Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad Kirill (Gundyaev) again called for a legal distinction between pilgrimage and tourism. Speaking at a conference dedicated to modern pilgrimage, the head of the DECR stated that it is impossible to legally equate pilgrimage services with tourism organizations.

In the second half of November, near the Schelkovskaya metro station, a native of Azerbaijan stabbed a group of hooligans who threatened to kill him. A group of drunk fans returning from a mini-football match near the metro lobby began to molest an 18-year-old Azerbaijani youth. was uttered to the young man When, after various insults, the phrase "Come here, now we will kill you" , the young man took out a knife and wounded three pursuers. The seven others fled.

On November 22, 2006, the Public Collegium for Press Complaints accepted for consideration a complaint against the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper, which called Roma and Tajiks "animals". Recall that we are talking about the article by Natalia Panasenko and Yulia Kalinina "I do not want to study, I want to be fruitful", published by the newspaper on August 1, 2005. The complaint was filed on behalf of Antonina Sukhovskaya, a resident of St.

On November 27, a joint meeting of three commissions of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation was held: the commission on issues of tolerance and freedom of conscience, the commission on the intellectual potential of the nation and the commission on cultural and spiritual heritage. The meeting participants discussed the possibility of teaching the fundamentals of world religions in schools.

On November 28, 2006, the Regional Court of the Jewish Autonomous Region sentenced two teenagers in the case of the murder of three homeless residents of Birobidzhan on the basis of social hatred. Adolescents convicted under three articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - paragraphs. "a", "g", "l" part 2 of article 105 (murder of two or more persons committed by a group by prior conspiracy motivated by national, racial hatred), part 1.

The prosecutor's office of the Arkhangelsk region conducted an inspection of the activities of the Ashtar Center religious organization, which does not have legal registration in the region. One of the members of the organization conducted a reception of patients in a private apartment, determining the presence of "damage" and "evil eye" in them. During the audit, it turned out that this "doctor" does not have a medical education or a healer's diploma.

The prosecutor's office of Syktyvkar (Komi Republic) opened a criminal case under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred) on the fact of distribution of nationalist leaflets in the city. We are talking about leaflets with the text of the so-called "Letters of the women of Kondopoga" (pronounced anti-Caucasian content), the authorship of which has not been established.

On November 29, 2006, in the federal court of the Pushkinsky district, a debate was held between the parties in the case of the leader of the extremist group "Mad Crowd" Ruslan Melnik. The state prosecutor asked to be found guilty of all charges, with the exception of calls to incite national hatred through the media (Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).