student safety in St Petersburg

[Alina Israeli]

US government keeps track of hate crime stats: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ 
hc2006/incidents.html

Somebody did it for Ukraine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 
Racism_and_discrimination_in_Ukraine
Note, the article exists only in English.

I am yet to see a national statistics. Instead we find NGO's  
collecting data:

The number of violent hate crimes against individuals in Russia  
continues to grow steadily, with 2008 on track to be another record- 
setting year. According to the leading nongovernmental monitor, in  
2007 there were at least 667 victims of racially motivated violence,  
including 86 murders. The beginning of 2008 has shown an increase in  
the most violent hate crimes. Already in the first eight months of  
2008, 65 people were killed as a result of racial and other bias- 
motivated assaults. (http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/discrimination/ 
countries/russia/index.aspx)


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Alina Israeli
Associate Professor of Russian
LFS, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington DC 20016
(202) 885-2387 	fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu





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