On February 6, 2006, during a court hearing in the case of Alexander Vtulkin, who is accused of spreading threats to St. Petersburg Governor Valentina Matvienko via the Internet, the state prosecutor asked for the defendant to be sentenced to three years in prison to be served in a colony-settlement. Recall that A. Vtulkin (“Minister of National Security” of the self-proclaimed “Russian Republic”) is being tried under paragraph “a” of Part 2 of Art.

The Union of Orthodox Citizens reacted to the scandal caused by the publication in the Danish press of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. that " The organization's statement, published on February 6 on the Interfax-religion portal, reads: "The Union of Orthodox Citizens expresses its full solidarity with its Muslim brothers who managed to achieve justice in the 'cartoon' scandal provoked by the Danish newspaper.

Islam-Info news agency reports that "Chairman of the National Organization of Russian Muslims (NORM) Abu-Talib Stepchenko (Omsk) held consultations with Russian Muslims who are members of other organizations in order to overcome misunderstandings and reach agreement on the main thing." "NORM united Muslims with different political preferences and included in the most diverse currents within Islam - both Shiism, and Sunnism of traditional maskhabs, and Salafism, and Sufism," the agency notes.

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On February 3, Metropolitan of Kaluga and Borovsk, Kliment, the MP's managing director, speaking at the closing of the XIV Christmas Educational Readings, said: "We are striving to have state funding for Orthodox gymnasiums created by religious organizations." At the same time, according to him, the ROC believes that teachers and staff of gymnasiums should be provided with the same benefits (in particular, conditions for retirement and allowances) as teachers of public schools.

To start with, let me explain why the author, who is neither an expert in Islam, nor a researcher of Hizb ut-Tahrir history and activity, decided to write this article [1] . Systematic and serious persecution of this organization in Russia may be the most large-scale application of the 2002 Law on Combating Extremist Activity.

In early February, the results of a sociological survey aimed at identifying xenophobic attitudes among the inhabitants of St. Petersburg were made public. The study was conducted in 2005, 500 respondents participated in the survey. At the same time, sociologists deliberately did not name specific ethnic groups, but clarified their attitude towards abstract "newcomers." The overall result of the survey is disappointing. 20% of St.

On the night of February 5, unknown young people again attacked the Center of Russian Spirituality (TsRD) of the Orthodox Church of the Mother of God "Derzhavnaya" (PTsBMD), located in Moscow on 1st Khutorskaya Street.

On February 3, 2006, at an open youth forum of the Perm Territory, where representatives of various youth movements gathered, the young nationalists of Perm announced their intention to legalize their activities. "We have come to the conclusion that it is ineffective to kill and have moved to legal forms of political struggle," said one of the six "skinheads" present at the forum, who introduced himself as a member of the Movement Against Illegal Immigration (DPNI).