On May 24, 2006, in the City Court of St. Petersburg, a jury began considering the merits of the criminal case on the murder of Epassac Roland Franza, a citizen of the Republic of the Congo. Recall that in the dock are four Petersburgers aged 17-23 (Viktor Orlov, Yuri Gromov, Andrey Olenev and Andrey Gerasimov), who are accused of murder motivated by ethnic hatred. During the hearing, the indictment was read and several witnesses were questioned. On July 20, 2006, the City Court of St.

On May 24, 2006, the Moscow City Court annulled the Decree of the Deputy Basmanny District Court of Moscow, federal judge A.N. the fact of conducting two anti-Semitic campaigns in 2005 ( "letter 500" and "letter 5000" ). The decision was canceled on the basis of a cassation complaint by Yevgeny Ikhlov, a representative of the For Human Rights movement. Newsletter of the movement "For Human Rights".

On May 22, 2006, in St. Petersburg, the court of district no. 208 considered the case of an administrative offense under Art. 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, initiated against four participants in a protest action near the Taurida Palace on April 27, 2006 The judge decided to stop the proceedings in the case due to the lack of corpus delicti against the three National Bolsheviks.

In Vladimir "Ours" organized a meeting of Deacon Andrey Kuraev with the youth. According to the local newspaper "Molva", the organizers classified the place and time of the meeting. Gorky only half. Sources Media materials: "Pop music of Orthodoxy. Deacon Kuraev "on tour" in Vladimir told stories and called on the laity and the Church to dialogue" // Interfax-religion. 2006. May 24. (Article by E. Arefieva from the Vladimir newspaper "Molva" dated May 20, 2006)

Employees of the department for combating terrorism and extremism of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Orenburg region detained a resident of the Chelyabinsk region suspected of distributing Hizb ut-Tahrir leaflets. 80 leaflets of this organization were found and confiscated from the detainee, containing, according to a representative of the press service of the Internal Affairs Directorate, calls for violence.

On May 23, 2006, it became known that the prosecutor's office of the Ivanovo region opened a criminal case under Art. 319 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“insulting a government official”) against the editor-in-chief of the online publication Kursiv, Vladimir Rakhmankov.

On May 23, 2006, Sergei Mironov, Chairman of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, commented on the dispersal of a rally of deceived co-investors in Moscow. In his opinion, among those who were in the tent city, "there were the least deceived real estate investors . " "There were other people who, under any circumstances, are looking for a reason to show oppression, persecution, violations of democracy. These are all elements of the technologies of the "orange" revolutions.

On May 24, 2006, the Moscow Regional Court returned to the prosecutor's office the criminal case on the murder of Armenian citizen Samvel Tadevosyan. According to the court, the case was remanded in connection with the violation of the charge. The decision to return the case was made by the court during the preliminary hearing, having satisfied the petition of the defendants' lawyers. Sources Case of skinheads accused of murdering Armenian returned to prosecutor's office // Gzt.ru. 2006.

Credo.ru reports on an "anti-sectarian campaign" in the Magadan region that began in the late 1990s. In 2002, under pressure from Bishop Feofan (Ashurkov), who then headed the Magadan See, representatives of Catholics and Protestants were removed from the Commission on Religious Organizations under the governor of the region. In 2004, with the support of the chairman of this commission, Alexandra Pospelova, the adoption of the regional law on the regulation of missionary activity was initiated.

On May 24, 2006, the deputies of the Legislative Chamber of the Republic of Tyva adopted an Appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin in connection with the growing number of crimes committed on the basis of national hatred. "The deputies of the Legislative Chamber condemn the increasing cases of crimes committed on the basis of ethnic hostility. With our Appeal, we express the opinion of the inhabitants of the republic.

On May 23, 2006, Ilya Ivanov, an activist of the National Bolshevik Party , was charged under Art. 280 part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“public calls to carry out extremist activities using the media”). I. Ivanov is under house arrest. Sources Kemerovo National Bolshevik charged // NBP-Info. 2006. May 23.

May 23, 2006 in the center of Tambov on a building located near the library. Pushkin, the inscription "Beat the Jews!!!" and a swastika. This is the second act of vandalism in Tambov in the last month. On April 23, on Orthodox Easter Day, unknown people painted the church of Evangelical Christians (Baptists) with the stars of David. According to representatives of the Jewish community, "thereby expressing their dislike for both Jews and non-Orthodox Christians .

On May 23, 2006, it became known that a psychological and psychiatric examination in a hospital recognized one of the defendants in the case of preparing terrorist attacks, the Novosibirsk National Bolshevik Nikolai Baluev, as insane . N. Baluev's lawyer Petr Fesenko reported that his client, placed in a separate cell, developed a reactive psychosis. The lawyer intends to petition for sending Baluev for treatment to a hospital and lifting the measure of restraint in the form of arrest.

On May 24, 2006, the trial began in Rostov-on-Don in the case of Vadim Domnitsky, accused of attacking synagogue parishioners on January 13, 2006. At the court session, 15 witnesses and a synagogue security guard, who was recognized as a victim, were interrogated. The trial was held without the participation of the accused, who is in a pre-trial detention center. Earlier, according to an examination conducted at the Moscow Institute of Social and Forensic Psychiatry.

On May 19, 2006, the apartments of several students of Cheboksary universities who joined the Communist Party of the Russian Federation were visited by employees of the Organized Crime Control Department, who, after asking the parents of the students what party their children belong to, explained that they were looking for young people in order to take them to the Moscow District Department of Internal Affairs to testify .