On April 12, 2006, the Moscow Prosecutor's Office indicted three suspects in the case of beating the Minister of Culture of Kabardino-Balkaria, Zaur Tutov. The main defendant, 24-year-old Stanislav Novokhatsky, who, according to investigators, directly hit Tutov with a beer bottle, pleaded guilty during the preliminary investigation.

On April 10, 2006, the Syktyvkar prosecutor A.I. Kuzmin refused to open a criminal case under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred) to the representative of the Komi human rights commission "Memorial" I. Sazhin. A. Kuzmin's refusal came in response to I. Sazhin's statement about neo-Nazi leaflets thrown into his mailbox (one of the Lithuanians was signed "RNE").

The Soviet People's Court of Chelyabinsk decided to liquidate the "United Christian Church (the world's first Orthodox Catholic) named after Pope John Paul II." The statement of claim was received from the Inspectorate of the Federal Tax Service for the Sovetsky District. V. Seredonin, in whose name the organization is registered, demanded to return to the consideration of the case, because.

On April 5, 2006, police officers detained Natalia Kolesnikova, a photojournalist of the Sobesednik weekly, near the building of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, and without drawing up any protocols, they erased pictures of the dispersal of the NBP rally from the photojournalist's flash card . Accidentally being on the scene, an accredited parliamentary correspondent was filming, during which she was detained. A man who did not introduce himself led N.

On April 8, 2006 in Chita, skinheads attacked a group of foreign workers - Chinese citizens and were rebuffed. Around 21 o'clock. a group of aggressive young people (12-15 people) in identical jeans and bomber jackets gathered at the monument to the Border Guards on Chkalov Street, singing songs and shouting nationalist slogans. At this time, about 40 Chinese workers were passing by, allegedly returning from the construction of a shopping complex on Theater Square.

On April 11, 2006, in St. Petersburg, the Nashi movement organized an anti-fascist action to protest against the murder of a Senegalese student, during which a brawl occurred, which, according to the interpretation of some media, had a nationalist background. The action began with a rally on Konyushennaya Square, which was attended by about 1,000 people, mostly African students.

On April 11, 2006, the Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Court upheld the verdict in the case of Stanislav Dmitrievsky, editor-in-chief of the Pravo-Zashchita newspaper. The court dismissed both the cassation appeals of the convict and his lawyers, in which they asked to cancel the verdict as unlawful and unfounded, and the presentation of state prosecutors, who insisted on punishment associated with real deprivation of liberty.

On April 10, 2006, unauthorized actions of the National Bolshevik Party took place in Kaluga and Samara. Participants are detained. In Kaluga, 7 NBP activists blocked the entrance to a Sberbank branch with handcuffs and demanded fair compensation for deposits. Five detainees for holding an unauthorized event were released in the evening of the same day, two - Viktor Kalinkin and Ilya Ivanov - spent the night in the police.

In Barnaul, repressions began against participants in a rally in defense of political prisoners and freedom of speech, which took place on March 25, 2006. This became known from the appeal of activists to the media and NGOs dated April 11, 2006. The places of work and study of detainees during the picket receive letters and calls with demands "to take appropriate response measures to rule out such facts in the future ... to report on the measures taken within the prescribed period" .

On April 12, an agreement on cooperation was signed between the Ufa diocese and the republican State Drug Control Service. The parties intend to jointly fight the drug threat. The document provides for work with parishioners of Orthodox churches, lecturing in educational institutions. It is planned to carry out work on the rehabilitation of drug addicts in special camps, where priests and doctors will work together.

By order of Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has been appointed head of the government commission on religious associations. Minister of Culture and Mass Communications Alexander Sokolov has been relieved of his post as chairman of the commission. Sources First Deputy Prime Minister Medvedev headed the government commission on issues of religious associations // Interfax-religion. 2006. April 12.

On April 11, 2006, the Basmanny Court of Moscow held the final hearing on the claim of the anti-Semitic writer Mikhail Nazarov against the Chief Rabbis of Russia Berl Lazar (FEOR), Adolf Shayevich (KEROOR), Rabbi Zinovy ​​Kogan, President of the Russian Jewish Congress Vladimir Slutsker and Director of the Moscow Bureau of human rights to Alexander Brod. The court denied Nazarov's claim on all counts.

On April 11, 2006, in St. Petersburg, an activist of the "Defence", deputy chairman of the anti-fascist organization "Solidarity" Alexander Tyrshklevich was beaten. Unknown persons attacked him at the entrance of his house. At present, A. Tyrshklevich is in a state of moderate severity in one of the city hospitals. Based on Internet blogs

In April 2006, our Center became aware of another crime committed by skinheads at the end of 2005. On December 18, 2005, at about 4:00 pm, a 30-year-old resident of the Moscow region, Kurban Pakirov, was killed in one of the suburban electric trains of the Kursk direction. That day he went to Moscow to meet with friends. According to eyewitnesses, on one of the hauls, three shaven-headed thugs entered the car, who began to look for people of "non-Slavic appearance" among the passengers.

On April 10, 2006, the Moscow City Court rejected the cassation appeal of National Bolshevik lawyer Sergei Reznichenko, who was convicted of biting a guard during the process of seizing the public reception office of the president, and upheld the verdict.