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Chronicle of the Guilty Verdicts for Propaganda of Xenophobia in Russia. 2009.
In 2009 no less than 38 guilty verdicts were issued for racist propaganda in 27 regions of Russia. Here is the general list of these verdicts.
We present the list of guilty verdicts under the art. 282, which we consider to be unlawful, separately. In 2009 there were 3 such verdicts. (Some links are in Russian.)

Chronicle of Guilty Verdicts for Hate Motivated Violence. 2009.
We publish the list of the guilty verdicts for violence issued in Russia in 2009 in which the hate motive was officially recognized. The list was made on the basis of the SOVA Center daily monitoring. In all, in 2009, we registered 44 guilty verdicts in 25 regions of Russia. (Some links are in Russian).
Galina Kozhevnikova. Summer 2009. The Ultra-Right and the State: Positional Warfare
Edited by Alexander Verkhovsky Wе publish our seasonal report on radical nationalism and counteraction to it in summer 2009. As usual, the report is based on the results of the SOVA Center daily monitoring.
Galina Kozhevnikova. The Spring of 2009: from Racist Killings to Political Terror
Edited by Alexander Verkhovsky Wе publish our seasonal report on radical nationalism and counteraction to it in spring 2009. As usual, the report is based on the results of the SOVA Center daily monitoring.
Galina Kozhevnikova. Winter 2008-2009: Although Their Last Political Party Is Closed,Nationalists Broaden Their Ranks
Ed. by Alexander Verkhovsky Wе publish our seasonal report on radical nationalism and counteraction to it in winter 2008-2009. As usual, the report is based on the results of the SOVA Center daily monitoring.
Galina Kozhevnikova. Radical Nationalism in Russia in 2008, and Efforts to Counteract It
Edited by Alexander Verkhovsky We publish English version of our annual report, based on the daily monitoring.
Hate Language and Elections: Federal and Regional Levels. Monitoring Results
SOVA Center for information and Analysis publishes short results of monitoring studies of hate language in Russian Mass Media. The list of monitored media included 54 print and broadcast outlets in Moscow and 6 other regions (Krasnodar, Penza, Saratov, Izhevsk, Yaroslavl, Barnaul). The monitoring was carried out between 1 September 2007 and March 2008, and it coincided with the State Duma and Presidential election campaigns.
Chronicle of the Guilty Verdicts for Propaganda of Xenophobia in Russia. 2008
We publish a list of the guilty verdicts for the non-violent hate crimes issued in 2008, in Russia. In total, we know about 42 verdicts (we don't include the verdicts which we consider to be unlawful). Besides, there were 2 verdicts for vandalism committed with a hate motive. Admitting the hate motive as an aggravating circumstance of vandalism is very rare, that's why we count such cases separately.
Chronicle of Guilty Verdicts for Hate Motivated Violence. 2008
We publish the list of the guilty verdicts for violence issued in Russia in 2008 in which the hate motive was officially recognized. The list was made on the basis of the SOVA Center daily monitoring. In all, in 2008, we registered 33 guilty verdicts in 19 regions of Russia. Each entry is linked to Russian language SOVA reports.
Galina Kozhevnikova. Summer 2008: Anti-Extremism, Real and Fake
Edited by Alexander Verkhovsky Wе publish our seasonal report on radical nationalism and counteraction to it in summer 2008. As usual, the report is based on the results of the SOVA Center daily monitoring.