On March 12, in the Saratov region, two imams won the elections of deputies to municipal authorities. The head of the Muslim community of the Ozinsky district, Shavkyat Karimov, became a deputy of the Ozinsky district assembly, Ramil Mustafin - a deputy of the Ivanteevsky district assembly. Imam-Khatib R. Mustafin stressed that Muslims in his region make up less than 25% of the population. R.

Conducting a search in the house of a murdered militant in one of the villages of the Khasavyurt district of Chechnya, officers of the 102nd brigade of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs desecrated the Koran.

On March 16, 2006, in Moscow, a group of activists of the National Bolshevik Party entered the building of one of the branches of Sberbank on Bolshaya Andronyevskaya Street, 8, where they demanded that Sberbank pay money debts to citizens. The protesters were detained by the police. A protocol on an administrative offense was drawn up, after which the National Bolsheviks were released. Adult detainees were sentenced under Art.

was attacked in Moscow . On March 15, 2006 , another son of a State Duma deputy from the Motherland faction, Andrei Savelyev's son, Mikhail, aged 17, As reported, at the Prospekt Mira metro station, the teenager was approached by two adults in civilian clothes, showed some kind of certificate, which he did not have time to examine, and, taking his arms, offered to go with them. Being physically prepared, the boy resisted, although he was hit in the face.

Between end-February and early March 2006, Russian police arrested two right-wing radical activists engaging in hate propaganda over the internet. On 28 February, in Kaliningrad, police searched the home of Alexei Safin, a leader of the local Movement against Illegal Immigration (DPNI) branch; Safin was subsequently arrested, but then released on recognizance.

The press service of the Domodedovo airport issued a statement in connection with the statements of the chairman of the Al-Haq organization Kamilzhan Kalandarov regarding the closure of the mosque on the territory of the airport. These statements, according to the authors of the statement, are based on unverified information, since "since its opening in 2002, the Safar mosque has been operating at Domodedovo Airport daily from 9 am to 6 pm.

On March 16, Minister of Justice Yury Chaika stated at the expanded collegium of the ministry that "the Ministry of Justice has prepared a draft law regulating the activities of missionary organizations. In the second half of this year, the corresponding bill will be submitted to the State Duma." According to the minister, scientists, experts and representatives of "traditional" confessions will be involved in drafting the bill.

On the night of March 13-14, 2006, Dmitry Zavada, an activist of the National Bolshevik Party, was detained in the city of Azov, Rostov Region. In the city police department, Zavada was severely beaten, under the threat of physical force and under psychological pressure, they forced him to sign some papers and kept him under arrest for two days. The reason for the detention, according to the press service of the NBP-Rostov, was that D.

On March 17, 2006, Perm militiamen seized part of the circulation of a special issue of the local newspaper Permskiy Obozrevatel. The police department on duty confirmed the information about the arrest of the circulation, but refused to give the reasons for the police actions. It is reported that this is the second case of arrest of the newspaper in the region. On March 9, 2006, the circulation of the newspaper "Vechernyaya Perm" was arrested, and a criminal case was initiated under Art.

In mid-March 2006, the Human Rights Center "Memorial" sent an official letter to the President of the Republic of Ingushetia, Murat Zyazikov, expressing concern about a series of attacks on Russian residents of the Republic that took place in January-March 2006. Attached to the letter is a description of 8 cases of attacks that have a similar scenario.

was conducted in the former Al-Furqan madrasah, located in Buguruslan, Orenburg region On March 14, another search . Leaflets of the Hizb ut-Tahrir organization were found. The founder of the madrasah, the head of the Central Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Orenburg region, Ismagila Shangareeva, claims that the leaflets were planted by those who conducted the search.

The Ministry of Education and Youth Policy of Chuvashia hosted a round table with the participation of city and regional departments of education and representatives of the Orthodox Church. The participants discussed the possibility of introducing an optional course "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture" in the schools of the republic from September 1, 2006.

The Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (FEOR) has made a statement in which it protests against the participation of publishers of anti-Semitic and xenophobic literature in the 9th National Book Fair "Books of Russia" (VVC). FEOR is indignant at the fact that the Russkaya Pravda publishing group and the Algorithm publishing house again present literature of "openly xenophobic and anti-Semitic content" at the book forum .