January 2006:
-Several Sudanese graduates of the Voronezh Medical School attacked. (2004 and 2005 saw attacks on Angolan, Guinea-Bissauan (killed), Chinese, Peruvian (killed), and Rwandan citizens in Voronezh.)
-Skinhead goes on a stabbing rampage in Moscow's main synagogue, injuring nine people. (In 2005 Moscow was the scene of seven reported racially motivated murders and 107 beatings.)
February 2006:
-In St. Petersburg (where 2005 attacks numbered 800, and 12 beatings happened in the first three months of 2006) Malian man stabbed and killed.
-Kazakh stabbed to death in St. Petersburg.
March 2006:
-Teenaged killers of 9-year old Tadjik girl stabbed and beaten to death sentenced to short sentences for 'hooliganism' rather than murder. Light sentences outrage activists.
-Ghanaian man beaten up in St Petersburg.
-In Moscow, Afro-Cuban elderly restaurant worker murdered.
-Nine-year old mixed-race girl stabbed in the face and beaten in St. Petersburg.
-Senegalese student murdered in St. Petersburg.
April 2006:
-Seventeen-year old Armenian student stabbed to death on metro platform in Moscow.
-Lamsar Samba Sell shot to death in St. Petersburg.
May 2006:
-Amnesty International issues report saying Russian racism is 'out of control.'
June 2006:
-Protest against Armenian student's murder.
-Tadjik students attacked in Moscow, two police later charged for the crime.
-Armenian shot and killed in Moscow.
-Russia-based Sova Information and Analysis Centre, human rights group, reports 18 killed and 129 injured in race attacks in 19 regions of Russia in first half of 2006. By September, according to Sova, the numbers have risen to 33 killed and 280 injured.
-Zimbabwean medical student attacked and beaten in Rostov-Na-Donu.
-Nigerian man stabbed and robbed in Moscow.
July 2006:
-Race attack injures Kazakh and Uzbek citizens in Moscow.
-Two Russians receive 18 month sentences for race-attack on tv producer.
August 2006:
-Iranian attacked in Moscow.
-Russian Supreme Court affirms 'not guilty' verdict for accomplice of teenaged killers of Tadjik girl in 2004.
-Killer of Peruvian student (killed in 2005 in Voronezh) receives 16-year sentence.
-Bomb set in Moscow's Cherkizovsky market, explosion kills 11 and injures 50. Four young Russians are arrested and confess to the racially-motivated attack.
-In the northen city of Kondopoga, a restaurant dispute involving Russian customer complaints and Chechen 'enforcers' escalates, after an ineffectual appeal to authorities, into race riots between locals, and mobilised extremists, on the one side, and Chechen/Caucasian businessmen perceived to enjoy impunity guaranteed by a Chechen/Caucasian mafia on the other. Riots spread through the region, leave at least two dead, and target small, minority-owned businesses. 'Kondopoga' becomes a phrase to conjure with, even in President Putin's speeches, evoking aggrieved Russians avenging - with justification or not - simmering resentments against non-Russians in their midst.
September 2006:
-Hundreds demonstrate in Moscow against illegal immigrants; many are arrested.
-Medical student from India stabbed to death in St. Petersburg. Indians stage demonstration against the murder.
October 2006:
-Vietnamese protest light sentence for killers of Vietnamese student (2004 in St. Petersburg).
-Extremists in paramilitary dress-up trash Marat Guelman's Moscow gallery and beat him up.
-300 Russians demonstrate against race hate in Moscow.
November 2006:
-Russian extremists ignore ban and official warnings and demonstrate in Moscow and other cities.
-Three Russians jailed for race attacks.
-Kyrgyz migrant workers 'savagely' beaten by a teenaged gang of Russian skinheads shouting racist slogans. Eleven suspects arrested, including six minors.
-Fifteen-year old Armenian boy killed at the railway station of Ivanteyevka, outside Moscow. Four local residents charged with the crime.
December 2006:
-Russian extremist leader, Ruslan Melnik, 22, is sentenced to 3 and 1/2 years in prison for orchestrating attacks on foreigners in St. Petersburg.
-President Putin opens a conference of political party leaders with remarks on the 'vital importance' of combatting extremism and intolerance and the violence that comes from it.
-Three Koreans savagely beaten in Vladivostok, one dies of injuries.
-Indian student attacked and beaten in St. Petersburg.
-Turkish diplomat stabbed in Moscow
(Sources: Ria Novosti, Interfax, Tass, Moscow News, Amnesty International, RFE/RL)
