On December 1, 2006, in Yaroslavl, in the station building, Celesten Zutung, a citizen of the Central African Republic, a graduate of the Yaroslavl Medical Academy, was approached by a 19-year-old resident of the Moscow region, who called himself a skinhead. and "in an insulting manner, on the basis of racial hostility, expressed a demand to leave the borders of Russia." "Otherwise, he threatened to kill him.

In Moscow, a criminal case has been opened on the fact of the distribution of literature of a nationalist nature. This was reported in the press service of the Metropolitan Prosecutor's Office on December 5, 2006. The case was initiated by the Timiryazev inter-district prosecutor's office under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation based on the results of an inspection conducted in the Northern Administrative District of the city.

Speaking on December 5 at the annual diocesan meeting in Moscow, Patriarch Alexy II, as usual, cited statistical data concerning the Russian Orthodox Church in general and the Moscow diocese in particular. We quote the message of the Patriarchy.ru website : “According to the data given in the speech of His Holiness the Patriarch, there are currently 131 eparchies in the Russian Orthodox Church. Today there are 169 bishops, of which 131 are diocesan, 38 vicarious and 13 are retired.

December 5 Rector of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov Viktor Sadovnichy and Archbishop Evgeny of Vereya signed a declaration on cooperation between the largest Russian university and the Moscow Theological Academy.

In the Moscow City Court, the defense and the prosecution appealed against the verdict in the case of Boris Stomakhin, editor-in-chief of the publication Radical Politics. This was stated by lawyer Karen Nersesyan on December 4, 2006. The defense demands the full acquittal of the journalist. The prosecutor's office, on the contrary, considers the sentence too lenient - at the trial, it demanded seven years in prison for B. Stomakhin. According to K.

On December 5, 2006, the Pushkin Federal Court of St. Petersburg handed down a guilty verdict in the case of Ruslan Melnik, whom the preliminary investigation authorities consider one of the leaders of the skinhead group "Mad Crowd" ("Mad Crowd"). He was accused of creating an extremist community and publicly committing violent acts aimed at inciting racial hatred. The court sentenced Ruslan Melnik to 3.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.

On December 5, 2006, law enforcement agencies reported that unknown assailants had wounded two Vietnamese citizens in Moscow. The day before, Vietnamese citizens who were found near house 47 on Shchelkovskoye Highway were taken to one of the city hospitals with penetrating stab wounds. The victims arrived in Moscow on June 24, 2006 and lived in the Russian capital legally. Currently, police officers are determining under what circumstances the injuries were received.

On December 3, 2006, at about 17:00 in St. Petersburg, near the intersection of Rubinshteina Street and Grafsky Lane, about 25-30 neo-Nazis, shouting "Russians, go ahead," attacked anti-fascists (about 12 people) who were returning from the picket of Anti-War committee. The collision lasted several minutes, during which the window of a nearby store was broken. During the fight, several people were injured on both sides.

On December 5, 2006, in St. Petersburg, volunteers began to wash off and paint over inscriptions of a nationalist nature. Previously, the association "League of Nations" collected information about problematic addresses. Citizens told about inscriptions and images inciting ethnic or religious hatred, thanks to whose calls a list of places (about 70 addresses) where volunteers would work was compiled.

The Bureau of the Presidium of the World Russian People's Council decided to create a Human Rights Center, the Interfax-religion portal reports with reference to the official website of the Russian Orthodox Church. The Center will be engaged in the practical implementation of the provisions of the Declaration on Human Rights and Dignity , which was adopted by the Council in April 2006. (See also the statement on this document prepared by the Initiative Group “Common Action.” - Ed.