On April 2, 2006, Sergey Bakach, the leader ("Führer") of the local neo-Nazi group National Socialist Federation (NSF), was detained in Kaliningrad. He was taken to the city's Baltiyskiy District Department of Internal Affairs and, after interrogation, was released "pending trial" . Unfortunately, the reports about S. Bakach, which appeared on right-wing radical sites, do not allow us to accurately understand the reason for his detention.

The Magadan Church of Evangelical Christians "Rock of Hope" demands that journalists from local publications and activists of the regional branch of the Liberal Democratic Party be brought to justice for publishing a series of articles and distributing leaflets that insult members of this church.

On April 5, 2006, a verdict was passed in Kostroma in the case of three skinheads Denis Korablev, Sergei Sokolov and Oleg Goncharov (nicknames Boar, Nervny and Spider), accused of attacks on Vietnamese citizens in 2004-2005.

The Political Council of the Democratic Party of Russia (DPR) issued a statement in which it proposes to exclude the LDPR from the list of parties that signed the Anti-Fascist Pact , and also demands that the leader of the Liberal Democrats, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, make a public apology for incorrect statements addressed to Jews and Russians on the air of the Vremena program. .

On March 31, 2006, at a press conference dedicated to the creation of the "Association of Civil Resistance to Fascism" , Senator Lyudmila Narusova was outraged that a photograph of the popular singer Irina Allegrova in Nazi uniform was published on the pages of the Caravan of History magazine. L.

The Governor of the Kursk region, Alexander Mikhailov, approved the action plan for 2006 for the revival of the Root Hermitage. According to Interfax-religion , "the cost of all work is estimated at 48 million rubles, attracted from various sources of funding." According to the agency, "More than 50 million rubles have already been spent from the budgets of all levels to restore the Root Desert.

was opened On April 5 , the official website of the Russian United Union of Evangelical Christians (Pentecostals) (before that, it had been working in test mode for a month). Konstantin Bendas, managing director of ROSHVE, became the editor-in-chief of the site. He spoke about the prospects for the development of a new Internet resource in an interview with Portal-Credo.ru .

The end of March and beginning of April was marked by the completion of three high-profile trials related to racist crimes and a new wave of skinhead attacks. This became the main topic of almost all final analytical programs on Russian television channels. However, the way they covered the problem of xenophobia and racist violence caused confusion among many viewers. Vladimir Pozner's program "Times" caused the greatest resonance. Following L.

On April 6, 2006 in Krasnoyarsk, one of the suspects in the brutal beating of the cook at the Dolphin cafe, a native of Tajikistan on April 1, 2006, was detained. The name of the detainee has not yet been released. Currently, he is being interrogated in order to clarify the motives of what happened and the exact number of suspects. As part of the investigation, the version of the emergence of a conflict on ethnic grounds will be checked.

portal On April 6, the Interfax-Religion , citing an unnamed source in law enforcement agencies, reported that Grigory Grabovoi was detained in Moscow on suspicion of fraud, who at one time promised the mothers of the victims of the Beslan tragedy to resurrect their dead children - in exchange for a significant amount of money.

On April 6 , the X World Russian People's Council ended in Moscow. An important result of his work was the adoption of the Declaration on the Rights and Dignity of Man. Here is the text in its entirety: “Realizing that the world is experiencing a turning point in history, facing the threat of a conflict of civilizations that have different understandings of man and his purpose, the World Russian People’s Council, on behalf of the original Russian civilization, adopts this declaration.

Ed. Alexander Verkhovsky This review continues a series of publications launched by the SOVA Center in autumn 2004. The article, as before, was written based on the materials of daily monitoring carried out by our center. All materials, except as otherwise noted, can be found on our website: http://sova-center.ru .