On April 1, 2006, in the Dolphin cafe in the Kirovsky district of Krasnoyarsk, about 30 young people in militarized uniforms attacked the cafe's cook, an ethnic Tajik. The attackers dragged the cook out of the cafe to the street and severely beat him. The victim was taken to the intensive care unit and is now in critical condition.

On April 4, 2006, the parents of the murdered Tajik girl appealed the verdict of the St. Petersburg court, said the lawyer of the injured party, N. Ponomareva. "...we sent a cassation appeal to the Supreme Court against the decision of the St. Petersburg City Court, in which we ask to cancel the verdict and send the case for a new trial...

On March 31, the building of the Transfiguration Church on Aptekarsky Island, built in 1840-1845. according to the project of K.A. Ton, was officially transferred to the St. Petersburg diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. According to the site Pravoslavie.Ru , "the church was closed in 1930 and converted into a laboratory of physical acoustics of the Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute (LETI).

On April 4, 2006, in Moscow, the defense of Alexander Koptsev, who was sentenced to 13 years in prison for attacking parishioners of a Moscow synagogue, appealed against the verdict . "We filed a cassation appeal, as we consider the sentence to be excessively harsh. We agree with the charges and ask the court to mitigate the punishment for our client ," A. Koptsev's lawyer Vladimir Kirsanov.

On March 30, 2006, the prosecutor of St. Petersburg, Sergei Zaitsev, canceled the decision of March 17, 2006 on the refusal to initiate a criminal case under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred) in relation to the newspaper Rus Pravoslavnaya and the newspaper Za Russkoye Delo. The case was sent for additional consideration to the Department for the Investigation of Particularly Important Cases.

Since the end of March, a number of publications and speeches have appeared in the media expressing alarm about the activation of "state anti-fascism" and suspicion that the main goal of this campaign is to distract Russian society from social protest moods and discredit the political opposition on the eve of the elections.

On April 2, 2006, Vladimir Pozner's Vremena program discussed the problem of xenophobia in Russian society.

*We are publishing the text of an examination of M. Nazarov's publications, prepared at the request of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (FEOR) by specialists from the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Russian Federal Center for Forensic Expertise to apply to the prosecutor's office with a demand to initiate a criminal case against the anti-Semitic author under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred).

On April 4, 2006, the Dorogomilovsky Intermunicipal Court of Moscow passed a sentence on three defendants in the case of an attack on the Chechen singer Liza Umarova and her 15-year-old son Murad. The court recognized as proven the guilt of all three defendants - 22-year-old Alexei Petrenko, 21-year-old Sergei Bogrov and 24-year-old Artur Belov. The court found A. Bogrov and A.

In connection with the attack on an NTV correspondent in the subway, the National News Agency (ANN) published an article in which it drew readers' attention to the fact that "raids" of skinheads on the Moscow subway are no longer news. They occur quite regularly in a well-established pattern. ANN gives the testimony of a girl who witnessed one of these raids, probably one of the last in time.

On April 4, 2006, the Prosecutor's Office of Surgut (Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug) opened a criminal case on the fact of beating a teenager on the basis of ethnic hostility. According to the prosecutor of the city Alexander Ponomarev, a criminal case was initiated under part 2 of article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting ethnic, racial or religious hatred with the use of violence by an organized group).

On April 2, 2006, 15-year-old Kairat Murzagaliev, an ethnic Kazakh, was beaten in Surgut. K. Murzagaliyev was attacked by eight young people when he went out for bread. According to the victim, the attackers shouted nationalist slogans, one of them was wearing a scarf with swastikas. The skinheads threw the boy to the ground and kicked him. The victim was taken to the hospital with a head injury, concussion, broken nose and knocked out teeth.

On April 2, 2006, a 25-year-old Chinese citizen, a student at the Institute of International Educational Programs, was beaten up on Grazhdansky Prospekt in St. Petersburg (near one of the dormitories of the Polytechnic University). The victim was taken to the Alexander Hospital with head injuries and bruises on her face. According to a Chinese citizen, she was beaten by unknown as she was returning to the hostel. The robbery of the student is not reported.

On April 4, the 10th anniversary World Russian People's Council opened in the Hall of Church Councils of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior on the theme: "Faith. Man. Earth. The Mission of Russia in the 21st Century." One of the central issues brought up for discussion this year was formulated as follows: “Human rights and personal dignity. Church-social view.” The forum ended on April 6.

On April 4, 2006, a trial began in Voronezh in connection with an attack on a group of foreign and Russian students. The case will be considered by a panel of the regional court, consisting of three judges. There are 13 people accused in the case. Only one defendant, 19-year-old Igor Pavlyuk, has been charged with the murder of a foreigner.