Law enforcement officials in Tambov, Russia have recorded three racist attacks in the region so far this year, according to an April 16, 2008 article in the local newspaper Naedine. In all three cases, prosecutors have brought hate crime charges, a rare deviation from the common practice of Russian law enforcement agencies to classify hate crimes as "hooliganism."

On February 7, three young men assaulted a Zambian student near a night club. Police detained two suspects and confirmed their membership in a neo-Nazi group. On February 29, a police officer spotted two Zambian students fleeing two assailants, one of them armed with a metal pipe, screaming "blacks out of Russia!" The officer detained one of the attackers, who admitted his membership in a neo-Nazi group. Finally, on March 25, a group of youths attacked two Armenian men while screaming the neo-Nazi slogan "Russia for Russians!" The attackers were dressed as neo-Nazis; police have detained an unspecified number of suspects.

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