On January 31, 2006, a session of the Novosibirsk Regional Court took place in the case of the skinhead group "Skin Brotherhood". Prosecutor Vasily Musatkin said that he considered the guilt of the defendants in inciting ethnic hatred and committing robberies against natives of the southern republics proven. He demanded to determine the terms of punishment for the defendants - from five to ten years in prison, depending on the degree of guilt of each.

bail of 100,000 rubles. On January 30, 2006, the Ozersky District Court of the Moscow Region released Alexander Barkashov, leader of the Russian National Unity (RNU) movement, who was detained on December 2, 2005 for assaulting a policeman, on During the meeting, the issue of extending the period of detention of the accused in custody was decided .

On January 31, 2006, it became known that Vadim Domnitsky, who attempted to attack a synagogue in Rostov-on-Don, was sent for a forensic psychological and psychiatric examination to Moscow, to the Institute of Social and Forensic Psychiatry. Serbian. This was reported in the prosecutor's office of the Kirovsky district of Rostov-on-Don. It is expected that the results of the examination will be known at the end of February 2006.

In the winter of 2006, in Nizhny Novgorod, skinheads beat up a teenager of "non-Slavic appearance" (the victim's mother is an ethnic Tajik, his father is an ethnic Russian). The details of the incident are unknown. The incident became known in July 2006. One of the attackers was soon arrested and convicted. Sources Ordinary ... Nazism?! // Prospect (Nizhny Novgorod). 2006. 11 July.

On January 31, 2006, the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation Vladimir Lukin and the head of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for promoting the development of civil society institutions and human rights Ella Pamfilova sent a letter to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Vladimir Ustinov, the Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Lebedev and the Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika, which

The National News Agency reports that the Orthodox public organization "People's Protection" appealed to the President and the State Duma of the Russian Federation with a call to protect religious shrines and sacred symbols from desecration and stop "the flow of lewdness from TV screens, exhibition halls and store shelves" (copies of the letter were also sent to Government, the Prosecutor General's Office and the Ministry of Culture and Mass Communications).

In Nizhny Novgorod, on charges of attacking a teenager of non-Slavic appearance in the winter of 2006, a minor student of one of the city colleges Dmitry Ivanov, a member of one of the local skin groups, was detained. Neither the accused nor his mother denied the nationalistic nature of the crime (the young man not only brought neo-Nazi literature into the house, but also introduced his younger brother to it).

On January 31, during a press conference, President Putin, answering one of the questions, said: "Of course, people, especially when faced with the problems of Wahhabism, with its worst manifestations - because Wahhabism in itself does not pose any threat, but the perversion of norms Islam, a perversion of Wahhabism, they, of course, cannot be interpreted in any other way than calls for terrorism.

On January 28, 2006 in Saratov, in the premises of the youth Tatar organization "Sarytau", a round table was held on the topic "Interethnic relations among the youth." The meeting was attended by representatives of youth national communities, leaders of youth and children's public associations. In total, about 20 people were present, Tatar, Russian, Bashkir, Polish, German communities were represented.

On January 31, 2006, Vladimir Silaev, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Komi, commenting on the statement of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, noted that the law enforcement agencies of the republic were determined to suppress any manifestations of extremism. As V. Silaev pointed out, in Komi there are separate facts of manifestations of intolerance. “It has already become a kind of crooked fashion to paint swastikas on walls, organize pogroms.

On January 31, 2006, at a press conference in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin, answering a journalist's question, said that "courts, prosecutors, law enforcement agencies" should adequately respond, in accordance with the law, to manifestations of neo-Nazism.

On January 31, the Ulyanovsk Regional Court sentenced eight members of the local Jamaat organization, who were accused of robbery, kidnapping and murder (recall, the jury found them guilty back in December 2005). As Interfax-religion reports with reference to the senior assistant to the regional prosecutor Vasily Zima, “seven defendants were sentenced to 10 to 22 years in prison with a sentence to be served in a strict regime colony.

On January 30, 2006, a 24-year-old 5th year student of the academy, a citizen of Uganda, was attacked near the building of the St. Petersburg Medical Academy. Two of the three attackers beat the African for several minutes, after which they fled the scene. According to the victim, the attackers were about 16 years old, had short hair and were dressed in black clothes and high boots. The victim is in the hospital.

The deputies of the Pskov City Duma decided to transfer two buildings in the center of Pskov to the convent of the Savior and Eleazar for free use. Both of them are architectural monuments, one is of federal, the second is of regional significance. In the 19th century Here was the monastery courtyard. Mother Superior Elizabeth intends to restore the buildings and open a shelter there for children and the elderly.