RF Residents Most Likely to Become Victims of Crime in Siberia and Far East and Least Likely in Moscow and North Caucasus, ‘To Be Precise’ Says

Paul Goble

            Staunton, July 30 – Again in 2024 as in recent years, the federal subjects where residents are most likely to become victims of crime ae in Siberia and the Russian Far East and those where they are least likely to are the city of Moscow and the republics of the North Caucasus, according to an investigation by the To Be Precise portal.

            This pattern reflects the number of victims of violent crime per 100,000 residents, and a major reason for this pattern is that such crimes are more likely to be reported in places with relatively small populations like east of the Urals or in those like the North Caucasus where many people do not report such crimes, the portal says (tochno.st/materials/gde-v-rossii-bezopasnee-vsego-zit-reiting-prestupnosti-ot-esli-byt-tocnym).

            But they also reflect differences in the level of alcohol consumption and in the amount of poverty. Where those are both high, as in Tyva, the numbers of violent crimes are high; where they are both low, as in Moscow, these figures are typically much lower, the investigative portal continues.

            There are some anomalies, the portal says. The city of St. Petersburg which is relatively well off and where alcohol consumption is not as high as in many other places, violent crime last year was four times more per capita than in Dagestan, an impoverished republic in the North Caucasus.