On March 7, Fanis Shaikhutdinov and Ravil Gumarov were detained in Moscow, whose acquittal was overturned by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. The detention was made at the apartment of the former prisoner of Guantanamo Airat Vakhitov, where they stopped to spend the night. 15 people broke into the apartment, some of them were in uniform with the inscription "FSB".

We are publishing an analytical report on the main trends in the development of hate speech in the Russian media in 2005. The material was prepared within the framework of the project: Monitoring discrimination and national extremism in Russia by the Foundation for Civil Society. In this article we do not discuss the question of how and why negative ethnic stereotypes are formed. We consider only those mechanisms through which the media contribute to their formation.

On February 21, 2006, the newspaper "Courier of Karelia" published a short article by Max Dmitriev "A Man Without a Passport", dedicated to illegal migrants. At the same time, the article was subtitled "Tajik and Uzbek partisans are hiding in the Karelian forests, and six unidentified guest workers were building the station in Segezha .

On the night of March 6-7, 2006, a 22-year-old Syrian citizen, a student of one of the Rostov universities, was beaten in Rostov-on-Don. Unknown people attacked him near the Golden Horseshoe cafe. The victim, who was in a state of mild alcohol intoxication, filed a complaint about the attack at the police department of the Soviet district of the city. The Syrian refused medical assistance. Sources A student from Syria was attacked in Rostov-on-Don // Rosbalt. 2006. March 9.

On March 7, 2006, in the north-west of Moscow, a group of skinheads tried to beat up a young man - a representative of a leftist youth organization. claimed responsibility for the attack . A group involved in a series of beatings in the area How seriously injured the young man is unknown. The beating was stopped by passers-by. Based on Internet forums

Five students of the Slavic-on-Kuban State Pedagogical Institute were summoned to the dean's office on March 6 to visit the church of the Evangelical Christian Missionary Union (ECMS). Student Nina Fedotova, whose father is an EHMC pastor, was accused of luring fellow students into "their organization" using her position as head girl. Deputy Dean S.A. Shepty asked her why she told her classmates about her faith at all and why she invited them to visit.

At the meeting of the Commission of the Public Chamber on Tolerance and Freedom of Conscience, chaired by V. Tishkov, held on March 6, 2006, it was announced that the Commission intends to submit its proposals and amendments to the new Concept of the state national policy (see the text of the Concept proposed by the Ministry of Regional Development, according to as of the end of 2005).

The movement "Nashi" in Mordovia held an action "Sects - get out of Russia." About 50 supporters of the organization picketed a meeting of Jehovah's Witnesses in one of the cinemas. The picketers unfurled "anti-sectarian" posters, after which the leader of one of the headquarters of the movement, Sergei Mikayev, made a speech about the dangers of "sects." A sign "Caution: sect" was installed near the cinema.

On March 4, 2006, in Krasnodar, Oleg Popov, the head of the right-wing radical organization "Spiritual and Ancestral State of Rus'" was detained on charges of insulting government officials. Recall that O. Popov is a defendant in several criminal cases due to threats against government officials and employees of the prosecutor's office at various levels (including the death sentence for Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov, public statements about Vladimir Putin as "a lackey of Judaism" , etc.

On March 6, 2006, Nezavisimaya Gazeta published an interview with the head of the Center for the Study of Extremism and Xenophobia at the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Emil Pain, on the reasons for the growth of xenophobic sentiments in Russia. According to the ethnopolitologist, there are several reasons for this. Firstly, this is a difficult psychological overcoming of such a crisis as the collapse of the USSR.

On March 9, 2006, preliminary hearings began in Voronezh on the criminal case of the murder of Peruvian student Angelis Hurtado Enrique. Recall that there are 13 teenagers aged 14 to 19 in the dock, who, in addition to murder, are accused of hooliganism and robbery of four representatives of the rap movement. The direct killer, 19-year-old student of the Voronezh University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Igor Pavlyuk, faces 20 years to life imprisonment.

The Federal Service for Supervision of Compliance with Legislation in the Sphere of Mass Communications and the Protection of Cultural Heritage (Rosokhrankultura) issued a warning to the online publication Gazeta.Ru for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad from the Danish newspaper Jullands-Posten. The document, signed by the head of Rosokhrankultura B. Boyarskov, lists as a violation the article “Cartoon War” dated February 2, dedicated to Muslim protests against these drawings.

At the beginning of March 2006, a trial began in Kostroma over a group of skinheads (20-year-olds - Denis Korablev, Sergei Sokolov and Oleg Goncharov), accused of attacking Vietnamese citizens. Recall that in February the Supreme Court decided to return the case to the regional court (instead of additional investigation in the prosecutor's office, where the case was sent earlier).