On June 16, 2006, Moskovsky Komsomolets v Ryazan announced the material "In the Beams of the Star of David", dedicated to the former mayor of Ryazan, Valery Ryumin, known outside the region for his anti-Semitic views, which were regularly reflected in the newspaper Vechernyaya Ryazan, which he owned . The announcement, signed by the "editor", was in fact a significant (more than half) fragment of Ivan Dobrynin's article "The Fuhrer with sidelocks", published three weeks later, on July 9th.

Prepared by the SOVA Center according to information from the Memorial Human Rights Center and the Civic Assistance Committee . We have already reported that in early July, began the trial of the first group of defendants in the Islamic Jamaat case in Naberezhnye Chelny . There are 23 defendants in total. The case of the "Islamic Jamaat" is rather complex and needs a separate, consistent presentation. In 2004, Khafiz Razzakov was arrested.

On July 31, 2006, the Moscow City Court issued a decision in which it refused to allow the defense of Alexander Koptsev, accused of attacking parishioners of a Moscow synagogue, to consider his case by jury. In making this decision, the court referred to the norms of the Code of Criminal Procedure, according to which the defense should have insisted in its petition on holding preliminary hearings, which it did not do. The court also refused to change the defense measure for A.

Publications are listed in reverse chronological order: A. Verkhovsky. Each missionary - according to the license // Daily magazine. 2006. August 29. Critical remarks on the draft law developed in the Ministry of Justice "On amendments to certain federal laws in order to counteract illegal missionary activity." A. Verkhovsky. Special case // Vedomosti-Friday. 2006. May 19.

July 25, 2006, in St. Petersburg, the jury found four young men not guilty of the September stabbing death of a Congolese student Roland Epassak, 29. After Tuesday's verdict, Prosecutor Dmitry Mazurov called the jurors "simple folk" who were unable to objectively evaluate evidence. "Evidence for them is a bloody knife with fingerprints on it," Mazurov said in comments broadcast on Rossia state television late Tuesday.

On July 25, 2006, Sergei Kaftunov was detained in Novosibirsk in hot pursuit, shooting at the natives of the Caucasus on the streets of the city. A criminal case has been initiated under Art. 91 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation ("on suspicion of committing a crime"). The head of the criminal police of the Leninsky District Department of Internal Affairs, Yevgeny Dikaev, declined to comment until all the circumstances of the case were clarified.

On July 31, 2006, the Soviet Court of Chelyabinsk convicted two members of the NBP without Limonov party (right-wing radical wing) who were accused of inciting ethnic hatred. Alexander Nazarov and Ivan Gerasimov - found guilty under paragraph 2 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code ("incitement of hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity by an organized group"), Art. 212 of the Criminal Code ("riots"), art. 280 of the Criminal Code ("public calls for extremist activity").

On July 25, 2006, in Novosibirsk, 25-year-old Sergey Kaftunov shot at natives of the Caucasus for an hour. The first attack was committed at seven o'clock in the evening, on Zabaluev Street. Then O. Kaftunov drove by car to the street. Parkhomenko, where he fired two more shots at different ends of the street. Then he drove to St. Nevelskoy, where he also shot at a Caucasian man, but at the same time wounded his companion.

July 24, 2006, in Moscow, Dmitry Demushkin, the leader of an extreme rightwing neonazi group called "Slavyansky Sojuz" (or SS) was detained for several hours. His apartment was searched and his notebook and some other materials were withdrawn by the police. According to the information on the rightwing internet resources, his detention is related to a mosque explosion in a Moscow region town Yahroma in the early of July.

On July 30, 2006, three young men attacked two Iranian citizens at the Frunzenskaya metro station in Moscow. This was reported in the Iranian embassy in Moscow. Earlier it was reported that a 20-year-old British citizen of Iranian origin was beaten in the Moscow metro at the Frunzenskaya station. (According to other sources, a citizen of Iran, a resident of Tehran). A foreigner with a hematoma of the temporal region was hospitalized.