The interregional human rights group Voronezh/Chernozemye prepared a report on the situation with human rights in the Voronezh region in 2005, devoting a separate paragraph to the situation in the field of freedom of opinion, conscience and religion.

On March 24, 2006, at the hearings held by the Commission of the Public Chamber on Tolerance and Freedom of Conscience, gallery owner Marat Gelman made a statement about the creation of a public group "International" (which included M. Gelman himself and several of his "colleagues in art"). The group intends to fight fascism by squeezing specific carriers of this ideology out of public life and politics.

On March 24, 2006, participants in a sanctioned rally were detained in Pskov, protesting against the dominance of slot machines in the city. The arrest took place immediately after one of the activists destroyed the layout of the slot machine.

Bishop Maxim (Dmitriev) of Barnaul and Altai expressed his disagreement with the draft regulation on the governor's council for interaction with religious associations. Vladyka is not satisfied with the principle of equal representation of confessions, thanks to which the Orthodox may find themselves on the council together with the "destructive sects" against which the Church is fighting.

In connection with the presence of nationalist literature at the Books of Russia exhibition-fair, the head of Rospechat, Mikhail Seslavinsky, instructed the fair administration to give the organizers of the stand of the Russkaya Pravda publishing group and the Algoritm publishing house a warning about the possibility of removing the stand from the exhibition area if literature is placed on it , "inciting national and religious strife" . At the same time, M.

March 21, 2006 in Samara, the headquarters of the local branch of the Union of Communist Youth (aka the headquarters of the Samara OK KPRF) was attacked. Unidentified persons smashed a window into a conference room on the first floor of the building and smeared the sign "Samara Komsomol" with purple paint.

On March 24, 2006, the Basmanny Court of Moscow rejected the complaint of the representative of the movement "For Human Rights" Evgeny Ikhlov about the illegality of the actions of the Basmanny Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office of the capital, which repeatedly refused to initiate criminal proceedings on the fact of conducting two anti-Semitic campaigns ( "letter 500" and "letter 5000" ).

On March 24, 2006, the prosecutor's office of Vladimir declared illegal the actions of police officers to seize leaflets and the circulation of the newspaper "Yo" on February 18, 2006. According to the identified violations, "a proposal was submitted to the head of the city police department to eliminate the causes of violation of the law and bring the perpetrators to justice." Sources Shlyapuzhnikov A. Like this // Kasparov.Ru. 2006. March 24.

On March 17, 2006, in Moscow, representatives of various national-patriotic, patriotic and Orthodox-patriotic public organizations, parties and movements held a meeting of their representatives, at which they signed an "Agreement on mutual respect and prompt exchange of information." It is significant that among the participants of the meeting were represented, among other things, organizations that are ideological and political opponents.

On March 23, the Vladimir City Council decided to transfer the Nikolo-Kremlin Church, currently occupied by the planetarium, to the Vladimir diocese. For the planetarium, it is planned to build a new building on the site of three dilapidated buildings in the central park of the city, the decision to demolish which was also made by the Vladimir City Council.

On March 23, at about 20:00 in Kolpino (St. Petersburg), 34-year-old African Stanley Teagli Jeffeon Kwauto, a citizen of the Republic of Ghana, was beaten. As a result of the attack, the victim received a head injury, a broken nose and a concussion. The African himself turned to law enforcement officers with a statement that in the area of ​​​​st. Red, he was attacked by two unknown men.

On March 21, in Yoshkar-Ola, the first hearings on the suit of the Yoshkar-Ola diocese against the city administration took place. The reason for the lawsuit was the illegal development of a land plot located behind the city archive, in the quarter bounded by Karl Marx, Pushkin and Sovetskaya streets.

On March 21, 2006, State Duma deputy Nikolai Kuryanovich awarded a letter of thanks to hackers from the neo-Nazi organization "Slavic Union" (D. Demushkin) for "suppressing the facts of Russophobia and inciting inter-religious hatred on the Internet .

On March 23, 2006, access to materials from the Pravda.Ru website was suspended. According to the general director of Pravda.Ru Inna Novikova, the Internet resource provider, the Masterhost company, sent to the editor excerpts from the FSB letter addressed to the provider, which contains a demand to remove cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad from the sites caricatura.ru and pravda.ru as inciting religious hatred . The publisher of Pravda.Ru decided to block access to the Internet resource.

On March 23, 2006, the St. Petersburg city committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation received a refusal from the city administration to hold a picket dedicated to the anniversary of the bombing of Yugoslavia.