In Petrozavodsk on the night of December 14, unknown vandals painted the word "Satan" on the doors of the Exaltation of the Cross Cathedral. A representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs told Interfax that "no criminal case has yet been initiated.

On December 13, 2006, the Sovetsky Court of Lipetsk passed a sentence on 21-year-old Mikhail Sokolov, who on September 10, 2006 attacked two Chinese citizens. M. Sokolov (nickname "Needle") was charged under two articles: "attempted robbery" and "robbery with the use of violence not dangerous to life and health." The defendant fully admitted his guilt. The court sentenced the skinhead to two and a half years in a strict regime colony.

On December 11, 2006, a trial began in Novorossiysk in the case of Sergey Putintsev, chairman of the right-wing radical neo-pagan organization Fatherland Society of Russian Culture, who, we recall, is accused of inciting ethnic hatred (part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). At the first meeting, the defendants filed a motion to challenge the judge, which was granted. As S. Putintsev stated, the next step will be a motion to challenge the prosecutor.

On December 10, 2006, the VII Congress of the Russian National Union (RONS) took place in Moscow. The congress was attended by deputy Nikolai Kuryanovich , elected co-chairman of the Union of the Russian People (SRN), expelled from the Liberal Democratic Party , leaders of the Patriotic Resources Ring, representatives of a number of Russian national-patriotic organizations. I.

Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the government to formulate proposals to tighten responsibility for crimes motivated by extremism. The president announced this on December 11, 2006 at a meeting with members of the government, which was attended by key ministers, as well as the leadership of the Kremlin administration. “There have been proposals to tighten responsibility for crimes on national grounds, which are classified as extremist,” V. Putin said.

In early November, unknown vandals painted a swastika and satanic symbols on the wall of the Spassky Cathedral in Yelabuga.

On December 14, 2006, the Leninsky District Court of Yekaterinburg sentenced the skinheads who had beaten the black TV presenter Martin Adams, a native of Somalia. 21-year-old Oleg Orlov and 23-year-old Vladimir Molokov were found guilty under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("inciting hatred or enmity on the grounds of race"). Orlov was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison, and Molokov to 3 years in prison. They will serve their sentence in a colony-settlement.

On December 9, 2006, a congress of the Congress of Russian Communities (CRC) was held in Moscow at the Izmailovskaya Hotel. The main topic of the congress was the revival of the KRO and the approval of its governing bodies. Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, ex-leader of the Rodina party Dmitry Rogozin was elected chairman of the KRO. D. Rogozin said that he considers it necessary to protect Russian businessmen.

In early November 2006, unknown vandals painted a swastika and satanic symbols on the wall of the Spassky Cathedral in Yelabuga. In a conversation between members of the parish council of the Pokrovsky Cathedral and law enforcement officials, the opinion was expressed that this was done by teenagers who " "do not give an account of their actions . Sources Spassky Cathedral of the city of Yelabuga desecrated with images of swastikas and satanic symbols // Week.ru. 2006. December 14.

On December 12, 2006, within the framework of the project "Counteracting Hate Speech in the Russian Media" in Perm, a public discussion "" Hate Speech in Society, Politics and the Media: From Words to Action?" was held, in which public activists, officials, journalists of the Perm Territory took part . Mikhail Melnikov, analyst at the Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations (Moscow), Galina Kozhevnikova (Sova Center, Moscow), Anna Sharogradskaya (Regional Press Institute, St.

On December 5, believers of the Protestant churches of the Novgorod region addressed the governor of the region, M.M. Prusak.

Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District Kamil Iskhakov takes personal control of the investigation into the attack in Vladivostok on North Korean citizens, two of whom have died. This was reported on December 14, 2006 in the press service of the Far Eastern plenipotentiary. "In a region where so many nationalities are mixed, it is unacceptable to ignore such antics. This is explosive.

We publish the indictment in the case of right-wing neo-pagan Sergei Putintsev, the trial of which began on December 11 in Novorossiysk. The publication is not official and is reproduced on the materials of a mailing list sent on behalf of the accused himself. The mailing grammar has been preserved. For ethical reasons, we have removed from the text all the home addresses mentioned in it and, for security reasons, the names of witnesses for the prosecution.

On December 13, a regular meeting of the presidential council for interaction with religious organizations was held. The religious figures included in it appealed to the chairman of the council, the head of the presidential administration, Sergei Sobyanin, with a request to revise some of the provisions of the new Russian law on NGOs. We are talking about the reporting rules that have been introduced since 2007, which have already provoked protests from a number of religious organizations.