Immediately following the upsurge in anti-immigrant hate and violence in Moscow’s Biryulevo Zapadnoe district in October 2013, the federal government of the Russian Federation enacted a new ethnic relations law, the first of its kind in over half a century. Xenophobia is commonly defined as the intense or irrational dislike or fear of strangers or foreigners or of that which is strange or foreign. Naturally, the conception of what constitutes “strange” or “foreign” is subject to the individual or group which fears another. Because of this, xenophobia may often be taken for racism or ethnic hatred, and in some cases, the distinctions between them are virtually imperceptible. The fear of the other is a multifaceted issue, and it concerns social, political, and economic spheres. This is particularly the case in the Russian Federation, where policy makers and citizens alike have linked this fear to current immigration trends and policy in Russia. First and foremost, this paper is a quantitative analysis of the problem of xenophobia in Russia. It seeks to elucidate the issue further via two types of analysis. The first is a linear analysis of the prevalence of xenophobic attacks in the Russian Federation, as distributed temporally, geospatially, and across victim groups; in it, I will conclude that xenophobic attacks in Russia do not vary significantly across geographic area or time, though they do vary significantly across victim groups. The second is a network analysis of radical nationalist groups in Russia; the analysis focuses on categorical data of each nationalist group, so as to assess how these groups are affiliated. These affiliation networks concern geographic area (of operation and influence), organization structure, area of focus or audience, media type, symbols and thematic appeal, and year of establishment. This paper is a preliminary set of analyses that will be nested in a larger set of quantitative and qualitative analyses on xenophobia and xenophobic violence in Russia.