On March 4, 2006, the head of the regional branch of the National Bolshevik Party (NBP), Alexander Nazarov, and a member of the party's executive committee, Ivan Gerasimov, were detained in Chelyabinsk. The detainees are members of the party "NBP without Limonov" (right-wing radical). A criminal case was initiated against A. Nazarov and I. Gerasimov under paragraph "c" part 2 of Article 282 ("incitement of national hatred committed by an organized group").

On February 24, 2006, an article by Alexander Fridom was published on the website of the organization MariUver, dedicated to manifestations of xenophobia in the Republic of Mari El. The author paid considerable attention to xenophobic graffiti common on the streets of Yoshkar-Ola. A. Freedom notes that xenophobic graffiti is present on almost all streets of the city. Thus from the analysis of the published photos it is possible to understand the following.

On March 6, 2006, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation approved the indictment in the criminal case of the attempted assassination of Anatoly Chubais and a number of other crimes. GRU Colonel Vladimir Kvachkov, Robert Yashin and Alexander Naydenov are accused in the case. V. Kvachkov and R. Yashin were charged under Art. 277 ("encroachment on the life of a statesman or public figure"), Part 3 of Art.

On March 4, 2006, protests against the housing and communal services reform were held in many Russian cities, accompanied by the detention of participants. Thus, in Ulyanovsk, during a sanctioned rally that grew into a spontaneous procession, 10 activists of opposition organizations were detained - AKM, NBP, SCM and Oborona. The rally in Voronezh also turned into a spontaneous procession, the participants of which were detained by the police without explanation.

On March 3, 2006, Moscow Quaker Viktor Vekselman attempted to hold a one-man picket for an end to inter-religious conflicts. The picketer was arrested. Ten minutes after the start of the action, a policeman approached Vekselman and demanded to stop the picketing. V.

On March 5, 2005, a theatrical action "Anarcho-Maslenitsa" took place in Moscow on Pushkin Square, the participants of which tried to combine the celebration of Maslenitsa with a protest against the upcoming G8 summit. 10 people were detained by riot police. As part of the holiday, activists of the Food Not Bombs initiative handed out pancakes and saw off Maslenitsa. So far, the police have not intervened.

On the night of March 5, 2006, 71-year-old Cuban citizen Luis Miranda, the chef of the Old Havana restaurant, one of the most experienced cigar-rollers in Russia, was killed in Moscow. According to eyewitnesses, he was beaten by two short-haired teenagers (appearing to be 16-17 years old) when he left the restaurant on the street. Talalikhina, d. 26. From his injuries, a citizen of Cuba died on the spot. It is unknown if Luis Miranda was robbed.

March 4, 2006 at about 8 p.m. in Penza, an attack was made on the building of the Jewish community center, which houses all the Jewish organizations of the city. A young man who looked like a skinhead (he was dressed in army boots, black jeans and a short jacket without a collar) approached the building and smashed the window of the first floor of the building with a heavy object. 5 more people were standing 20 meters from the building. After the attack, they all fled the scene.

was justified . On March 3, 2006, the Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika, at a meeting with the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Terry Davis, declared that the claim to liquidate the Russian Research Center for Human Rights "Formally, Rosregistration had reason to demand the termination of the center's activities ," Yu. Chaika said. The minister also noted that "today the Ministry of Justice has no right to interfere in the activities of Rosregistration ...

On March 5, 2006, two individual picketers were detained in Rostov-on-Don - activists of the Rostov branch of the NBP, who were selling a party newspaper. On the same day, during an authorized picket in Volgograd, 7 National Bolsheviks were detained. In the Volgograd police station, the picketers were fingerprinted, photographed, and then administrative protocols were drawn up on the detainees under Art.

Since the beginning of 2006 in Yoshkar-Ola near the dormitories of one of the universities (presumably the Mari State Pedagogical Institute) there have been at least two attacks on students with a "non-Slavic" appearance. The first incident occurred at the end of January. Then two students were beaten by skinheads - an ethnic Armenian and an Azerbaijani. The second attack took place three weeks later, on 10 or 11 February. This time the victim of the skinheads was an ethnic Tatar.

On the evening of March 4, an attack was made on the Penza Jewish community center, where all the Jewish organizations of the city, including the synagogue, are located. A young man who looked like a skinhead broke a window on the first floor of the building. Nearby were five more people who fled immediately after the act of vandalism. In October 2004, skinheads already tried to attack the Penza synagogue. Sources Penza Jewish community center was attacked again // Penza-online. 2006.

March 3, 2006 in Maikop there was a mass brawl between the natives of Adygea and students from Chad, who study at the preparatory department of the Maikop State Technological University. Eight Adyghes and four foreigners took part in the fight. Two citizens of Chad were hospitalized with injuries of moderate severity: a broken jaw and lacerations to the head. All participants in the fight have been identified. The cause of the conflict has not been established.

*The SOVA Center took part in a meeting with EU representatives in Vienna on March 2, timed to coincide with the third round of EU-Russia consultations on human rights (unfortunately, Russian diplomats did not attend this meeting). For more information about the meeting , see the announcement on the website of the Demos Center. At the meeting, EU representatives were presented with an abbreviated version latest of SOVA's annual report on hate crimes and state action against xenophobia.

On March 5, 2006, law enforcement agencies arrested and confiscated the circulation of the Vremya newspaper, which is published by the Narodnaya Volya party. According to Aleksandr Rutskoi, chairman of the Kursk branch of Narodnaya Volya, at the entrance to Kursk the car transporting the newspaper was stopped and the circulation (60,000 copies) was confiscated. According to Rutskoi, "the police found out about the forthcoming direction of the newspaper to Kursk through illegal wiretapping .