On July 3, 2005, officers of the Severo-Vostok police department detained two young men who had staged a pogrom in a kosher shop on Trifonovskaya Street on June 30. One of the rioters, who turned out to be an employee of a supermarket located not far from a kosher store, was identified by an "SS" tattoo on his shoulder. The police, referring to the investigative measures, have so far refused to comment on the incident and name the criminals.

On July 7, Major General Vladimir Bykov, Head of the Federal Drug Control Service for the Kurgan Region, and Bishop Mikhail, Head of the Kurgan and Shadrin Diocese, signed a cooperation agreement.

On July 6, 2005, the Moscow City Court dismissed the protest of the public prosecutor T. Kondratyeva regarding the decision of the Timiryazevsky District Court against the well-known neo-Nazi Viktor Korchagin. Recall that on June 6, 2005, Korchagin was found guilty under Part 1 of Art.

Preview. June 2005 Introduction : Sanctions against organizations : Campaigning : Sanctions against media : Criminal prosecutions Introduction Almost three years have passed since the law "On counteracting extremist activity" came into force, and it is already possible to draw some conclusions.

On July 3, unknown vandals smeared paint on one of the tombstones at the fourth city cemetery in Cherepovets, CPV.ru reports . Witnesses to the crime could not be found. As follows from an article in the local newspaper Rech, the tombstone was first turned out of the ground, and then a swastika was drawn on the slab. On the fact of this crime, a criminal case was initiated under Art. 214 ("Vandalism").

On July 1, 2005, the SOVA Center held a workshop dedicated to discussing the possibility of improving the law "On Combating Extremist Activity" and related legislation - the Russian Criminal Code, laws on the media, public associations, etc. The seminar was attended by experts from a number of human rights organizations and government agencies.

Publicist Vladimir Golyshev, in the article "The Religious Revolution: How to Defeat the "Kremlin Mamai"?", published by the Political News Agency , suggests that the Russian Orthodox Church change the strategy of relations with the authorities and society - from ineffective cooperation with the elites and the struggle to secure "most favored nation treatment" to "work with the population" in the form of "an organization for people of 'islands of normal life', in which they are provided with

On July 7, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tatarstan circulated in the republican media an appeal to the population asking for help in the search for 22-year-old native of the Oktyabrsky district of the Perm region Venera Khazetdinov and 23-year-old native of the city of Usinsk of the Komi Republic Danil Gabdulkhakov. Both are called members of the Islamic Jamaat extremist community. The Ministry of Internal Affairs warns that those wanted may be in possession of firearms.