In August 2006, the thematic bulletin "Roma Rights: Hate Speech" was published, prepared and published by the European Roma Rights Center (ERRC). The main block of publications in it is devoted to Russia. In particular, they published article by Stefania Kulaeva "Modern journalists about gypsies - unconscious racism?"; article by Leonid Raikhman "Seminars as a means to break prejudices"; Recommendations of the Regional Press Institute: A.A.

On August 17, 2006, it became known that the prosecutor's office of Ostrogozhsk, Voronezh region, had completed the investigation into the murder of a native of Vietnam, Tran Ngoc Binh . The case was transferred to the district court. Four juvenile defendants were charged under Art.

On August 17, 2006, Novaya Gazeta published an article by Alexander Garros, “The Shadow of Sideburns,” in which the author presents to the reader his vision of the fascisation of Russia. In his opinion, the “anti-fascist” discussion that has recently unfolded in society is unproductive due to the amorphous ideas of those discussing the very subject of discussion (compare with the opinion of B. Dubin).

On August 17, 2006, the Sakhalin Regional Court upheld the sentence of Uzbek citizen Iskander Tagmatov, charged under Art. 105, part 1, paragraph "l" of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("murder motivated by national, racial, religious hatred or enmity or blood feud"). I. Tagmatov was sentenced to 11 years and 1 month in prison to be served in a strict regime correctional colony. On September 28, 2004, in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Tagmatov quarreled with a citizen T. T.

In July 2006, the prosecutor's office of the Sovetsky district of Orel sent a letter to the mayor of Orel entitled "Information on violations of the law on combating extremist activities among young people." In this document, the prosecutor's office, in particular, says that in one of the sports institutions of the city " a group of football fans systematically conducts training in mastering the techniques of hand-to-hand combat, " which pursues as its goal the organization of mass riots .

On August 18, 2006, the Basmanny Court of Moscow again dismissed the claim of the movement "For Human Rights" on the illegality of the actions of the Basmanny Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office of the capital, which repeatedly refused to initiate a criminal case on the fact of conducting two anti-Semitic campaigns (" Letter 500" and "Letter 5000" ). A new consideration of the claim was initiated by the Moscow City Court, which canceled the decision of the Deputy Basmanny District Court A.

On August 15, 2006, in Voronezh, at the trial of assaulting foreign students, the defendants stated that they attacked foreigners because they mistook them for rappers. Shortly before committing the crime, the defendants' friends were beaten by rappers , they said, and, armed with brass knuckles, they set off to avenge their friends. According to the defendants, they mistook foreigners for rappers and therefore beat them.

On August 7, 2006, it was reported that the head of the local branch of the Russian National Unity (RNU), Ekaterina Melnikova, and "RNE ally" Anton Dukhovich, were arrested in Kazan. A criminal case was initiated against them under Art. 162, part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("robbery committed by a group of persons by prior agreement").

On August 17, 2006, a janitor, a citizen of Uzbekistan, was killed in St. Petersburg, and a citizen of Tajikistan, also working as a janitor, received numerous stab wounds. According to the testimony of the wounded man, three unidentified men armed with knives broke into the janitor's house at 62/1 on Lunacharsky Avenue and attacked the migrant workers. A criminal case has been initiated under Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("murder").