The regional public organization entitled SOVA Center for Information and Analysis (ROO Tsentr “Sova”) was a Moscow-based Russian nonprofit organization that was founded in October 2002 by a group of people working for the Panorama Center for Information and Research and the Moscow Helsinki Group.

Alexander Verkhovsky had been the director of the organization since its inception.

ROO Tsentr “Sova” conducted information and research work on such topics as nationalism and xenophobia, relations between religion and the secular society, implementation and misuse of anti-extremist legislation and policies.

In late 2016 the Ministry of Justice included ROO Center “Sova” in the "foreign agents" registry. In 2023, the Ministry of Justice filed a lawsuit to liquidate the organization and won finally on August 17, 2023, whereupon the organization ceased its activities.

The work of ROO Tsentr “Sova” had received support from:

• European Instrument for Democracy & Human Rights (EIDHR),
• Norwegian Helsinki Committee,
• Berta Foundation,
• International Partnership for Human Rights,
• Article 19,
• DRA,
• Russian Jewish Congress
• Open Society Foundation (OSF),
• National Endowment for Democracy (NED),
• The German MFA,
• The Dutch MFA,
• People in Need,
• Henry M. Jackson Foundation,
• Federal grants from the Russian Federation (through the State Club Foundation, Institute of Civil Society Problems, and Civil Dignity Movement),
• The State Club Foundation,
• The Public Verdict Foundation,
• The UK Embassy bilateral programme,
• Freedom House,
• Liberty Road Foundation.