On January 22, 2006, the first plenary meeting of the Public Chamber, consisting of 126 people, was held in the St. George Hall of the Moscow Kremlin. Russian President Vladimir Putin attended the meeting as a guest. At the meeting, chairmen of the Public Chamber commissions were elected by open voting.

On January 23, 2006, Oleg Kashin's operational commentary on the "spy scandal" appeared on the Civil Club website . The commentary is titled "Thanks to the FSB and the Rossiya TV channel" and has the subtitle "In pursuit of PR, the special services and television dealt a blow to the country's reputation." Obviously, writes O. Kashin, "the main characters of the scandal are Russian citizens, the very human rights activists who financed the British were 'caught red-handed'" .

On January 22, 2006, a rally was held in Moscow, the formal reason for which was the decision to erect a monument to Heydar Aliyev in Moscow. DPNI took an active part in the preparation of the rally. The rally was not allowed by the Moscow authorities, so it was held as a "descent of local residents", without flags and banners. Despite this, only about half of the participants in the event (about a hundred people out of two hundred) were local residents.

On January 23, 2006, the newspaper "Kommersant" published an article by Andrey Illarionov, former adviser to the President of Russia on economic issues, "Another Country". The current leadership of the country, A. Illarionov believes, has made a choice in favor of a corporatist state. Today's Russian state has become corporatist, the author argues. Ownership of the Russian state passed into the hands of a corporation not controlled by its nominal owners - citizens of Russia.

In January 2006, we asked the experts of the Democracy Barometer to name the events of the year that had the greatest impact on the situation in the country. According to the general opinion of experts, the most important event of the year was [the trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the events around the Yukos company - 8 mentions, 34 points. The second most significant event was the adoption of the draft law on NGOs - 5 mentions, 19 points.

On January 23, 2006, the Department for the Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the St. Petersburg Prosecutor's Office completed the investigation and transferred to the St. Petersburg City Court a criminal case on the murder of a Vietnamese student Vu Anh Tuan. The prosecutor's office of St. Petersburg brought 17 people to criminal liability. 14 of them were charged with murder committed by a group of people motivated by ethnic hatred.

On January 21, 2006, in Kaluga, unknown persons, according to members of the National Bolshevik Party - activists of the "Nashi" movement, attacked a picket to distribute the newspaper "General Line". A group of 10-15 young people appeared at the picket site and unloaded a wooden toilet from the Gazelle. Young people took out the old issues of "Limonka" and began to tear them up and throw them into the toilet, while chanting "Limonov to prison!" And so on.

On January 21, 2006, Leonid Roshal, a member of the Council of Elders of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, called the adoption of the law on NGOs a political mistake. "Members of the Civic Chamber, on their own initiative, took part in the discussion of the law, but there was no single consolidated opinion, since the chamber was not fully formed ," said L. Roshal.

On January 22, the Interfax-religion portal published an interview with Rinat Raev, the rector of the Russian Islamic University in Ufa, who was elected in December 2005 as the mufti of the regional Muslim Spiritual Muslim Boards of the Chelyabinsk and Kurgan regions. According to R. Raev, "The Kurgan region showed all Muslims of Russia an example of how the unification of Muslims should take place. Until recently, the SAM of the region included only four parishes.

January 12, 2006. On January 20, 2006, the newspaper "Moskovsky Komsomolets" published an article by Valery Losev "Excuses for the Nazis. Double standards as incitement", in which Alexander Koptsev, who attacked a Moscow synagogue on The author of the article puts an equal sign between A.

On January 21, 2006, the Rossiya TV channel aired the Special Correspondent program (authored by Arkady Mamontov), ​​which told how the Russian Federal Security Service neutralized a group of British spies.

On November 5, 2005, the Vesti-Vladivostok TV program of the Primorsky branch of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company reported on the celebration of a new state holiday in the city. Primortsy, and after them, albeit with great delay, and we, learned that "the fourth of November has already become a symbol of the national idea - a symbol of victorious Russian Orthodoxy, crushing Western Catholicism .

On January 14-15, 2006, the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM) conducted a survey to find out how well Russian citizens are informed about the Public Chamber. 60% of the respondents are aware of the existence of the Public Chamber to some extent, including 11% say that they are well informed about its creation, and 49% have heard something about it. 37% indicate that they do not know anything about the Public Chamber at all.

The Union of Orthodox Citizens issued a statement regarding Ali Vyacheslav Polosin's book "The Gospel Through the Eyes of a Muslim", a member of the presidium of the Russian Islamic Heritage public movement, which was presented by the author himself on January 16 in Kazan.

As part of the campaign against NGOs launched by the "spy scandal" after the program " Special Correspondent" on the channel "Russia", the portal KM.Ru on January 23, 2006 published the material "British spies collaborated with Russian non-governmental organizations." According to the authors of this article, "the revealed facts can be considered proven twice. Firstly, by the work of the Russian special services, and secondly, by the general logic of events taking place in Russian politics.