On February 3, 2006, the Sovetsky District Court of Nizhny Novgorod delivered a verdict in the case of the editor-in-chief of the Pravo-Zashchita newspaper. Stanislav Dmitrievsky was found guilty under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting ethnic hatred) and sentenced to 2 years of probation and 4 years of probation.

Commenting in an interview with Interfax on the issue of teaching the "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture" in schools discussed during the Christmas Readings, Talgat Tadzhuddin, the Supreme Mufti of the Central Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Russia, said that the Central Spiritual Board of Muslims stands for "introducing the history of the traditional confessions of our country as a single subject." "Muslims, just like the Orthodox, have the right to teach their children the basics of

On February 2, 2006, Ezhednevny Zhurnal published Anton Orekh's article "Did You Read Those Books as a Child?", in which he was rather skeptical about the initiative of the Public Chamber to ban xenophobic literature. A. Orekh expresses his deep conviction that a frank "ban on literature" will have the opposite effect of what is expected: a person who has never been interested in anything like this will certainly want to read a forbidden book.

Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov proposed to introduce the post of regimental priest in the army. At a meeting of the board of the Prosecutor General's Office, V. Ustinov said that this measure would help fight crime and hazing. "Yes, it is possible to create a military police, to strengthen the legislation, but one cannot cope with this (hazing) by force," the prosecutor general said.

Anatoly Papp, Demos Center Since April 2005, the Information and Research Center "Demos" and the Information and Analytical Center "Sova" have been jointly implementing the Barometer of Democracy project. Every Sunday and Monday we turned to experts, journalists and social activists with the same request: to name the events that weakened democratic institutions in our country over the past week or, on the contrary, strengthened them.

On February 2, 2006, the APN website published a remark by the head of the Mercator research group, Dmitry Oreshkin, about the real and declarative "fight against xenophobia" by the top leadership of the state. D. Oreshkin notes that there are at least two aspects to the problem. On the one hand, there is a huge socio-psychological demand for "sovereignty", and not only positive. D. Oreshkin assesses this request as revanchist and unrealizable.

On February 3, 2006, the Sovetsky District Court of Nizhny Novgorod passed a sentence on Stanislav Dmitrievsky, editor-in-chief of the Pravo-Zashchita newspaper. He was found guilty under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and sentenced to 2 years of probation with 4 years of probation.

Mufti Visam Ali Bardvil, Chairman of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Republic of Karelia, spoke out against the advertising of intimate services in the media. The Mufti expressed regret that the parliament of the republic did not adopt a bill restricting the distribution of advertising of intimate services. The head of the DUM hopes that the authorities will still limit such advertising in the media. Sources DUM of Karelia opposed advertising of intimate services // Islam.ru.

On February 2, the Russian Association of Centers for Religious Studies (RACRI) was established, bringing together representatives of Russian information and religious studies centers that study new religious movements. Alexander Dvorkin, the head of the Irenaeus Lyonsky Center, was elected President of the RACRI, Archpriest Alexander Novopashin, Archpriest Alexander Shabanov became vice-presidents, priest Lev Semenov became the executive secretary.

On February 2, 2006, it became known that after November 14, 2005, human rights activists and leaders of ethnic minorities of the Krasnodar Territory held a rally against the local law "On Measures to Prevent Illegal Migration", which, according to the protesters, contradicts Article 27 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation defending the right of citizens to freedom of movement and choice of place of residence, the deputy head of the administration of the Varenikovsky rural district

In early February 2006, in one of the pawnshops in Saratov, law enforcement officers confiscated Nazi symbols and paraphernalia, including the Iron Cross of the Third Reich. According to a preliminary examination, only 2 German medals from the collection are authentic, everything else is a "remake". According to the sellers, the fascist paraphernalia was accepted into the store due to an oversight. According to A.

February 2. In 2006, the electoral committee of the Medvedkovsky district N196 of Moscow refused to register a candidate for the State Duma in the by-elections on March 12, Colonel of the GRU Vladimir Kvachkov, who is in jail on charges of attempted assassination of Anatoly Chubais.

Addendum to G. Kozhevnikova's report "Radical nationalism in Russia and opposition to it in 2005" We publish generalized statistics of attacks motivated by ethnic hatred for the period from January 1 to December 31, 2005. The information is systematized by regions of the Russian Federation in descending order of the total number of victims.

Participants of the XIV International Christmas Educational Readings approved a draft appeal in support of the Archbishop of Ufa and Sterlitamak Nikon (Vasyukov), who sent a letter to the Mayor of Moscow approving the ban on the construction of the Krishna temple. The project was presented at the section "Spirituality and pseudo-spirituality in the modern education system".

On February 2, 2006, the Independent Press Center in Moscow hosted the presentation of the SOVA Center's annual report "Radical Nationalism in Russia and Opposition to It in 2005". The report was the result of another year of work of the center within the framework of the project "Counteracting Radical Nationalism in Russia". It was presented at a press conference by the author, Galina Kozhevnikova.