In February 2006, two trials were completed against participants in the mass riots that took place in the village of Yandyki, Astrakhan Region, in August 2005. In all cases, the investigation and the court do not recognize the inter-ethnic nature of the conflict and consider the summer events as "mass riots." On February 20, 2006, Anatoly Bagiev was sentenced to 7 years in prison with serving a sentence in a correctional colony of general regime.

Russian human rights activists are outraged by the demand of the Moscow prosecutor's office to remove from the site of the society "Memorial" the conclusion of the DUM AChR based on the materials of "Hizb ut-Tahrir".

The head of the Regional Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Perm Territory, Muhammadgali Khuzin, refused to recognize the decree of the head of the Central Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Russia, Talgat Tadzhutdin, on removal from his position. The official statement of the Perm Mufti notes that the Perm “Muftiate was already registered in 1994 as a centralized religious organization with its own Charter, internal order, community, etc.

On February 28, 2006, the Moscow Independent Press Center hosted a press conference titled "The Prosecutor's Office as a Censor?

On February 28, 2006, at the trial of the attack on the parishioners of the Moscow synagogue, the main defendant Alexander Koptsev refused to admit his guilt. The defendant stated this after the prosecutor read out the indictment in the criminal case. Answering the judge's question whether he pleads guilty, A. Koptsev said: "Since the Criminal Code was written by Jews and the Jewish mafia, I refuse to plead guilty . " Recall that A. Koptsev refused to go to trial by jury.

On February 28, a discussion (conciliar hearings) took place at the Danilovskaya Hotel on the topic “Human Rights and Personal Dignity. Church-Public View.” Met. presided and delivered the keynote address. Kirill. The report developed his previous speeches on this topic. Metropolitan Kirill considers human rights to be a tool for strengthening personal dignity, understood as following the likeness of God.

On February 28, 2005, it became known that the city administration of Arkhangelsk was ready to pay Roma 1.5 million rubles for their departure from the city . It should be reminded that in October 2005 the court of Arkhangelsk allowed the mayor's office to demolish the temporary buildings housing the gypsy camp. Gypsy baron H.

On February 26, the Supreme Court of Russia considered the claim of representatives of the Chelyabinsk Orthodox-patriotic movement “For the right to live without codes and chips” against the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The plaintiffs demanded to cancel the provision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs instructions, according to which a temporary certificate issued in the event of loss of a passport is valid for two months. The Orthodox believe that such a certificate should be unlimited.

On February 26, 2006, the Moscow Prosecutor's Office, represented by Deputy City Prosecutor S. Lapin, issued a warning to the Executive Director of the International Historical, Educational, Charitable and Human Rights Society "Memorial" Elena Zhemkova in connection with the placement on the website www.memo.ru of the expert opinion of the Mufti of Asian parts of Russia Nafigulla Ashirov based on four brochures published by the Hizb ut-Tahrir organization banned in Russia.

"Russian Review" published an article by S. Filatov and R. Lunkin "Images of Orthodoxy and Protestantism in the secular media: magnificence and ugliness." The authors, believing that "it is the media, and not the Orthodox (or any other) church, that most fully reflects the popular ideas about Christian values ​​in the mass consciousness of "modern Russians", analyzed the features of messages about Christianity in electronic and printed secular media.

At the end of February, Anna Smirnova, the editor-in-chief of the Nash Region newspaper, which published caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, was charged under paragraph "b" of Part 2 of Art. 282 ("Incitement of racial or religious hatred using one's official position"). The article provides for punishment of up to 5 years in prison. Sources The editor of the Vologda newspaper, which published caricatures of Muhammad, was charged // Week.ru. 2006. February 28.

On January 25, 2006, it became known that the extremist nationalist group "Slavic Union" held a rally in one of the parks of Noginsk. The formal reason for the action was a protest against the spread of drugs. The participants marched under the flags of the RNE and the "Slavic Union" and threw up their hands in a Nazi salute. On their sleeves they had bandages with a stylized swastika. In total, about 50 people took part in the rally. There were no police officers at the rally.