin (of the Russian National Union) received fourth place of eleven in the Tushinsky single member district won by the Communist Party (KPRF).

Maria Katasonоva (from the National Liberation Movement of Yevgeny Fedorov) took eighth place of 13 in Moscow's Central single member district.

Alexander Samokhin (Honor and Freedom Movement)received eighth place of ten in Skopinsky single member district in the Ryazan region being a candidate of the “PARNAS” party.

In the Moscow region, a group of six ultra-rightists were sentenced to varying terms of imprisonment for staging a “white wagon” .

Since the beginning of the year, racist violencehas received at least 14 verdicts against 38 persons in 12 regions of the country.

There have been at least 10 convictions against 10 people in 8 regions of the country for xenophobic propaganda since the beginning of 2016.

The sentence against the previously mentioned former leader of RFO “Pamyat” (Russian Liberation Front “Memory”) and the current leader of the moscow branch of the Nation and Freedom Committee, Vladimir (Ratnikov) Komarnitsky, is notable. On September 27, 2016, he was handed a suspended one-year prison sentence for posting songs by the groups “Kolovrat” and “Bands of Moscow” on social media.

In 2016, there have been at least 141 sentences against 157 people for distributing racist propaganda in 56 regions of the country.

During September, the Federal List of Extremist Materials was updated three times (2, 9 and 29 September) with items 3189-3877 added. These included videos by neo-Nazis and Muslim militants, images from Ekaterina Vologzheninova's webpage on the events in Ukraine with the inscription: "Death to the Russian occupiers," and N.Bogolyubov's poem from the book "Dawn is close!".

In September, the Federal List of Extremist Organizations added two religious groups as items 50 and 51. These were Jehovah's Witnesses communities of Stary Oskol and Belgorod banned by the Belgorod regional court on February 10 and 11, 2016.