Director of the Department of External Relations of the Ministry of Culture and Mass Communications of Russia Andrey Vulf, commenting on the initiative of the State Duma to amend the law "On counteracting extremist activity", said that the Ministry of Culture supports this initiative and "within its powers, intends to firmly oppose all attempts to use the media, including including those operating on the Internet, for inciting interethnic and interreligious hatred..." . At the same time, A.

As an exception, we publish from the 92nd issue of the bulletin of non-governmental organizations "Law-making process in the State Duma: human rights analysis" Lev Levinson's article "State regulation of private life", dedicated to the law on NGOs published yesterday by "Rossiyskaya Gazeta".

On January 18, during a meeting with representatives of religious organizations, the head of the Moscow police department, Vladimir Pronin, announced the readiness of the Moscow police to protect the capital's religious institutions within two months. Now divine services are held in 631 buildings of the city. "Within two months from the moment representatives of confessions approached us, the Moscow police are ready to guard all these places of worship," V. Pronin said.

On January 18, 2006, the Nikulinsky Court of Moscow found NBP activist Sergei Reznichenko, who, according to investigators, bit a guard, guilty under Art. 318 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“use of violence against a representative of the authorities”) and sentenced him to 3 years in prison. S. Reznichenko has already been sentenced in the case of seizing the public reception office of the president: 3 years in a general regime colony.

Minister of Internal Affairs of Karachay-Cherkessia Nikolai Osyak said that 341 adherents of "Wahhabism" are registered with the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic. "The work to identify adherents of extremist religious movements in the republic was intensified. During 2005, 80 adherents of Wahhabism were identified and registered on the territory of Karachay-Cherkessia.

Muslims of the Nizhny Novgorod region are protesting against the use of religious symbols in the materials of Nikolai Pyrkov, a candidate for the regional Legislative Assembly, chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Consumer Union. On campaign posters, the candidate is depicted against the backdrop of a mosque. Muslims found it offensive that Muslim symbols were used by a person who helped open wine and vodka departments in rural shops.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation overturned the acquittal against Ravil Gumarov and Timur Ishmuratov, former prisoners of Guantanamo, who were accused of blowing up a gas pipeline in Bugulma and were found not guilty . Heydar Dzhemal, chairman of the Islamic Committee of Russia, believes that the reason for the cancellation of the acquittal is the stay of R. Gumarov and T.

On January 16, 2006, the activities of two foreign non-governmental organizations engaged in providing assistance to Chechnya and Chechen refugees were banned in Ingushetia. According to a statement on the website of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Ingusheniya granted the claims of the prosecutor's office to ban the activities of these organizations due to the lack of the necessary permission.

Presidential Commissioner of Karachay-Cherkessia for Relations with Religious Organizations Yevgeny Kratov held a press conference during which he spoke about the religious situation in the region. According to him, 185 religious associations of 15 confessions operate on the territory of the republic.

On January 18, 2006, in Birobidzhan (Jewish Autonomous Region), a swastika and an anti-Semitic inscription drawn in black chalk were found on a kiosk located next to secondary school No. 5. Upon the discovery of a swastika, an inspection will be carried out at the Internal Affairs Directorate of the EAO. Sources A swastika was painted on a kiosk in Birobidzhan // IA Regnum.ru. 2006. January 18.

On January 18, 2006, at trial of the Stanislav Dmitrievsky, editor-in-chief of the Pravo-Zashchita newspaper, the prosecution demanded that he be sentenced to 4 years' imprisonment in a penal colony. The prosecutor's office demands that the editor-in-chief be found guilty of committing a crime under paragraph "b" of part 2 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("incitement of hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity").

The Committee on Economic Policy and Taxes of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia has postponed the adoption of the bill on the transfer of the building of the Winter Hotel to the Valaam Monastery. Representatives of the Ministry of State Property and the Ministry of Culture of Karelia, who traveled to Valaam for a detailed acquaintance with the problem, reported on the trip.

January 10, 2006 N 18-FZ "On Amending Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation", adopted On January 10, 2006, President Putin signed, and on January 17, 2006 Rossiyskaya Gazeta published the Federal Law of the Russian Federation of by the Duma of the Russian Federation on December 23, 2005 and approved by the Federation Council on December 27, 2005. The law will enter into force 90 days after its official publication.

On January 16, 2006, LDPR member Vitaly Shilevoy held an individual picket of the Gorno-Altaisk mayor's office to protest against the increase in housing and communal services tariffs. The picketer was detained by the police.

At the beginning of January 2006, the criminal case under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (presumably part 2) in relation to the editor-in-chief of the Russkaya Pravda publishing group A.M. Aratov and the President of the Russian National Human Rights Section of the International Society for Human Rights (RNPS ISHR) V.S. Baryshenko. Criminal case No. 552 was terminated "due to the lack of corpus delicti" 4 years ago. D. O.