On the eve of the anniversary of the terrorist attack in Beslan, Murat Tavkazakhov, head of the Spiritual Board of Muslims of North Ossetia, spoke out against the participation in the mourning events of Bishop Feofan (Ashurkov) of Stavropol and Vladikavkaz. "Half of those killed in the attack are Muslims, and they are buried according to our customs. This fact must be taken into account," the mufti said. M. Tavkazakhov himself, for some unknown reason, was not invited to the ceremony.

The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) and the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG) condemn the ethnically motivated riots that occurred in the city of Kondopoga in the Russian Republic of Karelia during the weekend and call for prompt and effective measures to bring to justice those who incited and participated in the violence.

On August 30, 2006, the prosecutor's office of the Kondopozhsky district of the Republic of Karelia initiated a criminal case under item "a" part 2 of Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder of two or more persons) and Part 2 of Art.

According to the rector of the Trinity Cathedral in St. Petersburg, father Konstantin, which disagrees with the official version of the investigation, the temple, which was damaged by fire on August 25, could have been set on fire by extremist anti-Semites who "did not like" the six-pointed stars with which the dome was decorated. With reference to Metropolitan Vladimir of St.

On the evening of September 2, 2006 in St. Petersburg, a group of punks, who were waiting for the start of the concert of the "Purgen" group near the "Legend" club on Industrial Avenue, were attacked by several dozen skinheads. One of the Nazi websites reports about 30-40 skinheads participating in the "raid". Part of the punks managed to hide in the club. Several people were beaten. on an Internet blog One of the victims describes the attackers as "evil, shaved people in gauze respirators" .

On September 1, 2006, in Ryazan, within the framework of the project "Counteracting Hate Speech: Monitoring and Public Actions. A New Stage (2005-2007)", the regional campaign "Ryazan - a City Without Hate" was launched. The campaign is carried out by the Ryazan School of Human Rights.

Mass riots took place this weekend in a small - less then 40 thousand inhabitants - town of Kondopoga in the republic of Karelia (which is situated to the North of St. Petersburg). It began on the night of August 30 with an ordinary fight of drunken people in a restaurant :Chaika;, which belongs to a businessman from Chechnya. The fighters from the both sides of the conflict were very likely to be criminals.

Despite statements by representatives of the city administration and law enforcement agencies that mass anti-Caucasian riots in Kondopoga were suppressed, on the night of September 3-4, arson attempts were again made in the city. Already on Sunday afternoon, rumors began to circulate in the city that at 17:00 people were being called to the burnt cafe "Chaika" to continue the pogroms in the area of ​​Yunosti Boulevard.

The Heraldic Commission of the Penza Region proposed to bring the flag of the region into compliance with the norms of heraldry, which would require removing the face of the Savior from the flag. The regional government approved the design of a new flag depicting three sheaves. The initiative group began collecting signatures in defense of the old flag. In his support, with the blessing of Archbishop Filaret of Penza and Kuznetsk, a car rally took place on August 30.

The tragic events in a small Karelian town require a serious investigation, not only because of the media resonance they caused, but also because similar events could be repeated in many more places in Russia, just as the current events have obvious antecedents. - in Yandyki, Salsk, Kharagun, etc. We are convinced that such phenomena should be seen primarily as a series of crimes, and not as a political problem, much less as an "ethnic conflict".

A rally against Madonna's upcoming concert in Moscow on September 12 was held on Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow. Participants - about 200 people - members of Orthodox-patriotic organizations with banners and monarchist banners.

On the night of August 30, several graves at the Novodevichy cemetery in St. Petersburg were damaged. Unknown people destroyed 14 graves and overturned 11 crosses. The Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Leningrad Region reported that it was "an ordinary hooliganism committed on the basis of alcohol intoxication": "A lot of bottles of alcohol were found on the spot, grass was crushed around, on which, apparently, these people were lying.

On September 1, 2006, the anti-fascist action "Stop Nazism!" was launched, which is held annually on the initiative of a number of youth anti-fascist organizations. The action will last until November 9 - the anniversary of "Kristallnacht" (Jewish pogrom in 1939), which became the beginning of the Holocaust.