The Kostroma diocese appealed to the arbitration court, demanding the transfer of the building of the Annunciation Church of the XVIII century. In Soviet times, this building housed a bakery, but now bread production has been discontinued. The church was privatized in accordance with all the rules, and its current owner does not want to give up the property. The law prohibiting the privatization of religious buildings came into force in 1990, but the Annunciation Church was acquired earlier.

On October 12, 2006, in Moscow on Yunykh Lenintsev Street, a 28-year-old Chinese citizen was found with multiple stab wounds. The foreigner was hospitalized in one of the Moscow hospitals. The circumstances of the incident are being established. There is no reported robbery. Sources In Moscow, unknown assailants stabbed a Chinese citizen // NEWSru.com. 2006. October 13.

On October 13, 2006, the court of the Nizhny Novgorod region satisfied the claim of the regional prosecutor's office and issued a decision to liquidate the public organization Russian-Chechen Friendship Society (RCFS). The RCFS is going to appeal the court's decision to the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation within 10 days. Society members noted that the judge's decision was illegal.

On October 12, 2006 in the city of Ivanovo, the TV and radio company "Bars" addressed a letter to the prosecutor's office of the Ivanovo region. Employees of the Bars TV and radio company are asking for a legal assessment of the statements of the head of the Ivanovo Jewish community, Ervin Kirshtein, that the media belonging to the Bars media holding allow anti-Semitic statements and incite pogroms. According to the authors of the letter, E.

*In October 9-12, 2005 SOVA Center took part in OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw. On October, 11th at the working session "Tolerance and non-discrimination" ("Prevention of aggressive nationalism, chauvinism, and ethnic cleansing") Galina Kozhevnikova made the intervention on the racist violence in Russia. We publish the full text of the intervention prepared for this session by International Helsinki Federation and SOVA Center.

Saratov Catholic Bishop Clemens Pickel does not approve of the idea of ​​building an Orthodox church in Beslan. According to the bishop, most of the parents of the victims are not Christians. K. Pikkel witnessed how some of them brought various pagan symbols to the graves. "It's important to consider what the parents want - it's up to them, not the churches, to have the final say. And obviously they don't want to establish anything else here," the bishop said.

On October 12, 2006, the Judicial Collegium of the Chelyabinsk Regional Court overturned the verdict in the case of Alexander Nazarov and Ivan Gerasimov, members of the NBP without Limonov (right-wing radical wing), who were found guilty of inciting ethnic hatred. The case has been sent for a new trial to the same court and will be reviewed by a new panel of judges.

On July 13, 2006, in Yekaterinburg, on Vainer Street, two skinheads beat up a man who seemed to them to be " "a person of non-Russian nationality . When hitting Ivan, the attackers shouted "nationalist slogans" ("Get out to your village") . One of the attackers, 26-year-old Vladimir R., was detained . He was charged under Part 2 of Art.

On September 20-24, the Voronezh Institute of Public Opinion "Qualitas" conducted a survey of citizens, ascertaining their attitude to the possibility of introducing the institute of regimental clergy. To the question: "Do you think the modern Russian army needs military priests (chaplains)?" more than half of the respondents answered in the affirmative.

On October 13, 2006, news agencies disseminated information about a raid by the Irkutsk police to identify illegal migrants. Journalists associate this operation with the anti-Georgian hysteria that has unfolded in Moscow over the past week and a half.

Tyumen authorities demolished the building on the street. Lenin, 13, where the mosque was supposed to be located. The demolition came as a complete surprise to the Muslims, who had been seeking the placement of a mosque here for several years. The transfer of the building to the community was scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2006. Sources Tyumen authorities demolished another building promised to be a mosque // Islam.ru. 2006. October 12.

be recognized as untrue. On October 12, 2006, the Presnensky Court held preliminary hearings on the suit of Eduard Limonov against the FEOR, in which he demands that the wording used by the federation in a letter to the European Court of Human Rights On August 8, 2006, FEOR sent a letter to Strasbourg in which it asked the European Court of Human Rights not to accept the complaint of the "Limonovites" for consideration.

On October 13, 2006, a trial began in Bryansk against members of the Bryansk regional branch of the movement against illegal immigration (DPNI), accused under Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Among the defendants - the head of the national-patriotic movement "SPAS" Sergei Altunin, as well as the head of the regional branch of the DPNI Dmitry Zubov.

Minister of Education Andrey Fursenko again spoke about the "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture". In an interview with Nezavisimaya Gazeta, the newspaper's interlocutor lamented that "now the essence of the subject (it is culturological) is not even discussed, but attention is focused on its name." “Where the history of Orthodoxy and the origins of Orthodox culture are normally taught and there are good textbooks, there are no problems,” the minister said. ", the whole point is in the title.