On May 11, 2005, the Kirovsky District Court of Saratov sentenced Maksim Tyurin, born in 1985, for painting swastikas and anti-Semitic inscriptions on the building of the Jewish charitable center "Hasdei Yerushalayim." He was convicted under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“incitement of hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity”) and Article 214 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“vandalism”) and sentenced to two years of

On May 9, 2006 in Voronezh, skinheads laid wreaths at the monument to the Heroes of Glory with the inscriptions "To fallen soldiers from Voronezh skinheads 14", "To Russian soldiers from the national-patriotic front" . This became known on May 12, 2006 from a message sent by e-mail from the address nazi-88 to the editorial office of the Voronezh newspaper "MOYO!".

Islam.Ru, citing human rights activist Ismail Saifullin, reports that in Almetyevsk, employees of the local Organized Crime Control Department put pressure on Muslims, summon them for interrogations and "demand to confess to extremist activities, to get acquainted with people unknown to them, and to give other information compromising them. Interrogations are accompanied by threats and insults. “According to I.

On May 12, 2006, within the framework of the project "Counteracting Hate Speech in the Russian Mass Media", a discussion was held in Vladivostok with the participation of representatives of the regional administration, public organizations, ethnic and religious communities and journalists of the Primorsky Territory.

An analysis of recent events in state and church life (primarily the approval of the composition of the government commission on issues of religious associations and the Orthodox-Catholic conference "Giving Europe a Soul" held in Vienna) led journalist Svetlana Solodovnik, a regular contributor to the Daily Journal, to "quite definite conclusions about the further development of relations between the Church and the state and the ideological component of our near future".

On May 16, the Security Committee of the State Duma held a round table on the problems of legislation and law enforcement in the field of countering extremism. The meeting was chaired by the Chairman of the Committee Vladimir Vasiliev. He also made an introductory report (see his summary ).

On May 16, 2006, the verdict of the Pervomaisky District Court of Krasnodar on the liquidation in the city of the activities of the nationalist organization "Rada of the Land of the Kuban Spiritual and Tribal Power Rus" entered into force.

On May 9 in Novosibirsk the Church of Evangelical Christians "Word of Life" tried to hold a meeting with servicemen of one of the military units.

Blagovest-info reports that on May 13, a letter was sent to thirteen patriarchs, metropolitans and archbishops - primates of Orthodox autocephalous churches, in which representatives of the Tbilisi intelligentsia express their indignation at the situation that has developed in the Moscow church of St. George in Georgians - the only one in Moscow where divine services are held in Georgian.

On March 24, Georgy Poltavchenko, the plenipotentiary representative of the President in the Central Federal District, received a request from State Duma deputy P.A. Pozhigailo. The document stated that a number of cultural heritage sites transferred in the 1990s.

On May 15, the presentation of a special report by the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation Vladimir Lukin "Human Rights and the Modernization of Russian Education" (April) took place.

"Novaya Gazeta" reports that in Samara the building of the Polish church, the first Catholic church in the city, was put up for auction (they were scheduled for May 15). “In 1995 (Decree of the President of the Russian Federation), it became a federal monument called the “temple complex,” the newspaper writes.

In January 2006, the Primorsky Department of Rosokhrankultura issued a warning to the Russian Club newspaper (an organ of the public organization of the same name ) for publishing xenophobic and extremist materials.