Andrey Seltsovsky, head of the Moscow Health Department, and Arseniy (Epifanov), Archbishop of Istra, signed a cooperation agreement. The document formalizes the presence of the church in medical institutions in Moscow. Now the organization of the activities of Orthodox patronage services, charity groups and sisterhoods will be simplified.

Twice a week training sessions for staff of correctional facilities in the Voronezh region will be held with the participation of Orthodox priests. The topics of the classes will be determined by the leadership of the penitentiary institutions and the clergy. The decision on the participation of priests in classes with prison officers was made within the framework of an agreement between the Federal Penitentiary Service and the Russian Orthodox Church, signed 7 years ago.

The statement of the Action Committee of the All-Russian Civil Congress “On religious education in public schools” has been published. The reason for the statement was the inclusion of “Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture” in the compulsory curriculum in the Belgorod and Bryansk regions, as well as the teaching of this subject as an elective in several other regions.

On September 29, 2006, the Youth Network Against Racism and Intolerance, together with the Holocaust Scientific and Educational Center (NPC Holocaust), launched the International Action "Babi Yar - Nobody is Forgotten!" Dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the tragedy near Kiev. The action takes place within the framework of the information and educational European campaign "Everyone is different - everyone is equal".

In October 2006, ethnic Georgian Giorgi Kvitsiani was killed in Moscow. Man was an athlete, winner of international armwrestling competitions. Family of the deceased claims that the crimes were committed motivated by national hate. Sources A Georgian athlete was killed in Moscow. Maybe skinheads. // Labor. 2006. October 4th.

The Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Tatarstan placed in the electronic library of its educational portal a number of neo-Nazi and anti-Semitic works, including: Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, Andrey Diky's "Jews in Russia and the USSR" and Grigory Klimov's "God's People" and others. This became known from a message from a researcher at the St.

In the Sretensky Church of Petrozavodsk, which was closed for 60 days due to non-compliance with fire safety rules, services resumed. Priest Pavel Lekhmus, rector of the temple, said that on October 2, the parish filed a petition with the court regarding the consideration of the circumstances of the fulfillment of fire safety requirements. The petition notes that part of the requirements, except for those that affect the status of the church as an architectural monument, has been fulfilled.

On October 4, 2006, at a press conference in the House of the Russian Press, representatives of the Movement Against Illegal Immigration (DPNI), the National Power Party of Russia (NDPR), the Union of Orthodox Citizens, the Georgievtsy youth movement, Russian Order and other national -patriotic organizations announced their intention to hold another Russian March in Moscow on November 4, similar to the one that took place in November 2005.

In the summer of 2006, a campaign to discredit the Pentecostal religious organization “Word of Life” began in Novosibirsk. At the same time, the campaign is developing progressively - from a regional newspaper to an all-Russian television channel. On July 5, 2006, the newspaper "Evening Novosibirsk" published an article by Valery Melnikov "Yellow T-shirts with an orange tint", in which members of the organization are not called anything other than "sectarians".

In mid-August 2006, the head of the department for information policy and public relations of the Pskov region, Maxim Kostikov, sent a letter to the Pskov Administration, in which he ordered the administration staff to take control of the holding of rallies and actions of "banned or unregistered political and public organizations of a destructive and extremist orientation " .

On October 3, 2006, the portal "Globalrus.ru" published an article by Alexander Chernykh "Wolves that shout "Wolves!": DPNI lies, the public believes", dedicated to the analysis of information posted on the website of the Movement Against Illegal Immigration (DPNI). The author easily manages to show the reader the unreliability and / or bias of the information posted there.

On September 26, 2006, an article by Candidate of Historical Sciences Andreas Umland, who specializes in studying right-wing radical movements in Russia, "Vitrenko's Fascist Friend" was published on the Ukrainska Pravda portal.