In December 2006, in Ussuriysk (Primorye), two attempts were made to set fire to the building of the urban national-cultural autonomy of the Koreans, located on the street. Amurskaya, 63. On December 1, a bottle of flammable liquid was thrown through a window on the 1st floor of the building where the archives of the Kore Sinmun newspaper were located. All newspapers were destroyed by fire, the ceiling and walls were charred.

On the night of December 9-10, 2006 in Tver, a house was set on fire at 23, st. Moscow, where a family of immigrants from Armenia lives. The fire started around 3 am. The owners, who noticed the fire in time, called firefighters and the fire was quickly extinguished. At the scene, firefighters found a plastic bottle filled with flammable liquid. As it turned out, this was not the first fire. About a month ago, the same family's car was set on fire.

The regular annual report of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom on Russia (Policy Focus on Russia; available in English and Russian , in PDF format) was presented on December 14, 2006 in Washington with the participation of the National Endowment Fund Democracy (National Endowment for Democracy).

On the night of December 13, in Cherepovets, Vologda Oblast, unidentified persons cut down a worship cross at the construction site of a temple in Makarinskaya Grove. The broken cross is in the Cherepovets Department of Internal Affairs. An investigation is underway into the vandalism. Sources In the Vologda region, vandals cut down a worship cross on the site of the future temple // IA "REGNUM". 2006. December 15.

In December 2006, the prosecutor's office of the Leninsky district of the city of Kirov brought to court the criminal case of Valery Goncharov, head of the regional branch of the "Unity" party, who is charged under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred). V. Goncharov is charged with distributing DVDs with the recording of the film "Russia with a Knife in the Back. Jewish Fascism." The maximum term of punishment that threatens V.

In Kaluga, the Swedish company "Centrumutvekling" is building a shopping and entertainment complex on the territory adjacent to the building owned by the "Word of Life" church. In 2003-2004 the church and the Swedish company came to an agreement that the building would be moved to another site. The company later refused to comply with this agreement, saying that they had found an alternative construction project around the church.

On December 14, 2006, the regular annual report on Russia by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom on Russia was presented in Washington. The text is available in English and Russian , in PDF format. Particular attention was paid in the report to the inadequate response of the Russian authorities to the growth of xenophobia and hate crimes, as well as to the abuse of anti-extremist legislation. See "Religion in a Secular Society" for details .

The Prosecutor's Office of Karelia opened a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation in relation to the leader of the Movement against illegal immigration (DPNI) Alexander Belov (Potkin). The DPNI leader is suspected of inciting ethnic hatred (including through the use of the media) after the events in the city of Kondopoga.

The missionary department of the Yekaterinburg diocese recommended the director of one of the orphanages in Yekaterinburg not to allow representatives of the New Acropolis cultural and educational association to enter the institution.

We publish the paper, presented by Irina Papkova (Georgetown University) on American Association for Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) in Washington DC in November, 2006.The paper is long enough and includes many footnotes, so we publish it in Word format (120 Kb). Browse or download the article .

On December 5, in the court of the Moscow District of Ryazan, preliminary hearings began on the case of the construction of the Perekrestok shopping center next to the Holy Trinity Monastery. The claim of the Ryazan interdistrict environmental prosecutor's office to invalidate the order No. 265 of Rosprirodnadzor on the organization and conduct of environmental expertise dated June 6, 2006 and the conclusion of the expert commission of the state environmental expertise in the Ryazan region No.

At an extended meeting of the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, held on December 7-10, 2006 in New York, the “Act of Canonical Communion” was signed with the Moscow Patriarchate. The document was signed by nine hierarchs. Several bishops refused to sign the “Act”. On April 18-20, 2007, a regular meeting of the ROCOR Synod of Bishops took place at the Synodal House in New York.