addressed to Yuri Luzhkov Representatives of the Moscow Central Church of Evangelical Christians "Emmanuel" sent a letter , in which they again complained about the arbitrariness of the capital's officials. Since May 2005, Pentecostals have been protesting against the refusal of the Moscow authorities to allocate land for them to build a prayer house. On June 7, 2006, the ministers of the "Emmanuel" church were summoned to the Office for Work with Security Bodies of the Moscow Government.

On June 14, 2006, the American non-governmental organization Freedom House presented its report in Moscow, which assessed the situation with freedoms in Russia in 2005 and early 2006. The pressure on the media and the concentration of full power in its executive branch moved Russia from the category of "partially free" to the top 45 "not free" countries, the authors of the report said. “We are concerned about the trends in this country.

On June 12, 2006, the presentation of the book by Eduard Limonov "Limonov against Putin" was canceled at the last moment in Moscow, which was supposed to take place in the "Ulitsa OGI" club. According to a report posted on the NBP-Info website, the owners of the club were pressured by high-ranking police officers, as well as representatives of special services, who demanded that the event be cancelled. Threatening letters also came to the owners of the club.

On June 13, 2006, the State Duma of the Russian Federation received a bill providing for the deregistration of candidates for elections at all levels if they made statements of an extremist or nationalist nature, including before their official registration by the election commission. The bill was prepared by representatives of the parliamentary factions United Russia, Motherland and the Liberal Democratic Party.

On June 11, 2006, a public lecture was held in Perm by Sergei Mironov, Chairman of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation. However, the police did not let public activist Roman Yushkov and four of his comrades, well-known in the city, into the hall. When R. Yushkov, indignant at what was happening, according to him, began to loudly appeal to the media about the injustice that was happening, all five were detained, accused of holding an unsanctioned rally. R.

The Minister of Culture and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation Alexander Sokolov said that the Peter and Paul Cathedral (St. Petersburg) can combine the functions of a museum and a temple. The church proposed to hold regular services in the cathedral, the ministry has already "discussed this issue." Since "the Peter and Paul Cathedral is not just a tourist attraction, but also the tomb of Russian sovereigns, and we need to think about how to combine the completely connectable", A.

In Rostov-on-Don, a trial is underway in the case of 20-year-old Alexander Kuvikov , who is accused of inciting national and racial hatred and enmity (Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) against citizens of the republics of Cape Verde and Angola. Hearings on this case began in March 2006 at the Sovetsky District Court of the city. On June 8, the prosecutor and the lawyer were supposed to debate, but, at the request of the lawyer, the hearing was postponed.

At the beginning of June 2006, a student was beaten by skinheads in the center of Yaroslavl. The attackers did not like the "informal" appearance of the young man, in particular - dreadlocks (African braids). The student received a concussion; He had a girl with him who was also hurt. The same source reports another case of attacks on "informal" students (punks), who were also beaten in the city center by three skinheads. Unfortunately, we cannot date this incident.

On June 12, 2006, in Kaliningrad, unidentified persons in masks and with baseball bats made several attacks on trailers inhabited by guest workers from Central Asia over the course of one day. Three men broke into one of the trailers where the workers lived late in the evening and severely beat three immigrants from Kyrgyzstan. Mobile phones and money were confiscated from guest workers. Several victims were hospitalized.

On May 20, 2006, an African was beaten by a group of skinheads on the platform of the Tverskaya metro station. The details of the incident and the exact time are unknown. According to an eyewitness, an "informal" girl stood up for the beaten man, and the men present at the incident stood up not for the African, but only for the girl. Apparently, the attack took place late in the evening, as eyewitnesses to the incident were returning from a rock concert.

On June 8-10, 2006, the international conference "The Future of the White World" was held in Moscow. The meeting, organized on the initiative of the magazine "Anetey" and the Russian center "European Synergies", was of a pronounced racist nature, the reports sounded the relevant ideas. The conference was held in the assembly hall of the International Foundation for Slavic Literature and Culture in Chernigovsky Lane under the motto "White people of the whole world, unite!" .

On June 14, the State Duma adopted in the third reading a package of laws providing for the abolition of a number of deferrals from military service. Among other things, the postponement for citizens using benefits on the basis of the relevant presidential decree has been canceled.

On the night of June 8-9, 2006 in Mytishchi, Moscow Region, police detained two activists of the Union of Communist Youth (SCM) - Artur Zemlyanikin and an unnamed girl. The young people were handcuffed and detained by police officers in civilian clothes, after which they were taken to the police station, and during the detention they planted a bag with leaflets. On the way, the militiamen let slip that the detention of the SCM activists had been carried out at the direction of the authorities.

On June 8, 2006, the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation published a letter addressed to the election commissions of the regions, which, in particular, states that if a campaign material is submitted to the media editors that “clearly incites social, racial, national, religious hatred and enmity, or contains signs of abuse of freedom of the mass media" , the media itself has the right to refuse to provide airtime or print space to a party out of court.

On June 11, 2006, representatives of the regional branch of the United Civil Front (UCF) were attacked in Voronezh. Near the office of the front, Alexander Nazarenko was hit on the head with a baseball bat. Before losing consciousness, he heard "advice" from his attackers not to get involved in politics. Two other UHF activists - Artur Nazarenko and Nikolai Makhalenko - got into a fight with unknown people and received various bodily injuries.