Evgeny Gildeev, deputy head of the information and public relations department of the Moscow police department, told reporters that on April 16, Palm Sunday, 47,000 people attended festive services in the capital's Orthodox churches. "For comparison, last year this figure was 35,000 people," E. Gildeev said. At the same time, according to him, 147 thousand people visited the cemeteries of Moscow and the nearest suburbs - several thousand more than in 2005.

The regional government allocated two million rubles for the repair of the Tyumen Cathedral Mosque, Islam-Info news agency reports . Galimzhan Bikmullin, head of the regional Muslim Spiritual Muslim Board, told the agency that this would be the first overhaul of the mosque built in 1989-1997. Work should begin with the onset of warm days. Sources The government of the Tyumen region allocated 2 million for the repair of the Tyumen Cathedral Mosque // IA "Islam-Info". 2006. April 17.

On March 29, 2006, a trial began in the Nizhny Novgorod Region in the case of 19-year-old Alexander Vedeneev, who attacked two citizens of the DPRK. The prosecutor of the Nizhny Novgorod region, Vladimir Demidov, represented the prosecution at the trial. At the hearing, the defendant rejected the allegations of an attack on Koreans motivated by national or racial hatred. According to him, there was no motive for the attack at all - " "I just wanted to fight . Let us recall that A.

After the trial, in which the participants in the murder of nine-year-old Tajik Khursheda Sultonova were convicted of "hooliganism", while completely eliminating the motive of national hatred, after the attempted murder of nine-year-old mulatto Liliana Sissoko, after the appearance on the Internet of "Instructions on street terror", which surpassed the most disgusting texts in meanness ideologues of Hitler's Nazism - after all this, the unnatural and insulting phrase "Petersburg fascism" became

On the night of April 15-16, 2006, an activist of the Irkutsk branch of the NBP, Mikhail Uchitel, was detained, who was posting leaflets calling for a boycott of the referendum held in the region. M. Uchitel spent the night in the police department of the Kirovsky district of Irkutsk. A protocol on administrative violation was drawn up against him. Sources There will be no referendum! Down with the pipe! // NBP-Info. 2006. April 16.

On April 13, 2006, NBP leaflet distributors Konstantin Makarov and Sergei Dolgikh were detained in Voronezh. The detainees were taken to the Leninsky District Department of Internal Affairs of Voronezh, where they were kept "for a conversation" for more than 4 hours. The National Bolsheviks were demanded to stop all activity, otherwise they were threatened with reprisals: they promised to plant weapons or drugs, and in general they promised " to "arrange a fun life .

On April 13, 2006, the department of internal affairs of the Fokinsky district of Bryansk prevented a mass brawl involving skinheads. The department of internal affairs of the Fokinsky district of the city of Bryansk received operational information that, at about 19.30, a mass brawl with the participation of skinheads is planned near the cemetery of the village of Kovshovka, Fokinsky district.

On the night of April 2, vandals once again destroyed several dozen graves at the Baptist cemetery in Orel. This time, 43 graves were damaged, according to Portal-Credo.ru, citing the regional newspaper Expanses of Russia. According to one of the workers at a local funeral parlor, "this is the fourth desecration in the last seven years." Sources Vandals desecrated 43 graves at the cemetery in Orel // Portal-Credo.ru. 2006. April 15.

Deputies of the city assembly of Kursk each received a copy of a 35-page brochure devoted to the activities of Jehovah's Witnesses in the Kursk region and calling for a fight against this religious organization. The brochure was prepared and published jointly by the administration of the region and the local diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.

On April 16, 2006, at about 18:00 in Moscow, near the Domodedovskaya metro station, skinheads killed a 19-year-old punk anti-fascist, a 3rd year student of the Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics, Alexander Ryukhin. On the way to a punk/hardcore concert at the Planet of Ice club, A. Ryukhin and his friend were attacked by 6-8 people.

Islam.Ru reports that in the city of Salavat (Bashkortostan), the FSB is putting pressure on Usman Ismagilov, the editor of the local Islamic newspaper Hidayat, the second issue of which has recently gone out of print: giving no reason to do so." According to human rights activist Ismail Saifullin, after the publication of the first issue of the newspaper, Salavat Muslims were summoned to the FSB and threatened with arrest.

On April 15, 2006, OMON dispersed an unsanctioned rally of defrauded landowners in Moscow. The protesters gathered near the building of the Historical Museum and tried to go to Red Square. People with posters and the organizers of the action were detained. Nevertheless, about half of the protesters remained at the place of the action. Police officers rudely demanded that the protesters disperse, and journalists were not allowed to record on a dictaphone.

Dear Valentina Ivanovna! Speaking on March 29 in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg regarding the ethnically motivated murders taking place in the city, you said: " "We are ready for a dialogue with society . We are far from placing responsibility for the growth of spontaneous and organized crime in St. Petersburg on the basis of racial and national hatred, first of all, on the city authorities and personally on you.

In issue 14 of the magazine "Expert" for 2006, an article by the governor of the Tver region Dmitry Zelenin "Liberal conservatism" was published. D. Zelenin makes an attempt to define the ideology necessary for the "United Russia" party. "Liberalism should become the ideology of Russia's leading political force ," he writes. " However, in order to be successful in our country, liberalism must be Russian, conservative, social and applied .

On April 15, 2006, at about 10:00 pm in St. Petersburg, students from Mongolia were attacked at the Moskovskiye Vorota metro station. About 10 young people in scarves with the symbols of the football club "Zenit" beat two citizens of Mongolia, a student of the State University of Technology and Design and a student of the State University of Low-Temperature Food Technologies, in an electric train car, after which they fled the scene.