On February 7, the Moscow City Duma adopted a resolution on the creation of a commission on interethnic and interfaith relations within its structure. It is assumed that it will include representatives of all the factions of the Moscow State Duma, and Igor Yeleferenko, a deputy from United Russia, may become the chairman.

A special public commission has decided not yet to introduce "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture" in schools in the Samara region. The idea of ​​teaching this course was opposed by the Muslim and Jewish communities, who believe that in a region where more than a hundred nationalities with different religions live, it is wrong to study the foundations of any one culture.

On February 8, a commission on national and confessional policy was created in the Federation Council. Sergei Mironov became its chairman, saying that the creation of this structure was approved by the country's leadership.

The Volgograd Regional Duma considered the amendments made by Governor Nikolai Maksyuta to the current law "On the turnover of agricultural land in the Volgograd Region". We are talking about 800 hectares of agricultural land, which until January 1, 2006 could be used free of charge by religious associations. Under the new Land Code, organizations must either buy land or lease it.

On February 7, 2006, the Levada Center published a traditional review, “The Socio-Political Situation in Russia in January 2006,” compiled from data obtained in the course of two studies. The first was held on January 4-20 and covered 2,100 people, the second on January 20-24 and covered 1,600 people.

On February 7, 2006, the data of a survey on the attitude of Russians to the attack on the Moscow synagogue was published by VTsIOM (compare with the results of surveys by FOM and Levada Center ). The survey was conducted on January 28-29, 2006. 1,592 people were surveyed in 153 settlements in 46 regions, territories and republics of Russia. The statistical error does not exceed 3.4%. 69% of respondents were aware of the attack in the synagogue.

In February 2006, in the city of Berdsk, Novosibirsk Region, the case of a group of skinheads, whose members attacked people from Central Asia motivated by national hatred, was brought to court. According to the preliminary investigation, the group, which included teenagers from Novosibirsk and Berdsk, was formed in the summer of 2005. The Berdsk rock cafe was the gathering place for skinheads, and after it was closed, the Vega stadium.

The attack on the synagogue on Bolshaya Bronnaya Street dramatically accelerated the process of preparing amendments to "anti-extremist" legislation, the need to amend which has long been discussed by many experts involved in countering extremist activity.

On February 2, in Chelyabinsk, searches were carried out at all persons who were trained in the madrasah with. Middle Yeluzan, Penza region. Searches were carried out by employees of the prosecutor's office, who confiscated books and notebooks. During the interrogations, questions were asked concerning the dogma: what is the hatred of Allah and whether those interrogated feel it towards others.

On February 8, a two-week training course on the problems of counseling HIV-infected people for clergy and Orthodox specialists began. The course was organized by the Russian Round Table at the DECR and the Russian Orthodox University of St. John the Apostle the Theologian as part of the Russian Orthodox Church's program to prevent and combat the spread of HIV/AIDS.

On February 1, 2006, the Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow began a judicial investigation into a complaint filed by the Moscow Anti-Fascist Center (MAC) on January 24 regarding the refusal of the Moscow Prosecutor's Office to initiate a criminal case under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation in connection with nationalist manifestations during the Right March on November 4, 2005. The complaint filed by the chairman of the IAC, E.V.