On February 20, it became known that the Vologda newspaper Our Region, which had published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, was closing down. This was announced by Mikhail Smirnov, the owner of the Severinform information holding, which includes the publication.

On February 20, the head of the State Duma committee on information policy, Valery Komissarov, told Interfax that the committee's experts would carefully study the circumstances of the closure of the Volgograd and Vologda newspapers, around which "cartoon" scandals flared up. "I instructed our specialists to look into this situation and find out whether the publication of well-known cartoons was a real reason for closing the newspapers," V. Komissarov said.

On February 19, 2006, an Israeli citizen, a 23-year-old student of the Pedagogical University named after A.I. Herzen. According to preliminary data, several unidentified persons attacked the student at house N 30 on Grazhdansky Prospekt, beat him up and fled the scene. One of the dormitories of the Polytechnic University is located in this area. Apparently an Israeli citizen was heading there. The victim sought medical help on February 20, 2006.

On February 15, 2006, Literaturnaya Gazeta published an interview with the leader of the Eurasia movement, Alexander Dugin, dedicated to the "cartoon scandal". In Dugin's reasoning - his usual attacks on liberal ideology, secular Europe, reasoning about the weakness of European civilization. Along the way, Dugin does not forget to recall the "harmfulness" of Russian liberals ( "...

On February 17, an act was signed in Stavropol on the return of the Stavropol and Vladikavkaz diocese to the Russian Orthodox Church of one of the surviving buildings of the convent of St. John and Mary. Until now, this building was occupied by a branch of the regional psychiatric clinic (however, part of the premises was transferred to the monastery, revived in 2005, earlier).

On February 20, 2006, the Vologda newspaper "Nash Region", which reprinted Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad , was closed. This was reported to journalists by Mikhail Smirnov, the owner of the Severinform information holding, which includes the publication.

On February 15, 2006, in the Leninsky District Court of Orenburg, consideration of the claim of the chief editor of the anti-Semitic newspaper "Russkaya Pravda" Alexander Aratov against the former publisher of the anti-Semitic newspaper "Russian View" Vladimir Mikhailov for the protection of honor, dignity, business reputation and compensation for moral damage was completed. The reason for filing a lawsuit was the pamphlet "One of the Freaks", published in "Russian View" already in 1997 .

On February 15, 2006, it became known that some teachers of the social disciplines of Omsk universities were paid a "preventive visit" by district policemen - on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the 20th Congress of the CPSU. The purpose of the event remained unclear. Judging by the reservations like "I have two more addresses", the visits of social science teachers and politicians were carried out according to the list.

On February 20, 2006, Mikhail Smirnov, owner of the information holding Severinform, which publishes the newspaper Our Region, which reprinted Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, announced the closure of the newspaper. According to M. Smirnov, the decision to close the newspaper was taken "in connection with the unwillingness to expose anyone from the editorial board to a further possible blow" .

On February 20, 2006, activists of the National Bolshevik Party held actions demanding the resignation of the Minister of Defense and a transition from conscription to a contract army. In Voronezh, the National Bolsheviks handcuffed themselves in the building of the military registration and enlistment office. 6 people were detained.

On February 17, 2006, a rock concert "For Russia without fascism, war and violence" was held in Moscow at the Gorbunov Palace of Culture, during which a fight broke out in the hall, provoked by a group of 20-30 strong young people. According to the Kasparov.Ru website, most of the attackers are Dynamo fans. Even before the start of the concert, posters appeared in front of the building: "Do you think you are against fascism? You are against the Russian people .

In the city of Karachaevsk (Karachay-Cherkess Republic), during a search at the imam of a local mosque, a 7.62 mm AKM assault rifle and two F-1 grenades with fuses were seized. told an Interfax correspondent . "Inspection of a private household belonging to the imam was carried out by order of the court of Karachaevsk.

In issue 11 of Novaya Gazeta for 2006, Andrey Ryabov responded to Yegor Gaidar's article "The Weimar Syndrome" . The author is not inclined to draw analogies regarding "Weimar Russia". However, in the context of this topic, A. Ryabov writes, at least two more fundamental questions arise. The first question is about the reasons for the sharp rise in neo-imperial, nationalist and xenophobic sentiments. A. Ryabov sharply polemicizes with Gaidar's thesis that "when prosperity begins to grow ...

On February 18, 2006, the entire circulation of the opposition newspaper Yo, which is jointly published by the regional branches of the United Civil Forum (OGF), Oborona, and the National Bolshevik Party, was arrested in Vladimir. Police detained five activists of the United Civil Front, RKSM(b), NBP and Oborona when they were handing out newspapers and leaflets near the city market, and taken to the police department. The police confiscated all the newspapers they had from the detainees.

On February 18, 2006, 14 activists of the National Bolshevik Party were detained in Pavlovsky Posad during a sanctioned rally against the housing and communal services reform. In addition to city activists led by the head of the local organization, Sergei Rodinov, activists who had come from Moscow were detained: they were already detained near the railway platform. The NBP-Info website reports that three detainees, including S. Rodinov, were beaten by police officers.