On August 2, 2006, in Moscow, on Sheremetyevskaya Street, the corpse of an Afghan citizen was discovered with stab wounds to the neck and stomach. According to the Chargé d'Affaires of Afghanistan in Russia, Ghulam Sakhi Ghairat, who visited the crime scene, there were 17 stab wounds on the body of the murdered man. The dead man was a car service mechanic who temporarily lived in Moscow. The Ostankino interdistrict prosecutor's office opened a criminal case into the murder.

On August 4, 2006, "Moskovskiye Novosti" published an interview with the well-known sociologist Boris Dubin "Our society is not able to keep itself," in which considerable attention was paid to the problem of xenophobia in modern Russian society. According to B. Dubin, there is a huge terminological, conceptual confusion in the public mind, which makes it extremely difficult to comprehend real problems. First, people practically do not share doctrinal and everyday xenophobia.

Passed on August 2, 2006, the Day of the Airborne Forces throughout the country was marked by traditional fights and pogroms, in particular, of a nationalist nature. So, at least two incidents are known in Moscow : paratroopers, who were organizedly delivered to the scene in the Ural, smashed tents at the Dorogomilovsky market and beat up sellers, mostly people from the Caucasus, and a group of paratroopers who tried to steal watermelons in an open tent tied up fight with the seller.

On the night of August 3, 2006, a Turkish citizen was stabbed in the stomach in Moscow. According to the victim, a 35-year-old businessman, on Volgogradsky Prospekt, three unknown persons stabbed him in the stomach and disappeared. Later, it was reported that the attack, without any apparent reason, was committed by shaven-headed teenagers in front of passers-by, who called an ambulance and the police. A criminal case has been initiated at the Pechatniki police department in Moscow.

The Kirov regional prosecutor's office said it had solved the brutal murder of a married couple in 2000. One of the two suspects (they were 16 and 18 at the time) admitted that the murder was committed as a ritual under the influence of "satanic literature." Both suspects have been arrested. Sources Ritual murder uncovered in Kirov //Regnum. 2006. August 4

On August 3, 2006, there was a pogrom at a closed Muslim cemetery in Yekaterinburg. The attackers broke about 10 monuments and smashed the windows in the watchman's booth. According to the Mufti of the Yekaterinburg Cathedral Mosque Sibgatulla Hadji, the incident is an ordinary hooliganism that does not have a nationalist connotation.

On the evening of August 2, 2006, in Moscow on Sheremetyevskaya Street, two unknown persons stabbed a young man, a native of Uzbekistan. He died on the spot from his wounds. Additional details are unknown. Sources Native of Uzbekistan killed in Moscow // Interfax. 2006. August 3.

Recommendations on the development of tolerance and countering extremism, adopted at the meeting of the Civic Chamber on April 14, 2006, have been published on the website of the Civic Chamber (PC). At the meeting itself, the final text of the proposals was not put to a vote. The proposals developed by Valery Tishkov were approved in general, and their revision was entrusted to the editorial group, which included those who made significant claims to the distributed text.

city court began a trial on charges of On August 3, 2006, the Pyatigorsk incitement of religious hatred, kidnapping and extortion (Art. 282, part 1, art. 127, part 2, paragraphs "a", "g", article 163, part 2, paragraphs "a", "c" of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). During the court session, the defense filed a motion to hold the trial without the participation of media representatives, motivating its request by the biased approach of the press.

On August 2, 2006, searches were conducted in the editorial office of the Rus Pravoslavnaya newspaper, the publishing house Tsarskoye Delo, the apartments of the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Konstantin Dushenov, the director Sergei Astakhov, and the apartment of the director of the Russkaya Mysl club Tatyana Andreeva. The searches were carried out as part of a criminal case initiated on June 15 under Art. 282 h. 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

On August 3, 2006, the SITI.FM radio station reported that two natives of Tajikistan were detained in Moscow with leaflets of "extremist content, the text of which called for racial, national and religious hatred" . According to the detainees, the radio station said, the leaflets were handed over to them by an unknown man who met them at the mosque on Poklonnaya Gora and advised them to distribute them among fellow countrymen. Sources Tajiks with extremist leaflets detained in Moscow // CITY.FM.

On August 2, 2006, the prosecutor's office of the Chita region sent to court the first case related to the interethnic conflict in the village of Kharagun. Andrey Mondokhonov, the prosecutor of the Khiloksky district, approved the indictment against Sergei Makov.

In August 2006, it became known that on March 17, 2006, by a decision of the FSB in the Udmurt Republic, the criminal case against three RNU activists was terminated for distributing a leaflet "The course of the Russian government is integration into the world community and our payment for it" in October 2005 ( one of the main appeals of the leaflet is the illegal acquisition of military weapons).