On November 12-13, 2005, the conference "Overcoming Sexism, Xenophobia and Racism in Russia: Searching for Effective NGO Strategies" was held in Voronezh . Conference organizers - "Foundation for Environmental and Social Justice", "Samara Center for Gender Studies" with the support of the Foundation. Heinrich Bell. The meetings were attended by representatives of non-governmental organizations from Rostov, Ryazan, Krasnodar, Moscow, Voronezh, Vladimir, Samara. Inc. inf.

On November 15, during a press conference at the central office of Interfax, Executive Secretary of the Interreligious Council of Russia Roman Silantiev, answering the questions of those present, said that the MSR is not going to include representatives of Protestant organizations in its membership yet. "Firstly," he noted, "the Interreligious Council adopted a scheme in which each religion is represented by one religious movement - for example, Islam is represented there only by Sunnis.

On November 1, 2005, a criminal case was initiated in the Vladimir region on the fact of the distribution of anti-Semitic leaflets directed against one of the candidates for the post of head of the Vyaznikovsky district of the region. The case was initiated under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“incitement of national and religious hatred”).

In the court of the Leninsky district of Tambov, a trial is underway in the case of an attack on students from Guinea that occurred in early 2005. The trial has been going on since May. It is known that the motive of national hatred appears in the charge brought against the defendants (and there are several of them).

On November 1, 2005, the Yantarny Karavan newspaper (Kaliningrad Region) published a short article about countering skinheads in the region. The article notes that in recent years, radical nationalists in the region have become less active: the local RNU cell collapsed several years ago, there are no other organizations in the region except for skinhead groups, which "appear" infrequently. Last but not least, according to the correspondent, this is the merit of the local special services.

On November 14, 2005, the Moscow City Duma held parliamentary hearings on the topic "The need to amend the legislation of the city of Moscow in terms of holding rallies, marches and demonstrations." The reason for holding the hearings was the "Russian March" , held on November 4 in Moscow by right-wing radical organizations.

On November 15, the Arbitration Court of the Perm Region began preliminary hearings on the lawsuit filed by the local diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church against the RF Ministry of Defense. The diocese demands the return of the building, which until 1917 housed a theological seminary, and in Soviet times - the Perm Higher Military Command and Engineering School (PVVKIU). In 2003 the school was disbanded.

On November 15, speaking at a press conference at the central office of Interfax , the head of the DECR MP, Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad Kirill, said that Lenin's body must be buried: "Lenin must be buried, because the idea of ​​mummification is outside of any cultural and religious context in Russia ".

The Council of Muftis of Russia believes that the pre-election video of the Rodina party incites interethnic and interreligious hatred in the country. This was announced on the air of the TVC channel by the deputy head of the RMC Damir Gizatullin. As the website Islam.Ru notes , "representatives of the country's Orthodox and Jewish communities also spoke out against such "advertising" of Motherland." Sources Muslims oppose Motherland commercial // Islam.Ru. 2005. November 14.

*We publish the expert opinion of the head of the Department of Constitutional and Municipal Law of the Faculty of Law of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov, Doctor of Law, Professor, Honored Worker of Science of the Russian Federation S.A. Avakyan on the Law of the Krasnodar Territory of July 2, 2004 No. 735-KZ "On measures to prevent illegal migration to the Krasnodar Territory" and a number of other documents adopted to ensure it.

On November 11, 2005, the Levada Center published the results of a study conducted in August 2005, “The attitude of Russians towards people of other nationalities” (apparently, the same survey about which Boris Dubin said back in September 2005 that “the level of xenophobia in Russia has never been so high." The survey involved 1,880 Russians in 128 settlements in 46 regions of the country. When publishing the results, data from similar surveys in previous years were simultaneously presented.

In autumn 2005, skinheads attacked Artashes Milkonyan in Tolyatti. The victim died from his wounds in the hospital. In November 2005 a criminal case was initiated. The attackers, members of the teenage extremist criminal group "Pitbull", were detained. On September 18, 2006, the Federal Court of the Central District of Togliatti sentenced three skinheads for murder. In mid-October 2006, the verdict entered into force.

On November 14, at around 10:30 p.m., an explosion occurred in an Orthodox chapel built near the memorial to fallen soldiers in the village of Krasny Kholm, Vyazemsky district, Smolensk region. As a result of the explosion, the chapel was seriously damaged, and damage was also caused to the structures located next to it.

Unlike a number of regions, the Orenburg region is characterized by low activity of skinheads and right-wing radicals. According to Oksana Sobchenko, head of the department of the regional council of the Russian Youth Union, Orenburg is a calm city in this respect: "There is no active movement among skinheads, Nazis in our region . " An illustration of this fact is the action to paint over fascist symbols, organized in Orenburg on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Victory.

organization International Religious Freedom Watch, Lawrence Yuzzell, head of the public draws attention to the fact that Russian local officials often refuse to allocate land plots for the construction of religious buildings to Baptist communities, and also do not allow them to rent halls in cinemas and cultural centers. Due to the impossibility of finding premises in Moscow alone, 10 Baptist communities actually ceased to exist. According to L.