Russian officials made a number of statements in 2010 on the necessity to counteract xenophobia and anti-Semitism. These statements were mostly evoked by the events connected to the justification and support of Nazi Germany supporters in Ukraine and the Baltic countries.

The President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev sent a message on December 27 to the participants of the memorial events dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The message of the President reads: “The generations that have not witnessed the horrors of war must know about them. And we all must understand what staggering price humanity had to pay for condoning xenophobia and chauvinism. We must remember that six million people were deprived of life because of their nationality – only because they were Jews. According to the plan of the Fascists, at least a third of the population of the occupied territories was to share their fate. 65 years have passed since Fascism was defeated, and yet still voices are heard of those who try to justify Nazi crimes, ranking together victim and executioner, liberators and occupants. And certain countries go even further – they make heroes of Nazi panderers. These attempts to revise history are inadmissible, and we must unite our efforts in combating them. We must be firm in our knowledge of the fact that indifference, disinterest, and disregarding of the lessons of history, in the end, lead to tragedies and crimes. At the same time, trust and mutual aid allow to stand against the most dangerous threats. Today the tragedy of the Second World War remains a bitter warning. The defense of peace and freedom on the planet is in our hands. And we – all of us together – are responsible for it before the current generation and those generations that will follow it.”

On February 10, Dmitry Medvedev congratulated the staff and veterans of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Diplomat's Day, and placed before them the task to aid the modernization of the country and counteract any attempts to falsify history. According to Medvedev, it is necessary to define more strictly the position of Russia in this problem, and to directly speak with its partners “on questions connected with the defense and glorification of those who are essentially criminals.” He believes that dialogue with those countries that defend and glorify Fascism needs to be done without careful diplomatic formulas.

In an interview to the Izvestiya newspaper, printed on May 7th, the President of the Russian Federation stated that “In Europe, in many countries, Fascists are being whitewashed. There are some stand-alone freaks even in our country that try to use Nazi symbols and hold various get-togethers under their slogans.”

Spokesperson of the Permanent Representation of Russia in the UN Ruslan Bakhtin said on the 9th of March in the UN headquarters, at the presentation of the “Holocaust in the USSR” encyclopedia, that Russia believes any attempt to glorify Nazi supporters, including the former legionaries of the “Waffen SS,” to be inadmissible. “Any state that is dedicated to the ideals of democracy and humanism must be intolerable to attempts to glorify supporters of Fascism, whether to the former legionaries of the Waffen SS or to any other collaboratives, who destroyed hundreds of thousands of peaceful citizens, prisoners of war, and prisoners of death camps.”

The Governor of Bryansk Oblast Nikolai Denin met with the leader of the Bryansk Oblast Jewish Community and Charity Center Chesed Tikvah Iryna Chernyak on International Holocaust Memorial Day. “My most sincere condolences. We will always religiously keep the memory of those who perished in the Second World War. We will do the best we can so that anti-Semitism and the falsification of history remain a thing of the past, forever,” Denin said. The meeting also included plans to strengthen interfaith relationships, as well as of the help of the local authorities to the Jewish community of Bryansk, and the contribution of the Chesed Tikvah center to the development of the social sphere and culture.

Mayor of Chitah Anatoliy Mikhalyov condemned the appearance of swastika pictures on the city streets at a press-conference on April 5. “I would very much like that the person who drew this symbol, not our entire people all over again, but this one person would live through what our fathers and grandfathers had to live through, that he would go through Buchenwald, go hungry, that he would see how the Fascists hung the elderly and the children... He would never take a paintbrush in his hands again,” the Mayor said. “If this is just a child's stupidity and hooliganism, that's one side of the coin,” the mayor noted about the swastikas on buildings and historic sites. “But if this is done consciously and purposefully, then it is utter vandalism. Even though modern textbooks only have half a page or so on the events of the Great Patriotic War, we must imprint this understanding on the younger generation ourselves,” Mikhalyov stated.

On April 8, members of the Ryazan Oblast Federal Bailiff Service were instructed by their higher echelon to restore a paint coat over swastika images found near their building.