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The State Has Taken up Racist Violence Again: Hate Crimes and Counteraction to Them in Russia in 2021
This is an analytic review focused on the phenomenon, known as hate crimes – that is, on ordinary criminal offenses committed on the grounds of ethnic, religious or other similar enmity or prejudice.
Well-Forgotten Old: Hate Crimes and Efforts to Counteract Xenophobia and Radical Nationalism in Russia in the First Half of 2021
This report by Natalia Yudina is an analytic review of Hate Crimes and Efforts to Counteract Xenophobia and Radical Nationalism in Russia based on the SOVA's monitoring (first half of 2021).
Anti-extremism in Quarantine: The State against the Incitement of Hatred and the Political Participation of Nationalists in Russia in 2020
This report by Natalia Yudina is an analytic review of the state's efforts to counter incitement of hatred and political activities of Russian nationalists. It presents the results of SOVA Center's monitoring carried out 2020.
«Potius sero, quam nunquam»: Hate Crimes and Counteraction to Them in Russia in 2020
This is an analytic review focused on the phenomenon, known as hate crimes – that is, on ordinary criminal offenses committed on the grounds of ethnic, religious or other similar enmity or prejudice.
The New Exile Strategy of Russian Nationalists
An article "The New Exile Strategy of Russian Nationalists" by Natalia Yudina is published in GW's Illiberalism Studies Program.

In the Absence of the Familiar Article. The State Against the Incitement of Hatred and the Political Participation of Nationalists in Russia in 2019
This report by Natalia Yudina is an analytic review of the state's efforts to counter incitement of hatred and political activities of Russian nationalists. It presents the results of SOVA Center's monitoring carried out 2019.
Criminal Activity of the Ultra-Right. Hate Crimes and Counteraction to Them in Russia in 2019
This is an analytic review focused on the phenomenon, known as hate crimes – that is, on ordinary criminal offenses committed on the grounds of ethnic, religious or other similar enmity or prejudice.
Russian Nationalists Veterans on the Donbas War
An article "Russian Nationalists Veterans on the Donbas War" by Natalia Yudina and Alexander Verkhovsky is published in special issue on Donbas fighters in Nationalities Papers.
Red/brown – hit of the season. Public activities of ultra-right groups, winter-spring 2019
See the summary of the new report by Vera Alperovich on the dynamics of Russian nationalists’ political activities in winter-spring 2019. The full version is available here in Russian.
A New Turn of the Kremlin’s Anti-Extremist Policy
The Point & Counterpoint project by PONARS Eurasia releases Alexander Verkhovsky's piece on the latest developments of anti-extremist legislation.