First Deputy Prime Minister of the Chechen government Odes Baysultanov denied information about the introduction of compulsory headscarves for women. According to him, the government of the republic has not issued an official order in this regard. R.

The review offered to the attention of readers is devoted to the situation with human rights in Russia: the main events and the attitude of the human rights community towards them. The review was prepared by the Demos Center with the support of the OSI - Assistance Foundation. **LEGISLATION Law on NGOs** On January 17, Rossiyskaya Gazeta published the Federal Law "On Non-Governmental and Non-Commercial Organizations".

On March 15, 2006, in the city of Znamensk, Astrakhan Region, a court ruled to arrest Igor Mogilev, editor-in-chief of the Ya Russky newspaper, who had previously been detained as a suspect in the case of inciting ethnic hatred (Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). As part of this case, a comprehensive cultural and psycholinguistic examination of the materials of the newspaper, as well as the publications "Cerberus of Power" and "Going to Death" was carried out.

On March 15, 2006, a "round table" was held in Moscow on the problems of extremism and xenophobia. Representatives of major media, public figures, members of the Public Chamber took part in the work of the "round table". Valery Tishkov, Chairman of the Public Chamber Commission on Tolerance and Freedom of Conscience, Director of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, called on representatives of the Russian media to "agree on ...

On March 14, 2006, at a regular court hearing in the case of an attack on the parishioners of a Moscow synagogue, the opinion of experts from the Serbsky State Scientific Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry on the mental state of the defendant Alexander Koptsev was announced. According to the results of the examination, A. Koptsev currently has a schizotypal personality disorder. As expert N.

*All materials used in this review are posted on the website of the SOVA Center . The annual report of the SOVA Center "Radical Nationalism in Russia and Opposition to It in 2005" was partly used . Anti-Semitism is an organic part of the national-radical movement as a whole and should be considered in this context.

On March 14, at the round table "Muslims of Moscow: dialogue with the authorities" held at RIA Novosti, the chairman of the organization "Al-Khak" ("Justice") Kamilzhan Kalandarov said that Moscow officials of the middle and lower levels hinder Muslim initiatives. The question was, in particular, about the mosque "Safar", opened on the territory of the airport "Domodedovo" in 2002, but since September 2005 not operating.

On March 15, 2006, in Ulyanovsk, the prosecutor's office of the Leninsky district initiated a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of racial, national and religious hatred) on the fact of distribution of the newspaper "Vest" in the city. According to the investigation, the newspaper (distributed between December 2005 and January 30, 2006) propagated anti-Semitic ideas.

On March 15, 2006, in Kovrov, Vladimir Region, a search was carried out in the apartment of Dmitry Tashlykov, a columnist for the Vladimirsky Kray newspaper. A computer was confiscated from Tashlykov, and the journalist himself was interrogated for two hours. Law enforcement officers reported that they were acting as part of the investigation of a criminal case under Art.

Issue 10 of Literaturnaya Gazeta published an article entitled "Sovereignty of the 21st Century", the author of which, Alexander Dugin, once again returns to the topic of Russia's sovereignty and historical mission. Currently, the author recalls, the world is undergoing a process of globalization. “Globalization ,” writes A. Dugin, “ leads to a gradual concentration of power and control in the hands of the only remaining superpower, which is gradually turning into a new empire [USA - ed. ].

On March 14, 2006, the St. Petersburg police confiscated a print run (500 copies) of a brochure titled "What to do now. (The minimum program of the Russian people)" in the printing house of "Print" LLC. The brochure contains calls for the extermination of "people of non-Russian nationalities" on the territory of the Russian Federation, indicating the methods of murder, mentioning pitchforks and incendiary mixtures.

On the night of March 14, the house of Ismail Berdiev, chairman of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Republic and Stavropol Territory, was shelled. According to the mufti, he did not receive any threats the day before. None of the members of the family of the head of the DUM was injured.

On March 15, the Interreligious Council of Russia spoke out in support of initiatives aimed at limiting the gambling business. "Members of the Council welcome any decisions that will help to protect our fellow citizens, especially young people, from the temptations associated with gambling," said Rabbi Zinovy ​​Kogan, a member of the MSD Presidium.