The number of attacks on Jews (or those considered to be Jews by the attackers) remains minimal in 2010, as well as in recent years. There were only 3 cases on record in 2010 (In 2007-2008 there were 8 cases per year, and there were 6 attacks in 2009).

On the 9th of February, a religious Jew was attacked in Ulyanovsk.

On the 19th of March, 55-year-old A. Broder, who came to the Babushkino district (Moscow) military enlistment office with a request to make a note in his military record that he is no longer eligible for draft since he has passed maximum draft age, was rudely kicked out of the building “because he is a Jew” by the Draft Department head M. Kunitsin.

On May 20th, in Rostov-na-Donu, a worker of the ”Russia Today” TV channel, Roman Kosarev, was beaten by “Zenith” fans, who were shouting anti-Semitic slogans.

An attack by nationalists on the pupils of the 1871 Moscow Jewish school, which is near a traditional place of nationalistic rallies on the Chistye Prudy, can be classified as anti-Semitic. The incident took place in the middle of December. The students had to take refuge on the territory of the school, and the police had to be called to support the school guards.

There was only one case of desecration of Jewish graves. Vandals broke 20 tombstones at the Voronezh Jewish cemetery on the night of July 21st, and in the evening of July 22nd. Considering the fact that 2009 saw 10 such incidents, a sharp decline in them can be noted. This is possibly part of a general decreasing trend for grave desecration fueled by xenophobia – according to the Moscow Human Rights Bureau, only 5 incidents in general were recorded in 2010. It is possible that a certain positive role was played by the sentences given to the vandals.

The percentage of attacks on buildings of Jewish organizations remains significant – 13 out of 45 xenophobic attacks or desecrations of buildings. There is a slight increase in the number of such attacks (in 2007-2009 the number was stable at 9 or 10 attacks per year). But this is likely not a byproduct of an increase in anti-Semitic activity, but of an improved knowledge of the situation in certain provincial communities. Buildings belonging to Jewish organizations were attacked in Ekaterinburg (on the 26 and 27th of January threatening phone calls were recorded, and on February 1st the synagogue was desecrated), Izhevsk (the desecration of the Community Center for Jewish Culture on 12th of March), Ulyanovsk (2 attacks on the synagogue, on the 9th and 10th of May), Tver (a homemade bomb explosed on the night of June 20th near the synagogue, and partially destroyed its entrance), Krasnoyarsk (a window was broken by a thrown rock on the 24th of June). Ufa (community center desecrated in June), Khabarovsk (on the night of August 29th, the JAFI building was stoned), Barnaul (at the end of September, windows were broken in a rabbi's home, and anti-Semitic graffiti desecrated the synagogue on October 7th and 12th).

There is a significant ratio of anti-Semitic fliers and graffiti in the general number of xenophobic graffiti and fliers – 25 cases out of 117 (7 in Ulyanovsk, 3 in Nizhny Novgorod and Tomsk, 2 each in St. Petersburg, Leningrad and Tyumen Oblasts, 1 each in Moscow and Moscow Oblast, the Republic of Tatarstan, Stavropol Krai and Khabarovsk Krai, Kaliningrad, Kurgan, Tver, and Yaroslav Oblasts). This ration of anti-semitic and generally xenophobic graffiti shows the important role of anti-Semitism in nationalist ideology. The most noticeable of these cases were the threat to blow up the theater that was to run the “La Juive” (“The Jewess”) opera (St. Petersburg, February 18), and the anti-Semitic posters in Tver, which depicted Head Rabbi of Russia Berl Lazar and the slogan: “Remember: our main enemy is the JEW! If you see one – immediately ATTACK!”