On April 22, 2006, a sanctioned anti-fascist picket was held in Tyumen, where one of its organizers, the head of the ShizLong human rights center, Dmitry Yamshchikov, was detained. Shortly after the start of the rally, people who introduced themselves as law enforcement officers demanded to end the event, detained D. Yamshchikov and escorted him to the police station, and during the arrest "they used force, despite the absence of resistance" .

In March 2006, the Federal Service for Supervision of Compliance with Legislation in the Sphere of Mass Communications and the Protection of Cultural Heritage (Rosokhrankultura) issued a warning to the Duel newspaper for publishing extremist materials.

On April 22, 2006, the head of the department of culture of the Moscow Union of Armenians, Sedrak Patikyan, announced that the Moscow authorities had banned a picket in memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide in 1916 near the building of the EU representation. The Union of Armenians of Russia planned to hold two pickets - at the Turkish embassy in Moscow and at the building of the EU representation, however, only a picket at the Turkish embassy with no more than 50 people was sanctioned.

On the evening of April 22, 2006, in Moscow, on the platform of the Pushkinskaya metro station, 17-year-old native of Baku of Armenian origin Vigen Abramyants, a first-year student at the Moscow Institute of Management, was killed.

More than five million Orthodox Russians took part in the solemn Easter services. The press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia told journalists that "festive services and religious processions on the occasion of the holiday were held in 8.7 thousand Russian churches and temples. As of 17:00 Moscow time on April 23, 5 million took part in them.

On April 22, 2006 in Tyumen, a group of activists from the human rights center "ShizLong" held an anti-fascist picket on the central square under the slogans "Stop fascism", "Skinheads on trial", "Being a fascist is a shame", "Neo-fascism - where are the authorities looking?" etc. During the picket, a conflict arose between its participants and the communists, who were holding their own event nearby.

The Prosecutor's Office of Kostroma initiated a criminal case under Art. 282 part 2 p. "a" of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("inciting national, racial and religious hatred") against three residents of the city on the fact of attacking students from China. The attackers were detained in hot pursuit by riot police. Another criminal case has been opened against one of them under the same article - he is also suspected of beating a schoolgirl, a native of Azerbaijan.

On behalf of the head of the government of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, everyone who came to the Church of the Archangel Michael in Grozny on Easter was given one thousand rubles by members of the organizing committee for the celebration of Easter. "In total, the parish council of the church presented lists for 730 people, and money was given to each of them. Funds for about 200 people who are sick and elderly were delivered to their homes," R. Kadyrov told Interfax .

April 23, 2006 in Moscow at about 20:00. at the station "Ulitsa 1905 Goda", a group of young people burst into a subway car, shouting "Russia for Russians! " According to an eyewitness, for about a minute, the skinheads severely beat their victim, while the blows were applied mainly to the head area. Part of the group at that time remained on the platform, and part held the car doors.

On April 24, 2006, information appeared that the Barnaul court had acquitted the detained participants in the rally on March 25, 2006 in defense of human rights and freedoms. The cases were dismissed for lack of corpus delicti. Most of the participants were acquitted, but the rally participants depicted in photographs that were published in local newspapers were fined 500 rubles each.

On April 23, 2006, Ilya Ivanov, an activist of the National Bolshevik Party, was detained in Omsk and taken to the Kemerovo department of the FSB. The investigator of the FSB Department for the Kemerovo region informed I. Ivanov about the initiation of a criminal case against him under Art. 280 part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“public calls for extremist activity using the media”).

In Moscow, the prosecutor's office of the Eastern District initiated a criminal case under Art. 111 part 4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (deliberate infliction of grievous bodily harm, negligently resulting in the death of the victim) on the fact of the death of a Tajik citizen who died on the way to the hospital as a result of stab wounds inflicted on him by unknown persons.

April 22, 2006 in the eastern district of Moscow on the street. Boitsovaya street attacked two 25-year-old citizens of Tajikistan. Unknown persons inflicted multiple stab wounds on them and fled. The wounded were picked up by a Muscovite passing by in a VAZ-2105 car. One of the victims, who received 17 stab wounds, died in the cabin of his car, the second wounded with a stab wound to the abdomen was taken to the hospital. into the attack A criminal case has been initiated .

On April 20, 2006, a nationalistic incident was prevented by law enforcement officers in Novosibirsk. About 20 local skinheads dressed in black leather jackets gathered at the main entrance to the Novosibirsk State University building. The head of security drew attention to the suspicious group and noticed that they were looking for students of non-Slavic appearance in the crowd.

On April 22, 2006, Turkish citizen Gul Orhan was attacked at the Avtovo metro station in St. Petersburg. According to the victim, he was beaten by three young people in an electric train car. Three unemployed residents of the Leningrad region aged 23, 31 and 18 were detained on suspicion of the attack. On the fact of beating, a criminal case was initiated under article 116 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (beatings).