At the end of January 2005, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Samara satisfied the claim of the editor of Volzhskaya Zarya, Alexander Muratov, against the Volga Region Department of the Federal Service for Supervision of Compliance with Legislation in the Sphere of Mass Communications and the Protection of Cultural Heritage (Rosokhrakultura) and declared the warning about inciting ethnic hatred illegal issued to the publication. According to the complainant, the warning issued restricts Mr.

On January 26, the Nizhny Novgorod newspaper Novoe Delo published an interview with Yury Lisenkov, director of the sparkling wine factory. He commented on some public statements by the DUM of the Nizhny Novgorod region, which, as the newspaper wrote, "supposedly reflected the mood of Nizhny Novgorod Muslims in form, but in fact looked like a provocation." The said publication stated that "his (i.e. DUM. - Ed.

On January 31, a five-day action of Orthodox believers began in Vladivostok in support of the construction of a cathedral on the city's Ship Embankment - on the very site that sparked a conflict between the Vladivostok firm "Ekten" and the local diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church (although in August 2005 the Arbitration Court of Primorsky the region did not recognize the company's rights to this site, the dispute has not yet been finally resolved).

Petersburg City Court began preliminary hearings on the criminal case of the murder of Vietnamese student Vu Anh Tuan, committed in October 2004. Hearings are held behind closed doors, as 12 of the 17 defendants are minors. Another defendant was declared insane. The case against him is separated into a separate proceeding.

According to the results of a sociological study conducted by specialists from the Moscow center "Bashkirova and Partners" (sample size - 1,500 people, the survey was conducted in all regions of the country), 54% of Russians trust the Russian Orthodox Church, and 70% personally trust Patriarch Alexy II. About 70% of respondents also consider themselves believers, and 10% of them attend services at least once a month, and 15% celebrate major religious holidays.

In December 2005, in Rostov-on-Don, as part of the "Stop Fascism" campaign , under the auspices of the intercultural organization "Scythian National Congress", the "March of Life" project was launched.

On January 31, 2006, it became known that a number of Russian NGOs intended to file a lawsuit for the protection of business reputation against Channel One, the Rossiya TV channel and NTV, as well as journalist Arkady Mamontov and Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Security Vladimir Vasiliev, who , according to the head of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Lyudmila Alekseeva, who informed about the decision, " "he allowed himself to say that we are being financed by Western intelligence services .

On February 1, 2006, the Red Youth Vanguard planned to hold a conference in Moscow to coincide with the upcoming G8 summit in St. Petersburg. The participants of the event were detained at the Sukharevskaya metro station, where a gathering was scheduled. Most of the activists were detained by the police without explanation while still in the train cars and at the exits of the subway.

On February 1, 2006, a picket of representatives of human rights organizations took place under the slogan "FSB - hands off civil society." During the picket, its organizers and ordinary participants were detained. Lev Ponomarev, Alexander Mnatsakanyan, Ivan Kolesnik, Andrey Tatarinov, Andrey Mironov, Elena Ryabinina, Oleg Orlov, Alexander Podrabinek have been detained. Lev Ponomarev is the only organizer of the picket. The rest are its ordinary members.

On January 30, 2006, the prefecture of the Central Administrative District of Moscow refused to hold on February 1, 2006 the "FSB - hands off civil society" picket, which was planned to be held opposite the central entrance to the building of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation. In return, the organizers were offered to hold a rally at the Solovetsky stone on Lubyanka Square - up to 30 people. This is the second refusal to hold a picket.

"Interfax-religion" reports that in the Vladimir region, employees of the local department of the FSB detained a group of citizens of Tajikistan with a batch of leaflets with extremist content. "The leaflets were issued by one of the religious organizations, whose activities are prohibited on the territory of Russia.

On February 1, 2006, the office of the administration of St. Petersburg refused to accept a notice of an action against crimes in the army near the General Staff on Palace Square, which was submitted by the public organization "Soldiers' Mothers of St. Petersburg", referring to the failure to comply with the deadlines for submitting the notice. According to the chairman of the St. Petersburg "Yabloko" Maxim Reznik, Smolny's actions are a new method of fighting the opposition.

On the evening of January 29, 006, in the Novoslobodskaya metro area, a crowd of young people who did not get to the concert of the Clockwork Times rock band staged a pogrom. Young people smashed shop windows and threw themselves at passing cars. According to the Department of Internal Affairs of the CAO, at the presentation of the new album of the Clockwork Times group (which dedicates its songs to football fans) in one of the clubs on the street.

On January 30, 2006, the Internet magazine "New Politics" published an article by Igor Dobaev and Alexander Dugin "Western funds are preparing an "orange revolution" in Russia, directed against the Eurasia Foundation (FE) and its subsidiary, the New Eurasia Foundation" ( FNE). The Eurasia Foundation, the authors of the article say, "intends to take control over the process of formation and development of regional non-governmental organizations ...