Mufti of Dagestan Akhmad-hadji Abdullaev suggested "reducing the number of muftiats in Russia to a minimum." The existing division of Muslims, according to the mufti, is beneficial to "some forces that prevent their unity." "There is a feeling that someone artificially divides and secretly rules," A. Abdullayev noted. For this reason, the mufti believes, it is difficult for Muslims to find a compromise even in simple situations.

This report continues a series of analytical reviews by the SOVA Center dedicated to manifestations of radical nationalism in Russia and countering these manifestations.

At a press conference in Yerevan after the meeting of the Joint Board of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and the Police of Armenia, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia Rashid Nurgaliyev, among other things, touched upon the problem of crimes committed motivated by ethnic hatred.

On June 28, 2006, the Novye Izvestiya newspaper published an article by the Director General of the Center for Political Technologies, Igor Bunin, entitled "Count "against everyone" - a sign of political infantilism." The canceled graph, which I. Bunin considers "an archaic part of the Russian electoral legislation" , "preserves mainly in countries that are undergoing a democratic transition, are experiencing a transitional period , - explains the author.

State Duma deputy Aleksei Mitrofanov proposed creating in Russia a territorially separate Orthodox state headed by a Patriarch, modeled on the Vatican. "The Orthodox state could be located in the Moscow aisles with the residence of the patriarch in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior or in Sergiev Posad," said A. Mitrofanov.

Svetlana Kovaleva , Center "Demos" This review is dedicated to various types of protest actions that took place in May. The review was prepared by the Demos Center with the support of the OSI - Assistance Foundation. Failed gay pride parade An attempt to organize a gay pride parade in Moscow in May resulted in a series of incidents. A group of gay movement activists has been seeking to hold a gay pride parade in Moscow since 2005.

On June 26, 2006, in St. Petersburg, an armed OMON detachment of more than 10 people came to the apartment of a member of the executive committee of the city branch of the National Bolshevik Party, Oleg Yushkov. O. Yushkov and his family were not at home. In a message on the NBP-Info website, this event was regarded as an intimidation of an activist before the G8 summit. Sources Pressure on the National Bolshevik Oleg Yushkov // NBP-Info. 2006. June 27.

members of the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society On June 28, 2006, it became known that Amnesty International awarded the "Special Prize for Courage in Human Rights Journalism" to Stanislav Dmitrievsky and Oksana Chelysheva, . They were awarded for publishing materials about Chechnya. Sources The West noted the courage of Russian journalists // Polit.Ru. 2006. June 28.

On June 28, 2006, RIA Novosti published Andrey Kolesnikov's article "The struggle of Nanai boys against 'fascism'", dedicated to the intensification of the official "fight against fascism". He once again draws attention to the fact that political PR carried out under the slogans of this very struggle has nothing to do with countering fascism.

On June 28, 2006, the editor-in-chief of the Parliamentary Newspaper, Pyotr Kotov, submitted his resignation. Boris Gryzlov stated this at a meeting of the lower house of parliament. In response to deputy Viktor Alksnis’ statement that the editor must be immediately removed, B. Gryzlov said: “I talked with Kotov last Monday. He assesses the situation adequately and submitted his resignation.” Only deputy from the LDPR faction Alexey Mitrofanov spoke out against Kotov’s dismissal.

On June 26, 2006, the American human rights organization Human Rights First distributed two reports on manifestations of nationalism and racism in the Russian Federation. The report "Minorities under siege: hate crimes and manifestations of intolerance in the Russian Federation" is devoted to the problem of the growth of crimes motivated by ethnic and racial hatred and the reaction of the authorities to this problem.

In the first half of July, near the village of Petrovo-Dalnee near Moscow, a temple built by the "Circle of Pagan Traditions" was destroyed. Chura were cut down and burned, a six-meter wooden pole, installed for last year's Kupala, was torn out of the ground. Co-Chairman of the KYAT Veledor, commenting on what happened, suggested that the act of vandalism was committed by "fanatics from Christianity", because. crosses were depicted on the ground.

On June 28, 2006, the State Duma adopted in the first reading an amendment to the law "On counteracting extremist activity", expanding the definition of the concept of "extremism" and, accordingly, the range of actions that fall under the very harsh sanctions of this law.

On June 26, 2006, Ezhednevny Zhurnal published Dmitry Oreshkin's article "Memory and Sorrow as an Anecdote", the reason for writing which was the appeal of the leaders of several constituent entities of the Russian Federation to the leaders of parliamentary parties, demanding "active measures to overcome extremism", timed to coincide with June 22. A brief description of this appeal, given by D.

The prosecutor's office of the Central Administrative District of the city of Krasnodar issued a warning to Albert Gayamyan, the head of the human rights (protecting the rights of "patriots") committee "Presumption", the editor of the ultranationalist newspaper "Police of Morals", the owner of a Nazi literature store, known for its collaboration with the right-wing radical organizations "Derzhava Rus" and the NDPR . The warning is related to A.