The Plenipotentiary Representative of the Volga District advocates the creation of a data bank of crimes committed on national and religious grounds
On August 2, 2006, during a meeting of the Security Collegium, Alexander Konovalov, representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Volga Federal District, announced the need to create a database of crimes committed on ethnic and religious grounds. According to the plenipotentiary, a huge number of such crimes are latent in nature: very often inter-religious and racial intolerance is presented as ordinary hooliganism, robbery or bodily harm.