On July 27, 2006, the city court of St. Petersburg sealed the jury's verdict of not guilty against four St. Petersburg residents who were accused by the preliminary investigation of the murder of the Congolese student Roland Franz Epassac. The defendants were acquitted for not being involved in this crime. The criminal case will be returned to the prosecutor's office for a new investigation. The public prosecution intends to seek the annulment of the verdict in cassation.

On July 26, 2006, a number of public and human rights organizations of the Krasnodar Territory applied to the prosecutor's office of the Central District of Krasnodar about the attack on July 4 on Mahdzhub Ali Babikir, a student from Sudan. The statement contains a strong request to consider the aspect of national and racial hatred as one of the possible motives for the crime, to conduct a thorough investigation of the crime.

On July 21, 2006, the Supreme Court upheld the verdict handed down by the court of the Nizhny Novgorod region to 19-year-old resident of the city Alexander Vedeneev, who attacked two citizens of the DPRK. Thus, the court dismissed the appeal. Recall that A. Vedeneev was found guilty under paragraphs. "a", "g", "l" part 2 of Art.

On July 26, 2006, a statement was circulated by the Commission of the Civic Chamber (OP) on Tolerance and Freedom of Conscience (Chairman - Valery Tishkov), in which it is proposed to remove the consideration of cases of serious crimes committed motivated by ethnic hatred from the jurisdiction of the jury. The statement was circulated in connection with the acquittal of the jury in the case of the murder of a Congolese student in St. Petersburg the day before.