On December 7, 2006, the Federal Law “On Amendments to the Federal Law “On Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights and the Right to Participate in a Referendum of Citizens of the Russian Federation” and the Civil Procedure Code of the Russian Federation” came into force, adopted by the State Duma in the third reading on November 17 and signed Presidents on December 5.

On December 7, the Interfax-religion portal, citing the press service of the FSB for Tatarstan, reported that a group of people suspected of involvement in Hizb ut-Tahrir was detained in Kazan as a result of a joint operation by the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic. All detainees are citizens of Russia. There are more than ten of them. The FSB Department opened a criminal case under Art.

On December 6, the governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region V.P. Shantsev signed a decree on the appointment of the first fifteen members of the regional Public Chamber. Among them was the head of the apparatus of the regional DUM, Damir-hazrat Mukhetdinov, according to IIK Islam in Nizhny Novgorod . December 7 news agency "NTA-Privolzhye" gave a complete list of the first 15 members of the Chamber, appointed by the governor.

On December 6, 2006, during a meeting of the President of the Russian Federation with the leaders of political parties, the chairman of the YABLOKO party, Grigory Yavlinsky, gave his definition of extremism and extremists.

On October 24-25, Yakutsk hosted an interregional conference "Fundamentals of Spiritual Security of the Far East Region", whose participants, in particular, stated "the intensification of the cultural and religious expansion of foreign states in the Far East" and "the negative impact of various destructive cults, sects, on the physical and spiritual - the moral health of the inhabitants of the Far East, leading to the internal decay of the inhabitants" (see the final document of the conference).

On December 5, VTsIOM published the data of the "True and Imaginary Patriotism" poll, the purpose of which was to find out whether Russians consider themselves patriots, and what they mean by the concept of "patriotism." The survey data allowed sociologists to talk about some kind of "pragmatic patriotism" (that is, that Russians do not see anything contradictory in the fact that a person considers himself a patriot and at the same time works in a foreign campaign or has a foreign spouse).

We publish selected chapters from Alexander Osipov's book "National-cultural autonomy: ideas, decisions, institutions" (St. Petersburg: TsNSI, 2004. 506 p.). The book examines the history of the idea of ​​"national-cultural" or non-territorial autonomy for ethnic groups, its role in public discussions about the organization of ethnic diversity, and its impact on practical politics.

In Moscow, the investigation into the murder of anti-fascist Alexander Ryukhin has been completed. Recall that A. Ryukhin was killed in Moscow, near the Domodedovo metro station on April 16, 2006. Suspects of the murder (three out of six skinheads) detained at the end of July were initially charged under Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder with aggravating circumstances), and then the case was reclassified to Art. 213 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism).

On December 5, during a scheduled inspection by the Federal Registration Service of the Association of Evangelical Christian Churches of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), employees of the republican FSB and the Department for Peoples Affairs and Federal Relations of Yakutia also tried to inspect this religious organization.

On December 6, 2006, at a meeting of the Moscow City Duma, a resolution was adopted "On the review of the draft federal law N 369190-3 "On the foundations of state policy in the field of interethnic relations in the Russian Federation." The Moscow City Duma decided to support the project, the need was noted to supplement the document with articles on the regulation of migration processes, participation in the formation of interethnic peace and the consent of religious organizations, etc.

On December 5, 2006, in the weekly column of TV criticism "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" published a review by Yuri Bogomolov, in which. In particular, outrage was expressed at the propaganda of nationalism on the Kultura TV channel. The attention of critics was attracted by Vitaly Tretyakov's program "What to do", the theme of which was the question "Nationalism - the norm or pathology?" (the program aired on December 3, 2006).

Muslims of the Tver region were given the opportunity to regularly meet with prisoners in correctional facilities in the region. This is provided for by an agreement on cooperation between the Muslim community and the penitentiary institution of the Tver region, Islam.ru reports with reference to Muslim-Press news agency. By the end of 2006, the leadership of the Muslim society in Tver is to hold several meetings with prisoners from local correctional institutions.