On December 1, 2005, one of the activists of the Old Believer community of Cheboksary, A.F. Votyakova turned to the President of Chuvashia N.V. Fedorov with a request to give the Old Believers, since they have nowhere to pray, one of the Cheboksary churches - "at least the smallest one on K. Ivanov street, house 13." The answer came not from the republican administration, but from the local diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, which owns the mentioned temple.

Izvestia reports that a council is being created under the administration of the Ulyanovsk region, whose members will decide whether the activities of healers, various kinds of occultists and "sectarians" harm the inhabitants of the region, and, if necessary, ban the relevant organizations with the help of the prosecutor's office.

The Sergiev Posad Court began hearings on the case of the attack on the head of the local Muslim community, Arslan Sadriev, on October 14, 2005. According to Islam.ru , "two of the most active raiders were on trial - sales manager Denis Tverdov and Mikhail, previously convicted of hooliganism Ilyukhin: The young people were taken into custody on October 16 and 22, although after the immediate arrest on October 14, all the attackers were released.

On January 26, the Islam-Info news agency , citing the head of the information department of the DUM of Karelia, Fatima Weber, reported that the republican prosecutor's office refused to initiate a criminal case against the publishing houses Vse and Iz ruka v ruki in connection with the publication of advertisements in advertising newspapers, which local Muslims considered xenophobic.

The TV program "Russian House" after a long break returns to the air, Russkaya Line reports with reference to the apparatus of the deputy of the State Duma A.N. Krutov - the invariable presenter of the program. Now "Russian House" will be aired on the public Orthodox TV channel "Spas". Sources "Russian House" is back on the air! After a long break, the program of A.N. Krutov returned to television ... // Russian line. 2006. January 26.

This article is a substantially updated version of the working material prepared for a seminar on the problems of "anti-extremist" legislation, which the SOVA Center held on July 1, 2005. The article was published in the book "The Price of Hate. Nationalism in Russia and Counteracting Racist Crimes". M., 2005.

*We are publishing a statement by a number of NGOs on the situation that has developed as a result of the so-called. "spy scandal". The statement has already been signed by many representatives of organizations, including the SOVA Center, and individual citizens. The list of signatures is already available on the Human Rights in Russia portal.

In with. Verkhazovka, Dergachevsky District, Saratov Region, Imam of the local mosque Rinat Alimov was elected head of the village administration. According to Islam.ru , "Rinat Alimov, a graduate of the Ulyanovsk madrasah, has been working as an imam-hatib in Verkhazovka over the past few years, being also a representative of the DUMP in several districts of the region. organizations. R.

On the night of January 24, 2006, in the city of Ukhta (Komi Republic), an attack was made on the local city committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. Unknown people broke windows, painted walls and doors with swastikas, and tore down signs. A criminal case under the article "hooliganism" was opened on the fact of the attack. “Naturally, we are considering other versions, but we believe that there is no serious ground for youth extremism in Ukhta.

On January 24, 2006, a rastaman was attacked in Khimki near Moscow. The beating was committed by a group of skinheads involved in a series of beatings of informals and in a racist attack on an electric train in the Kursk direction in November 2005. The Rastaman sustained head and facial injuries. According to right-wing forums.

On January 26, 2006, the Collegium for Criminal Cases of the court of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug (KhMAO), having considered a cassation appeal , upheld the sentences of five skinheads convicted of murdering foreign citizens. Let us remind you that the Surgut city court passed a guilty verdict on five skinheads, appointing them terms of imprisonment from 8.5 to 9 years.

In St. Petersburg, an investigation into the murder of Congolese student Roland Franza Epassac (September 2005) was completed. Recall that four St. Petersburg residents aged 17-23 are accused in the case. According to the prosecutor of St. Petersburg Sergey Zaitsev, the final charge was brought under Art. 105 part 2, paragraphs "g" and "l" (murder committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy, motivated by national hatred).

On January 25, 2006, a criminal case was initiated in St. Petersburg on the fact of beating a student from India on January 11, 2006. The case was initiated under article 116 part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (beatings). In parallel, an official check is being carried out in the Petrogradsky District Department of Internal Affairs on the fact of a delay in information in one of the police departments.

On January 11, 2006, a 25-year-old student of the St. Petersburg Medical Academy, a native of India, was beaten up in the Petrogradsky district of St. Petersburg.

At the end of January 2006, in Nizhny Novgorod, near a hostel for foreign students, a 26-year-old black student of the Nizhny Novgorod Institute of Architecture and Civil Engineering, a citizen of the Republic of Botswana, was attacked. Three unknown people attacked the foreigner and started beating him. The beating was tried to stop by a passer-by who managed to drive away the attackers. However, then they again caught up with the victim at the porch of the hostel and continued beating.