On December 22, 2005, police in Chelyabinsk detained Aleksey Tabalov, deputy chairman of the regional branch of the Yabloko party. A candidate for deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Chelyabinsk region was detained for posting a campaign sticker of the Yabloko party: a policeman regarded the slogan "Beat the bureaucrat with an apple wedge!" illegal. The detainee was taken to the Central District Department of Internal Affairs of Chelyabinsk, where he was kept for an hour and a half.

On December 23, 2005, the State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted in the third and final reading a law toughening the activities of NGOs. The document determines that after the entry into force of the law, public organizations will not have to undergo re-registration. For representative offices and branches of foreign NCOs there will be a general notification nature and procedure for registration with a single registration authority.

On December 23, Bishop Feofan (Ashurkov) of Stavropol and Vladikavkaz and Nikolai Derzhavin, executive director of the Family Traditions Foundation, were elected to the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation (he ran for the State Duma in 2003 on the list of the People 's Party as an assistant to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II) . Recall that earlier the head of the Saratov diocese entered the Public Chamber. Sources Bishop Feofan and N.I.

In the early morning of December 9, 2005, employees of the Yaroslavl Dzerzhinsky District Department of Internal Affairs attempted to break into the apartment of the Yaroslavl anarchist Dmitry G. and talk to "the leader of the Yaroslavl anti-globalists, who works in 71 schools." On the same day, former anarchist Anton Dymov was invited to the Dzerzhinsky District Department of Internal Affairs. A.

The priest of the Chita diocese, Sergiy Taratokhin, is deprived of access to the YaG 14/10 colony in Krasnokamensk, which he used to visit weekly. The leadership of the colony refers to the absence of an agreement with the priest, but there is an agreement between the UIN of the region and the diocese. Earlier, the priest stated that he considers M. Khodorkovsky held in this colony a political prisoner.

Voskobitova Maria, lawyer of the Center for the Promotion of International Protection The European Court is a mechanism for the protection of human rights and freedoms, created on the basis of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (hereinafter referred to as the Convention). Individuals and organizations may apply to this body with complaints about violations of the rights and freedoms protected by the Convention.

On December 22, 2005, Dmitry Rogozin, leader of the Rodina party, was suspended from filming the Judge Yourself program on Channel One at the last moment. According to D. Rogozin himself, five minutes before the start of the broadcast at the entrance to the studio, Rogozin was told that his participation in the program was "undesirable". Rogozin is sure that in October the authorities imposed a ban on his appearance on the air of federal channels.

At the end of December 2005, the speaker of the Federation Council, Sergei Mironov, announced the creation of a special commission on nationalities on the basis of the upper house of the Federal Assembly. The idea has already been approved by President V. Putin. S.

At the end of December 2005, the Children of the City Foundation in St. Petersburg completed a four-month survey of schoolchildren of "different nationalities" about how they feel in the northern capital. In quotes from children's writings, among other things, manifestations of xenophobia are also recorded: “When I arrived in St. Petersburg, I did not speak Russian at all. Once my mother asked me to go to the store. I asked the saleswoman what I wanted to buy.

On December 22, 2005, before the consideration of the law on NGOs in the third reading , an expert from the Institute of Human Rights and the Institute "Public Expertise" Lev Levinson commented on the text of the bill, adopted by the State Duma in the second reading.

We publish the text of the response of the prosecutor's office of Moscow dated December 12, 2005 regarding the "right march" conducted by the coalition of right -winging organizations on November 4, 2005 The Moscow prosecutor's office did not find signs of exciting national hatred in the materials presented to it. Due to the low quality of a copy of the text at our disposal, we bring it in GIF format. Also, a GIF document can be downloaded here (Winzip is packed).

Svetlana Kovaleva, Demos Center Fascists and anti-fascists was held in Moscow On November 4, a march of right-wing radical organizations , authorized by the Moscow government at the request of the Eurasian Youth Union and a "group of private individuals." About three thousand people took part in the procession (a significant part of the extras were skinheads and representatives of the DPNI). The reaction to the march was anti-fascist protests in Moscow and the regions.

The Union of Orthodox Citizens issued a statement regarding publications in the media that touch upon the problems of Orthodox-Muslim relations. Members of the SPG fear that holding Orthodox-Muslim disputes could be used "to foment an inter-confessional conflict in which anti-Russian forces are interested." “The Union of Orthodox Citizens has decided not to participate in those events that can be used to incite inter-religious hatred harmful to Russia,” the statement says.

The end of 2005 was marked by two convictions in high-profile skinhead gang cases in St. Petersburg. Following the murder, in 2004, of Nikolai Girenko - an academic known for his opposition to neo-Nazi - and threats against Governor Valentina Matviyenko, the city's law enforcement voiced their commitment to investigate crimes by neo-Nazi skinhead gangs.

On December 23, 2005, the online magazine Novaya Politika published an article by Aleksey Kiva titled "Human Rights Defenders and the Fifth Column" timed to coincide with the final reading of the bill on NGOs in the State Duma. According to A. Kiva, the problem that prompted the Russian authorities to raise the issue of NGOs is as follows: “If there is a political component in the activities of NGOs, then, firstly, they must register in accordance with the requirements for such organizations.