V. Putin did not support the bill "On Personal Data" adopted by the State Duma in the first reading in November 2005. The President proposes to single out two articles into an independent law - on personal data identifiers ("unique and permanent" assigned to each individual) and on the State Population Register of the Russian Federation (which should contain these identifiers). Otherwise, the concept of the bill did not raise objections.

On February 16, 2006, at the recording of the program "Two against One" of the St. Petersburg television company "Nevsky Canal", the leader of the Party of Economic Freedom Konstantin Borovoy, without restraining himself, hit one of the presenters of the television program. According to K. Borovoy himself, the incident was preceded by numerous journalistic provocations. Including a pronounced anti-Semitic character.

On February 13, 2006, the Public Verdict Foundation published the results of a sociological survey conducted by the Levada Center among Russian policemen. The survey was conducted among policemen, active employees of various departments of internal affairs bodies in 41 cities of Russia. It should be noted that in the final text the problem of the prevalence of xenophobic attitudes among police officers was not considered in detail, although the relevant questions were asked.

On February 17, 2006, the trial of the head of the Khabarovsk regional branch of the National Power Party of Russia (NDPR) Sergei Lukyanenko resumed in Khabarovsk . S. Lukyanenko is charged under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred) for the publication and distribution of the 2nd issue of the newspaper "Nation", containing nationalist materials, as well as the distribution of NDPR leaflets.

On February 6, 2006, the newspaper "Kommersant" published an article by Yegor Gaidar, Director of the Institute for the Economy in Transition, entitled "The Weimar Syndrome". In the post-Soviet conditions of the collapse of the empire, the author writes, the emergence of "post-imperial nostalgia" is inevitable. An appeal to it is "a political reality in the conditions of democratic states with universal suffrage" .

On February 16, 2006, a group of activists from the Vanguard of the Red Youth broke into the premises of a housing and communal services enterprise in Moscow and began to scatter leaflets there demanding to stop the rise in prices for housing and communal services. 13 people were arrested and taken to the Kitai-Gorod police station. A criminal case was initiated against the detainees under Part 2 of Art. 213 of the Criminal Code of Russia ("hooliganism").

The leadership of Vladivostok universities is strengthening security measures for foreign students. They are accommodated in specially guarded sections of student dormitories and are given monthly briefings on how to behave on the streets of the city during non-school hours. In the event of the appearance of radical groups of neo-Nazis and skinheads, or simply a turbulent situation in the city, an emergency briefing is carried out for foreigners.

Chairman of the Spiritual Board of Muslims of the Nizhny Novgorod Region Umar-Khazrat Idrisov addressed the participants of the scientific-practical conference "St. George's Readings" held on February 17 in Nizhny Novgorod, dedicated to the day of memory of the founder of Nizhny Novgorod, Prince Georgy Vsevolodovich. The readings were organized by the Nizhny Novgorod diocese, and representatives of the DUMNO were not invited.

Svetlana Kovaleva, Demos Center The review brought to the attention of readers is devoted to rallies, demonstrations, pickets and other protest actions organized by citizens in defense of their civil, social, economic and other rights. The review was prepared by the Demos Center with the support of the OSI - Assistance Foundation. United actions. All-Russian protests On December 10, in 20 cities of Russia (Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Vladivostok, Chita, St.

On February 17, 2006, President Vladimir Putin, speaking at an expanded meeting of the board of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, called on law enforcement agencies to focus on crimes motivated by ethnic and racial hatred and extremism. According to the President, "law enforcement agencies have underestimated the danger of this phenomenon and have not yet been able to properly respond by building effective and systematic work to prevent conflicts on an ethnic and religious basis" .

The Volgograd newspaper "City News" that published a drawing depicting Christ, Mohammed, Moses and Buddha will be closed. This decision was made on the evening of 16 February. Earlier, the vice-mayor of Volgograd Konstantin Kalachev denied the information about the closure of the newspaper.

On February 17, 2006, the Prosecutor's Office of the Vologda Oblast opened a criminal case under Art. 282 part 2, paragraph "b" of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity on the basis of religious hatred using one's official position) against Anna Smirnova, editor-in-chief of the local newspaper Nash Region, in connection with the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad .

On February 16, 2006, the Acting Mayor of Volgograd Andrey Doronin signed a decree on the termination of the activities of the founder and publisher of the municipal newspaper "City News" - the municipal institution "Volgograd-Inform". The resolution says that the decision was made in connection with the publication on February 9, 2006 in the newspaper of the article "Racists have no place in power" with a drawing that " caused a negative reaction from religious and public associations" .

The Russian House TV program, which recently began airing on the Spas channel, has been taken off the air again. "Radonezh" with reference to "informed sources" reports that the management of the TV channel made such a decision at the insistence of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation. Sources "Russian House" again taken off the air // Radonezh. 2006. February 17.

The Volgograd Anti-Fascist Center expressed its indignation at the closure of the Gorodskiye Vesti newspaper, which published a drawing that local United Russia members considered xenophobic. Its activist Andrei Bachman believes that this campaign is the beginning of a new wave of manipulation of public consciousness, in order to distract Russians from real manifestations of xenophobia: “ This is just some kind of nonsense.