According to the Moscow police department, on April 30, on the day of Antipascha ("Red Hill"), more than 30 thousand Orthodox believers visited churches and over 190 thousand - cemeteries. A total of 224,000 people visited churches and cemeteries. Sources 224,000 Muscovites visited churches and cemeteries on Krasnaya Gorka // Week.ru. 2006. May 1.

A number of media reports reported an attack on the head of the St. Irinea Lyonsky Alexander Dvorkina. In the passage of the Lubyanka metro station, he was allegedly beaten by a 33-year-old Hare Krishna, an unregistered citizen of Moldova. However, the Moscow City Internal Affairs Directorate denied this information.

On April 26, new court hearings began in the case of Ravil Gumarov, Timur Ishmuratov and Fanis Shaikhutdinov, who were accused of organizing an explosion in Bugulma and found not guilty . The acquittal was later overturned . On March 7, F. Shaikhutdinov and R. Gumarov were again detained in Moscow.

On May 2, 2006, in Moscow, in the passage of Shokalsky, a corpse of Chinese citizen Li Zhi Wei. Body, with traces of beatings and multiple stab wounds were found near the house 49. In connection with the murder, criminal case under Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder). The incident became known in August 2010, due to notification of the arrest of suspects. Sources Moscow police detained suspects in the murder of a Chinese citizen // RIA News. 2010. August 27.

In March 2005, a nationalist incident took place in a Moscow subway car. In the train car, a group of skinheads stuck to a Tuvan girl. One of them approached her with a demand to leave the city, the other showed a tattooed swastika. Underage skinheads did not beat the passenger, arguing that there were not too many of them. The girl got off at the next stop. Based on Internet forums.

On May 30 and 1, 2006, skinheads and Orthodox activists attacked gay clubs in Moscow. On the night of May 1, 2006 in Moscow, skinheads and representatives of the Orthodox community attacked the gay club "Renaissance event club" (formerly the venue for the De La Guarda show), located at the address: st. Ordzhonikidze, 11. The attack was organized by the Russian National Union (RONS), headed by I. Artemov.

In Novokuznetsk, vandals painted black paint on a chapel built in 2005 in memory of the dead miners. The investigation into the incident was taken under control by the governor of the Kemerovo region Aman Tuleev. Sources In Novokuznetsk, vandals desecrated a chapel built in memory of the dead miners // Interfax-religion. 2006. May 2.

President of the Association of Religious Communities of Modern Judaism in Russia Zinovy ​​Kogan wrote a letter of resignation from this post. The reason for leaving, according to him, was "theological differences" with other rabbis of modern Judaism, whose views Z. Kogan considers "too radical for Russia." "Religion and Media", referring to an unnamed source, claims that the wedding of two girls, conducted by Rabbi Nelly Shulman, served as the reason for the resignation of Z. Kogan.

On April 8, 2006 in St. Petersburg, skinheads attacked a 5th year student from Tuva in a subway underpass in St. Petersburg. Fortunately, the student managed to escape. According to the victim, this is not the first time this has happened to him. Based on Internet forums.

Since the beginning of 2006, at least three people, including one girl, have been injured in two attacks by skinheads in Tomsk. The victims of the attacks were Tuvan students studying at one of the universities in the city. Fortunately, the young people were not seriously injured, and even managed to repulse the skinheads. The details of the incidents are unknown. Information Sayany Mongush ("Tuva-Online")

The Commonwealth of Christian Churches, which unites Voronezh Protestant communities, has started implementing the social project "Feel the power of change!" since April. The program is designed for a month and a half and involves helping socially unprotected people: the lonely, the disabled, the elderly, the poor, those in prison, representatives of various "risk groups". The project, according to its coordinator Vyacheslav Oleinik, is devoid of any confessional orientation.

The organizers of the Moscow International Gay Festival "Moscow. Pride '06" received an official response from the Tverskoy Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office of Moscow regarding Talgat Tadzhuddin's statements. Recall that in February, the Supreme Mufti of Russia (Central Spiritual Administration of Muslims) called for "beating" the participants of the gay parade, if it takes place. The prosecutor's office, after analyzing the interview of T.

The Voronezh consulting center "Content" conducted a survey among citizens. According to the data received, 6% of the polled residents of Voronezh observed Great Lent. 13% answered that they fasted with some relaxations, "another 6% did not fast for the entire period of fasting, but only part of it. 62% of the study participants did not fast at all, and 11% did not see the need for it. 2% of respondents declined to answer . A total of 200 people were interviewed.

On May 2, 2006, the Moscow Metro prosecutor's office completed the investigation and transferred to court a criminal case accusing Vitaly Golikov and Vyacheslav Barketov of beating NTV employee Elkham Mirzoev. V. Golikov and V.

On April 29, a convoy of buses and private cars, on which Muslim youth traveled to the picnic site at the invitation of the Khadija General Educational Charitable Foundation, was stopped by police officers from the city of Yakhroma. Arriving with the convoy to a private area equipped for leisure activities, the policemen, without obtaining permission, entered its territory and proceeded to record passport data and videotape those present.