"Human rights organizations, media sources and the United Nations (UN) Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), report increased racial discrimination, xenophobia, and racially motivated violence against ethnic minorities in Russia. According to the SOVA Center for Information and Analysis, a Moscow-based non-profit organization which monitors hate crimes (SOVA n.d.), anyone with "non-Slavic features" may be assaulted by racists in Russia ..." (Quoted from paper) (The paper is only available through the link)