On March 21, the St. Petersburg Islamic Cultural Center addressed the Russian public in connection with the screening of the documentary film "Mossad. The Elusive Avengers" (author Sergey Pashkov, director Alexander Iskin) on the air of RTR.

In Nizhny Novgorod, seven young people were detained (five high school students, one vocational school student and one female student), who are suspected of desecrating an Orthodox church. reports with reference to the information and public relations department of the regional police department As Interfax-religion , “On March 19, a group of seven people entered the Alexander Nevsky Church, all in black, they looked 15-18 years old, among the young people there were three girls.

On March 23, the information website of the commissions of the Moscow Patriarchate and the Russian Church Abroad was opened .

Speaking on March 22 at a meeting of the Commission of the Public Chamber on the preservation of cultural and spiritual heritage, the head of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan of Kaluga and Borovsk, Kliment, supported the idea of ​​transferring cultural monuments to private ownership. "If a cultural monument becomes property in someone's hands, this should only be welcomed. If someone takes and invests money, he can only save the object of culture," the metropolitan said.

On March 22, 2006, in the city court of St. Petersburg, a jury delivered a verdict on eight defendants in the case of the attack on the Sultonov family and the murder of 9-year-old Khursheda Sultonova in February 2004. According to the panel's verdict, seven of the eight defendants, including the one accused of murder, were found guilty by nine out of twelve votes only of hooliganism with the use of " objects used as weapons" .

According to the Press Center of Mikhail Khodorkovsky , cleric of the Chita diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, Fr. Sergiy Taratukhin, who in November 2005 refused to consecrate a prayer room in the colony of Krasnokamensk in protest against the conviction of the ex-head of Yukos and was later transferred to a remote parish as punishment for this act, is banned from ministry. The corresponding decree is dated March 21 and signed by Bishop Evstafiy of Chita and Transbaikal.

On March 23, 2006, from the text of the Decree "On arraignment as a defendant", details of the charge brought in the Astrakhan region I.A. case of incitement to national hatred. I.A. Mogilev, who was arrested on March 15, 2006, was charged under paragraph "a" of Part 2 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred, committed with the use of violence, publicly and using the media). According to the Decree, I.

In preparation for the meeting of the Public Chamber dedicated to the fight against extremism, on March 23, a meeting of the subcommittee of the Public Chamber on the problems of combating xenophobia, nationalism and extremism, headed by Mavlid Bazhaev, was held. In addition to members of the Public Chamber, some experts and human rights activists were invited to the meeting.

On March 23, on the main page a message appeared of the Pravda.Ru website: "At the request of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, access to the materials of Pravda.Ru has been temporarily suspended." Thus, the online edition is protesting against the actions of the special services, which turned to the site's hosting provider and demanded to remove "materials that promote incitement of inter-confessional hatred." Moreover, the editors of Pravda.Ru did not receive exact

On March 21, 2006, the editor of the Radical Politics newspaper and co-chairman of the Revolutionary Contact Association (RKO) Boris Stomakhin (who calls himself a "revolutionary liberal" and is known for supporting Chechen separatists and calling on President Bush to bomb Moscow) was detained in Moscow. B. Stomakhin's detention was related to a criminal case initiated in December 2003, within the framework of which in April 2004 he was charged under Art.

On March 9, Governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko signed the law "On the Procedure for Transferring State Property of St. Petersburg for Religious Purposes into the Ownership of Religious Organizations" adopted on February 8 by deputies of the regional Legislative Assembly. Here is the text of the document in full: "The present Law of St.

We are publishing the text of the Decree of the Znamenskaya city prosecutor's office of the Astrakhan region on bringing Igor Mogilev, leader of the Union of the Russian People - Russian Community, as a defendant in the case of inciting national hatred. The text is based on materials from right-wing radical sites . **ORDINATION On being brought as a defendant** Znamensk March 13, 2006 Investigator of the Prosecutor's Office ZATO Znamensk 2nd class lawyer Mironenko D.N.