On February 21, on the website of the Russian Association of Religious Researchers, the full text of the publication prepared by the association "Freedom of Conscience in Russia: Historical and Modern Aspects. Collection of reports and materials of interregional scientific and practical seminars and conferences. 2002-2004" was posted. (M., 2004. 624 p.).

On February 21, the prosecutor's office of the Altai Territory opened a criminal case under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity") in connection with the statements of one of the forum visitors on the Banfax website when discussing the "cartoon scandal".

The administration of Tyumen allocated ten million rubles for the construction of a Muslim prayer house. As street Ildar Ziganshin, the Plenipotentiary of the Supreme Mufti of the Central Muslim Spiritual Directorate in the Tyumen region, told Islam-Info news agency, "during the opening of the prayer house, a competition will be announced already for the construction of the Cathedral Mosque. The prayer house is only one of its complexes.

In the second decade of February, a scandal erupted over the "Anti-Fascist Pact" initiated by United Russia, the signing of which has now acquired the character of a mass political and advertising campaign. On February 15, 2006, the Izvestia newspaper published an interview with United Russia Vice Speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin about this document, which, we recall, was initiated by United Russia at the end of January.

On February 21, 2006, it became known about another criminal case indirectly related to the cartoon scandal . This time the case under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation was initiated by the Altai Regional Prosecutor's Office. The reason for this was one of the comments to the letter of Rosokhrankultura about the inadmissibility of publishing drawings "depicting in caricature the prototypes of world religions" .

On February 13, 2006, the Russian Courier weekly published Alexander Protsenko's article "Hijab for Russia", in which once again an attempt was made to whip up anti-immigrant hysteria. It is noteworthy that the publication, by and large, is not an article, but a set of statistical data from various surveys that allegedly confirm the "dominance of non-Russians" in Russia, who "build their village" in the metropolis, oust Russian children from schools and kindergartens, etc. d.

Chairman of the Spiritual Muslim Board of the Tyumen region, Galimzhan Bikmullin, appealed to the regional prosecutor's office with a request "to prevent an act without rights committed against one of the parishioners of our mosque." We are talking about the detention on February 9 in Tyumen, at the request of the authorities of Uzbekistan, Abdulgany Kamaliev.

On February 18, at the Department of Theology of the Sarov Institute of Physics and Technology, a round table "Orthodoxy and Islam in Russia. Experience of Living Together in Russia: Achievements and Problems" was held. According to the website of the Nizhny Novgorod diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church , "the report of the teacher of the Orthodox St.

Portal-Credo.ru published prepared by the Chief Military Prosecutor's Office the draft Federal Law of the Russian Federation "On Military Priests" . In Art.

On February 21, 2006, the REGNUM portal published an interview with Alexander Shevyrev, Associate Professor of the Faculty of History of Moscow State University, the reason for which was the publication of the textbook "Mosaic of Cultures". The publication is intended for teaching history and social studies in secondary schools and is aimed at developing tolerance in a multicultural society. The manual is aimed at schoolchildren in grades 10-11, but can be used by younger students. A.

In the Narimanovskiy District Court of Astrakhan, the trial, the second in a row, of Mansur Shangareev has been going on since January. This time he is charged under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - "Inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity" (the criminal case was initiated in December 2005). The first hearings took place on January 24, February 2 and 3 (see the February 14 report on Portal-Credo.ru ).