Legislation against hate crimes and hate speech is usually discussed together, since the relationship between the two types of illegal activity is obvious, but it is very important to distinguish between them. Firstly, because of the generally recognized varying degrees of public danger, and secondly, because when suppressing hate propaganda, there is a risk of excessive restriction of freedom of speech. Alas, such a distinction is not always made.

Well-known human rights activist Alexander Daniel discusses the possibility of dialogue on the problems of freedom of conscience and public policy between bearers of religious (in particular, Orthodox) and secular, “liberal” consciousness.

The Moscow Patriarchate, within the framework of the first International Festival of Orthodox Media, intends to hold the action "The Primordial Meaning of the Word" in the capital: 34 outdoor billboards and 170 billboards will be placed within two weeks of posters, the authors of which tried to return common advertising phrases and images to their original biblical meaning. .

The Institute of Religion and Politics held a "round table" in Moscow, at which issues of combating "Islamic extremism" were discussed. One of the participants, the well-known Islamic scholar Leonid Sukiyainen, said that the Muslim world must be included in the process of globalization, but not by abandoning Muslims from their values.

Georgy Engelgardt, an employee of the Institute of Religion and Politics, examines the experience of fighting "Islamic extremism" in different countries and draws conclusions about possible ways in which Russian Muslim leaders and associations can participate in countering terrorism. In his opinion, it is precisely the active involvement of "Islamic structures in Russia" in the fight against extremism that is "the most productive line." Their participation, emphasizes G.

The candidate for governor of the Volgograd region, Yevgeny Golubyatnikov, leader of the LDPR faction of the Regional Duma, released an election poster with the text "This is not the Caucasus!". Reproducing this poster: On November 11, 2004, Pravda Volgograd published a message about a joint statement by a number of Volgograd public organizations accusing Yevgeny Golubyatnikov, a candidate for governor of the Volgograd society, of inciting ethnic hatred. Sources Shtykov F.

The leaders of the Volgograd regional society of Chechens "Bart-Consent", the Volgograd regional branch of the public organization "All-Russian Azerbaijani Congress", the Volgograd city public organization "Armenian Diaspora", the Volgograd public organization "Armenian community", the Volgograd regional organization "Dagestan" issued a joint statement, in which gubernatorial candidate Yevgeny Golubyatnikov, the leader of the LDPR faction of the Regional Duma, was accused of inciting ethnic

On November 10, 2004, in Moscow, at the entrance to the Russian Research and Education Center and the Holocaust Foundation, a picture appeared: a six-pointed swastika star and the inscription "The Holocaust is a great fraud." On the end of the building is written: "Jew and Chechen - brothers forever." The inscriptions appeared on the eve of the round table "Teaching the Holocaust in Russia in the 21st century", dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Israeli museum "Yad Vashem", which took

In Voronezh, the local Cossacks held a picket against the construction of a shopping and entertainment center on the territory of the former Novomitrofanovsky cemetery. In Soviet times, a park was laid out here and a dance floor was set up, and a circus building was erected on the site of the demolished temple. Now they are starting to build a shopping center on one of the adjacent plots. The Cossacks claim that it will literally stand on human bones.

Residents of Irkutsk can now sell their souls: one of the Internet sites offers money for them. The minimum price is one dollar. The money can be picked up in two weeks, but where and when exactly is not reported. The number of site visitors reached 13 thousand people. The police are calm about what is happening, since the purchase and sale of the soul is not a crime from the point of view of the criminal code.

Professor of the Institute of System Analysis of the Russian Academy of Sciences Pyotr Khomyakov, a radical nationalist (published in the Attack magazine by Sergei Zharikov), candidate for the State Duma in the 199th electoral district of Moscow, joins the Rodina party. Among V. Khomyakov's pre-election theses are "Caucasus is not Russia! They do not love by force" and "Divorce and separate life is the way to our Freedom!". On November 10, 2004, in an interview with the Pravda newspaper, P.

continues The investigation into the fight that took place in September at the Priargun secondary school . As of November 12, 2004, four participants in the brawl were detained, three of them are in custody, one of them gave a written undertaking not to leave. The investigation team was headed by the investigator for especially important cases of the investigative department at the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Chita Region Maxim Solovov.

anti-Islamic" policy of the authorities in the region on November 10 at a press conference Mufti Shafig Pshikhachev, deputy chairman of the Coordinating Center for Muslims of the North Caucasus, who returned from a trip to North Ossetia, Kabardino-Balkaria and Adzharia, spoke about the " on the activities of the organization "Khak-Justice". He developed some points of his speech in an interview with the Blagovest-info agency. According to Sh.

In early November, the prosecutor's office of the Khanty-Mansiysk District combined four criminal cases from the "skinheads" series into one. The last criminal case was initiated on September 24, after five young people beat up a native of Azerbaijan. Skinheads managed to be detained.