a suspect in the case of the murder at Pushkinskaya, On April 25, the Cheryomushkinsky court extended the detention of Denis Kulagin, by 72 hours. The prosecutor's office asked for an arrest warrant, but the court only partially granted the request. D. Kulagin has not yet been formally charged. During the investigation, the original version of events changed.

On April 26, 2006, in Tomsk, police detained participants in an unsanctioned rally of the United Civil Front, timed to coincide with the visit of German Chancellor Angela Merkel to the city. The action was attended by 100 to 500 people, including German citizens. The leader of the Tomsk branch of the United Civil Front, Ivan Tyutrin, said that even before the start of the action, two activists were detained - their car with slogans was stopped by law enforcement officers.

At the beginning of 2006, a criminal case was initiated in Kirov against the neo-pagan local historian Valery Ponomarev. The FSB department for the Kirov region conducted an audit, which showed that V. Ponomarev " "undermined trust and respect for persons of Jewish nationality and their religion . And also "caused hostility and a feeling of hatred for the way of life, culture, traditions, religious rites of the Jews .

The review brought to the attention of readers is devoted to the issues of consideration by the European Court of Human Rights of complaints coming from the Russian Federation, as well as state and public initiatives aimed at implementing the decisions taken by the Court. The review was prepared within the framework of the project "Development of a Multifunctional Analytical Center for Democracy and Human Rights", implemented by the "Demos" Center and its partners.

On April 26, 2006, the trial of the attack on two Sudanese citizens in the Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Voronezh was terminated due to the reconciliation of the parties. The trial, in the indictment of which there was a motive of national hatred, began on April 18 .

On April 20, the birthday of Adolf Hitler, a synagogue in Orenburg was attacked. A group of teenagers threw stones at windows and shouted anti-Semitic slogans. There were no casualties. The authors of the message from the Orenburg TV and Radio Company call the attackers both skinheads and National Bolsheviks. A 15-year-old boy has been arrested. On the fact of the attack, a criminal case was opened under Art. 231 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (hooliganism).

The court of Nizhnevartovsk passed a guilty verdict on a member of the Hizb ut-Tahrir organization, a citizen of Uzbekistan, Ismail Nurmatov, who was detained in December 2005 in Moscow.

On April 25, 2006, on the eve of the Russian-German summit in Tomsk, there were attacks on activists of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of the Tomsk Region (SKT). Four unidentified persons, without presenting any documents, burst into the office of SKT activist Igor Kuznetsov and took away flags with the SKT logo, a megaphone and an information stand.

In April 2006, a criminal case was initiated in Kirov under Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“incitement of national, racial or religious hatred”) against Valery Goncharov, head of the regional branch of the Unity party and brother of G. Goncharov, one of the leaders of the Kirov United Russia party . As was established by the prosecutor's check, in November-December 2005, 51-year-old V.

On April 20, 2006, an act of vandalism was committed in Orenburg. Around 19 o'clock. a group of teenagers (apparently local, skinheads) staged a pogrom in the local synagogue. According to eyewitnesses, they smashed windows with stones, kicked doors, shouted anti-Semitic slogans and left behind fascist inscriptions on the fence, made in black paint. On this fact, a criminal case was initiated in the Leninsky district police department of the city under Art.

On April 26, IslamNews.ru, citing the Ark project, reported the existence of photographs showing the beating of Imam A. Stepanenko in the temporary detention facility. On April 1, he was transferred from the pre-trial detention center (SIZO 26-2 in Pyatigorsk) to the temporary detention center (IVS of the Internal Affairs Directorate of Pyatigorsk), about which his lawyers were not informed. On April 3, Stepanenko was interrogated despite the absence of lawyers.

On April 26, 2006, the Leninsky District Court of Kemerovo sentenced Kemerovo University student Konstantin Strokolsky to 2 years of probation with a probationary period of one year under Art. 280 part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“public calls for extremist activities using the media”) and art. 282 part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("incitement of hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity").

On April 25, 2006, in the Dokuzparinsky district of Dagestan, more than 300 (according to other sources, up to 700) people blocked the highway and demanded the resignation of the head of the district administration, Kerimkhan Abasov. Police and riot police officers who arrived at the scene tried to unblock the road, using weapons.

At the end of April 2006, a 21-year-old student of the Kemerovo State University, Konstantin Strokolsky, was sentenced in Kemerovo for posting an article with extremist content on the Internet. A 4th year student of the Faculty of Philology and Journalism K.Strokolsky (member of the NBP) was convicted by the Leninsky District Court of Kemerovo under Part 2 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public calls for extremist activities using the media) and Part 1 of Art.

On April 23, in the village of Spassk, Tashtagol District, Kemerovo Region, members of the Reconciliation Church of Evangelical Christians were beaten. A group of young people from 18 to 25 entered the House of Culture, where about 300 believers had gathered for the Easter service. All were in a state of intoxication, tk. celebrated a birthday. They declared that the Pentecostals are a sect, and began to molest the girls.