on the wall of the Bookvoed bookstore, at the place where the name of Timur Kacharava (who was killed here on November 13 ) is written and where people bring flowers. At the beginning of December 2005 in St. Petersburg , a red swastika appeared M. Selezneva, correspondent of Novye Izvestia, reported this on December 8 in her article "Flowers and the Swastika". Sources Selezneva M. Flowers and swastika // New news. 2005. December 8.

The initiative of some Muslim figures of a more or less radical persuasion - to remove Christian symbols from the state emblem of Russia - caused a lot of responses (for an overview of events and responses, see the section "Religion in a Secular Society" ). Among them, Maxim Sokolov's article "The Mosque of Christ the Savior" in "Izvestia" dated December 8 stands out - it stands out, as is often the case with Sokolov, in the style of presentation.

On December 7, 2005, the trial of four residents of Verkhnyaya Pyshma, accused of killing three natives of Armenia, ended. The Sverdlovsk Regional Court sentenced two participants in the crime - Maxim Samofalov and Vladimir Sofronov (both born in 1986) to life imprisonment, Sergei Shakirzyanov (born in 1987) - to 10 years in prison, because. by the time the crime was committed, he was a minor, Evgeny Maksimov (born 1984) was sentenced to 23 years.

On December 8, the website Islam.Ru published "Appeal of the Muslim community to the Orthodox community: "Let's not sow the wind, let's have a peaceful dialogue!"". The reason was the conflict provoked by the publication of a book by the executive secretary of the Interreligious Council of Russia, Roman Silantyev.

On December 7, 2005, the Novosibirsk Regional Court decided to finally stop the prosecution of the leader of the Novosibirsk skinheads, Mikhail Rodoshkevich, due to his mental insanity. In March 2005, by a court decision in M. Rodoshkevich, he was sent for compulsory treatment to a psychiatric clinic after a psychiatric examination recorded a mental disorder in him. It should be reminded that the case of Novosibirsk skinheads has been going on since October 7, 2003.

On the evening of December 5, 2005, skinheads beat up a non-Slavic man in Moscow. The details of the incident are unknown. Responsibility for the beating was claimed by a neo-Nazi group involved in a series of attacks in the North-East of Moscow and in commuter trains. Based on right-wing Internet forums.

Deputies of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnoyarsk Territory applied to the territorial department for antimonopoly policy with a request to check the commercial of the Beeline company, in which the main characters are "mobile vampires". In an interview with Gazeta, MP Yuri Shvytkin, one of the signatories to the appeal, said: "We are being approached by voters - mostly believers - whose religious feelings are offended by this advertisement.

On December 7, 2005, the Tomsk city toponymy commission considered the appeal of the local diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church with a request to rename the streets of Tomsk, bearing the names of the "leaders of the red terror": Petr Voikov (formerly Znamenskaya), Bela Kun (this street did not exist before the revolution) and Alexei Belents ( former Podgorny Lane).

On November 23, 2005, Nadezhda Demeter and Alexander Bariev, leaders of the Federal National and Cultural Autonomy of the Roma of Russia, with consulting support from the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG) and the European Roma Rights Center (ERRC), filed a claim with the Ostankinsky District Court of Moscow for defense of honor and dignity against the editor-in-chief of the NTV television company, demanding to recognize as inciting national hatred some statements that were voiced in the TV program

Sanctions against organizations : Election Campaigning : Sanctions against media : Judicial ban on extremist materials : Criminal prosecutions : Conclusions It has been three years since the enactment of the Federal Law on Combating Extremist Activity (hereinafter - the 2002 Law), and the initial experience of its application can be summarized. The definition of extremist activity obviously relates to certain legal provisions, which are not directly mentioned to in the said law.