Boris Kozinenko, head of the Council of Heads of the Federal Security Service of Russia in the Urals Federal District, speaking on February 14 at an interdepartmental meeting with the plenipotentiary representative of the district, said that conflicts between Sunnis and Shiites could soon erupt in the region: "If Muslims living in the inner regions of Russia profess Sunnism, then visitors from the south of the country, as a rule, are Shiites.

On February 14, 2006, VTsIOM published the results of a survey on the attitude of Russians towards anti-Semites. The study, as a result of which 1592 people were interviewed in 153 settlements in 46 regions, territories and republics of Russia, was conducted on January 28-29, 2006. The statistical error does not exceed 3.4%. Respondents were asked three questions.

On February 15, 2006 in Vologda, the newspaper "Our Region" published as an appendix to the article "Caricature War: Opinions" caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, which caused an international scandal .

On February 9, 2006, in Blagoveshchensk, consideration of the cassation appeals of three skinheads convicted of beating Chinese citizens began. The details of the meeting are unknown, because. The process takes place behind closed doors. The next meeting is scheduled for February 23rd. Let us recall that the verdict was handed down on November 7, 2005 by the city court of Blagoveshchensk.

On February 14, 2006, a monument to Afanasy Nikitin was desecrated in Tver. A swastika appeared on its pedestal. Gereikhanova A. Erase the spider // Tverskaya zhizn. 2006. February 15. Information provided by the "Memorial" society. (Tver)

In February 2006 in Tver on the street. Trekhsvyatskaya distributed anti-Semitic and anti-Caucasian leaflets. The first leaflet put forward the call "Russian! Let's liberate our native land from Jewish fascism!" . The second leaflet claims that "persons of Caucasian nationality operate freely in Moscow ...

On February 16, 2006, in Volgograd, the municipal daily newspaper "City News" was closed. The order to close the publication was signed by the acting head of the city administration, Andrei Doronin. Rosbalt reported this with reference to ITAR-TASS. It was not possible to obtain media comments from A. Doronin himself. The city administration and the newspaper itself have not yet confirmed this information.

On February 15, the Vologda regional newspaper "Our Region" published as an appendix to the article "Caricature War: Opinions" those same cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that caused an international scandal . And although the most offensive drawings were corrected or partially printed, and the governor Vyacheslav Pozgalev publicly apologized for the publication, the prosecutor's office of the Vologda Oblast nevertheless began an investigation.

February 15 - the day of the Orthodox holiday of the Presentation of the Lord - in Maykop, despite the protests of the national organizations of Adygea "Adyge Khase" and "Circassian Congress", a monument to Nicholas the Wonderworker was solemnly opened. A six-meter bronze monument by the work of the Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Sergei Isakov was erected by the Saint's Charitable Foundation near the church of St.