The international investment forum "New in the Russian investment process" has opened in the Tver region. It was organized by the Administration of the Tver Region, the Main Directorate of the Diplomatic Corps of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and the Investment Programs of the Russian Orthodox Church.

On May 5, 2006, the Central District Court of Tyumen convicted a young man who calls himself a skinhead for the murder of a homeless resident of the city. August 2005 The court sentenced the skinhead to 11 years in prison to be served in a penal colony with a strict regime. In the beating of three homeless people on August 26, 2005, in addition to the person convicted of murder, two more teenagers participated. However, whether they were convicted, we do not know. Sources Zaprudin G.

The review by Svetlana Kovaleva, brought to the attention of readers, is devoted to various kinds of protest actions that took place in April. The review was prepared by the Demos Center with the support of the OSI - Assistance Foundation. Anti-militarist rallies and actions against conscription reform On April 1 , actions timed to coincide with the start of the army draft were held in 30 regions of Russia. All of them, without exception, were "party".

At the end of May 2006, the preliminary investigation into the case of the explosion of the train Grozny - Moscow, committed on June 12, 2005, was completed. The criminal case, consisting of 25 volumes, was sent for consideration on the merits to the Moscow Regional Court. The accused are being held in custody. Recall that Moscow residents Mikhail Klevachev and Vladimir Vlasov were involved as defendants in the case.

On May 23, Metropolitan Sergiy (Fomin) of Voronezh and Borisoglebsk handed over to representatives of a regional public organization of relatives of servicemen who died in peacetime a check for about 145,000 rubles. The money was donated in the churches of the diocese on Radonitsa. The diocesan administration called on believers to raise funds after the appeal of the widows of military personnel. Sources Orthodox Voronezh residents collected 145 thousand rubles.

May 26, 2006 In Kaliningrad, police detained an activist of the National Bolshevik Party German Franchenko, who was participating in a protest against the presence of a NATO delegation in the city.

On May 22-23, 2006, at the entrance to the Planernaya metro station, activists of the Russian Society movement, which is close in its rhetoric to the DPNI, held a nationalist rally.

The review by Maria Voskobitova and Olga Shepeleva, brought to the attention of readers, is devoted to the issues of consideration by the European Court of Human Rights of complaints received from the Russian Federation, as well as state and public initiatives aimed at implementing the decisions taken by the Court.

On May 18-21, 2006, in St. Petersburg, law enforcement authorities rounded up and arrested a group of skinheads suspected of a series of racist killings committed in the city in 2004 and 2005. On 18 May, police attempted to arrest Dmitry Borovikov, leader of Mad Crowd gang, a wanted suspect since 2004. (To remind, 6 members of the group were convicted in December 2005). Dmitry Borovikov was suspected, in particular, of killing Samba Lampsara, a student from Senegal, on April 7, 2006.

Ryazan believers appealed to the prosecutor's office with a request to bring to criminal responsibility opponents of the possible transfer of the complex of the historical and architectural museum-reserve "Ryazan Kremlin". According to the applicants, those who oppose the transfer of the Kremlin to the Church make statements on the Internet ( we are probably talking about the forum of the Ryazan Kremlin - Ed.

The Federal Service for Supervision of Compliance with Legislation in the Sphere of Mass Communications (Rosokhrankultura) filed a lawsuit to terminate the activities of the Duel newspaper. The application to the court was preceded by two warnings issued to the newspaper Rosokhrankultura: March 20 and April 26, 2006.

On May 25, 2006, the report of the public commission on the investigation of the events of April 25, 2006 in the Dokuzparinsky district of Dagestan was presented in Moscow. The report was compiled on the basis of materials provided by the participants in the events, as well as the results of a trip to the scene of the events by commission members L. Ponomarev and A. Politkovskaya.

On May 26, 2006, the State Duma of the Russian Federation received a draft federal law on the exclusion of the “against all” column from ballots during elections at all levels of government. The bill was introduced by the Legislative Assembly of the Tver Region.

On May 25, 2006, police and SOBR units in Perm confiscated servers from the Alfa group of enterprises, which owns the weekly newspaper Permskiy Obozrevatel, which is in opposition to the Perm governor, and the Perm Neighbors website. The reason for the seizure was a criminal case initiated on the basis of the statement of journalist Irina Kolushinskaya about the protection of her honor and dignity, which, in her opinion, were infringed on the pages of the site's forum.

On the evening of May 25, 2006 in Moscow, activists of the Russian National Union (RONS) and the national-patriotic front "Pamyat" attacked a group of rastafarians (about 25 people) who were playing drums on the street. Kuznetsky bridge, near the metro. Nationalists, lining up in a chain and chanting nationalist slogans, forced the rastafarians out of the street, while several musicians were kicked, others were pelted with eggs and rotten tomatoes.