On August 14, 2006, the city court of St. Petersburg again began to consider the criminal case on the murder of Vu Anh Tuan, a student from Vietnam. The process was suspended earlier, this is the first meeting after the break. On the same day, one of the defendants in the case retracted his confession, on which the arguments of the prosecution were based, stating that he was under pressure.

During the summer months, the Mari El capital Yoshkar-Ola saw a series of attacks on merchants native to the Caucasus who work in the city's mini-markets. According to official information, two people were injured, according to unofficial information, the number of victims, including women and children, is approaching four dozen.

On August 10, 2006, the European Roma Rights Center (ERRC) officially wrote to the editor-in-chief of the Vecherniy Novosibirsk newspaper expressing concern about the manifestations of anti-Roma hate speech in the newspaper, which boils down to the constant identification of Roma with drug trafficking and crime. The letter noted a whole series of publications, including: "Of course, let the prosecutor figure it out, but for now, let the people's avengers turn Iskitim into a drug-free zone" I.

On the night of August 13, 2006, unidentified persons threw a bottle, presumably containing petrol, on the territory of a synagogue in the center of Khabarovsk. The bottle hit the porch of the synagogue and flared up, but immediately went out because it fell into a puddle. See "Nationalism and xenophobia" for more details . At the end of May, unknown people painted anti-Jewish inscriptions on the concrete wall opposite her. There was no criminal case at that time.

We are publishing the text of the conclusion of the Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Tyva dated July 14, 2006 on the fact of the attack on a group of graduates of the Toora-Khem secondary school that occurred on June 13, 2006. The text is reproduced according to the publication of the site "Taiga.Info" . Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Tuva No.

In August 2006, it became known that on July 6, 2006, the prosecutor's office of the Republic of Tuva initiated a criminal case under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of hatred or enmity) against employees of the editorial offices of the newspapers "Risk" and "Eyewitness. Komok". The reason for initiating a criminal case was publications that incorrectly described the incident.

*We publish excerpts from Lev Levinson's extensive commentary on the law signed by the President "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation in Connection with the Adoption of the Federal Law "On Ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism" and the Federal Law "On Combating Terrorism"".