On September 18, 2006, the federal court of the Central District of Tolyatti sentenced three skinheads for the murder of Artashes Milkonyan. In mid-October 2006, the verdict entered into force. Teenagers received from 2.5 to 4 years in prison in a juvenile correctional facility. One minor was released from criminal liability as a result of an amnesty act.

On October 13, 2006, a Jewish cemetery was desecrated in Kaluga. Unknown vandals knocked over 10 tombstones, broke the fences of graves, trampled funeral wreaths into the ground. Both old and new graves were damaged. "This is nationalism, fascism, Nazism - whatever you want to call it, but it's wrong ," said Sergei Gorbunov, the cemetery watchman, who discovered the pogrom. The criminal case was initiated under Art. 244 ("desecration of the monuments of the dead").

On October 17, 2006, the jury returned a not guilty verdict to the defendants in the case of the murder of Vietnamese student Vu Anh Tuan in St. Petersburg. The jury found that the defendants' guilt in this murder had not been proven during the trial. Let us recall that in total there were 17 defendants in this case (including 14 for involvement in the murder of a Vietnamese student, including five for the murder itself). Some of the defendants were accused of involvement in several crimes.

On October 13, vandals again attacked the Jewish cemetery in Kaluga. According to the local television and radio company "Nika" , "wreaths from fresh graves were trampled into the ground. Heavy tombstones were knocked down, 10 tombstones were turned over." On the fact of the incident, a criminal case was initiated under Art. 244 ("Desecration of the bodies of the dead and places of their burial") of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

columnist Portal-Credo.ru Roman Lunkin analyzes the deep meaning of the public controversy surrounding the introduction of a course on the basics of Orthodox culture in Russian schools. He believes that this struggle, in fact, is a clash between "old" and "new" Russia - Orthodox supporters of the OPK, or "imperialists", with "anti-Soviet".

In the autumn of 2006, in Sergiev Posad, the editor-in-chief of the Zerkalo newspaper filed a civil lawsuit against a journalist from the Vperyod newspaper, accusing his publication of " inciting ethnic hatred . " On May 24 and 31, 2006, the Zerkalo newspaper published Vladimir Putnik's article "A Tale of a Scoop".

Doctor of History, professor, member of the scientific council of the Carnegie Moscow Center Alexey Malashenko, on the pages of the newspaper Vremya Novostey, analyzes the peculiarities of Russians’ attitude towards Islam and Muslims and points out the main factors contributing to the growth of Islamophobia in Russian society. A.

On October 17, an agreement on cooperation was signed between the Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University. Victor Astafiev and the local diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, Pravoslavie.ru reports with reference to ITAR-TASS. According to the rector of the university, Nikolai Drozdov, now religious studies students "will be able to work more closely with the church in order to work in civil society." "We are ready to cooperate with Catholics, and with Jews, and with Muslims.

On October 11, in an interview with IA REGNUM, Damir-khazrat Mukhetdinov, head of the administration of the Spiritual Muslim Board of the Nizhny Novgorod region, said that cases of discrimination against Muslims have become more frequent in the region. "In the markets, either representatives of law enforcement agencies or market employees who collect rent come up to the merchants of Azerbaijani nationality and say: soon we will drive all of you, Muslims, out of here," he said.

On October 16, 2006, in Yekaterinburg, members of the Organized Crime Control Department detained and placed in a temporary detention facility an activist of the People's National Party (PNP), lawyer Sergei Kotov. The Leninsky District Court of Yekaterinburg is going to choose a measure of restraint for him at a court session on October 18, 2006.

reports On the night of October 13, unknown vandals cut down an Orthodox cross installed on the outskirts of the city of Novozybkov (Bryansk region), the official website of the ROC MP with reference to the Gorod_24 news agency. Next to the sawn down cross, the criminals left a note saying that "there is no place for this structure." On the fact of the incident, a criminal case was initiated under Art. 214 ("Vandalism") of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

On October 15, 2006, in Murmansk, about ten underage shaven-headed young people attacked a resident of the city and hit him in the chest with a screwdriver. The attackers fled the scene. “Most likely, the guys wanted to stand out in front of each other, since they didn’t have a special reason to attack the man, he didn’t pester them, didn’t extort anything from them,” said Alexander Charygin, inspector of the Department of Private Security of the Regional Internal Affairs Directorate.

On September 22, 2006, the Vechernyaya Kazan newspaper, in a publication about an investigation into the attack by RNU members on Goths at the Arsk cemetery, cited the words of the victim's father, who told the newspaper that "RNU comrades-in-arms" were threatening the families of the victims by telephone.

Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tatarstan began to read a special course "Fundamentals of Religious Studies and the Formation of Tolerant Consciousness." According to the Trud newspaper, "siloviki intervene on duty in the sphere of interethnic and religious conflicts. To prevent them, you need to know the legal foundations of religious activity in Russia, the canons of world religions. Religious and legal educational program is designed for seven months.

On September 27, 2006, the Congress of Religious Associations of the Tyumen Region adopted a statement "On the attitude towards the introduction of new compulsory school subjects "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture" and "Fundamentals of Traditional Religions" in schools as a regional component." We publish the full text of the document: "The Congress of Religious Associations of the Tyumen Region expresses serious concern in connection with the introduction in a number of regions of Russia of