On December 15, in Pskov, unknown hooligans sprayed pepper spray in the premises of the Jewish community center during the celebration of Hanukkah. According to the Jewish News Agency , “at the moment when those sitting in the hall sang songs, those guests who were sitting closer to the front doors suddenly began to cough. Soon everyone began to choke, a strong smell of pepper appeared in the air. The warm festive atmosphere was destroyed, many felt bad.

Portal-Credo.ru has published a translation of an article by Lech Garlitsky, a judge of the European Court of Human Rights, "State regulation of religion: contradictory trends? Remarks on the practice of applying precedents relating to Article 9 of the Convention on Human Rights" (the article was prepared on the basis of a report that was read at the conference "Freedom of Speech and Religion - Eternal Conflict in the Period of Electoral Modernization", Budapest, May 11-13, 2006).

President Putin signed a decree approving the list of NGOs participating in the development of civil society institutions, "with the distribution of funds provided in the federal budget for 2006 for their state support," Interfax-religion reports with reference to the president's official website .

On December 16, 2006, in the Astrakhan region, by the court of Znamensk, the head of the local branch of the People's National Party (PNP), Igor Mogilev, accused of inciting ethnic hatred (Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), was sentenced by the court to one and a half years in prison with a term to be served in a colony-settlement. I.

On December 15, 2006, the prosecutor's office of the Udmurt Republic initiated a criminal case against Vasily Kryukov, a deputy of the city council of Izhevsk (Udmurtia) (deputy head of the Udmurt regional organization of the Narodnaya Volya party). He is charged with a crime under Art. 318 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("use of violence against representatives of the authorities") and Art. 319 ("insulting a representative of authority").

On December 14, 2006, the European Court of Human Rights considered the complaint of Anatoly Karman, former editor-in-chief of the Gorodskie Vesti (Volgograd) newspaper. By the decision of the European Court N 29372/02, it was recognized that the judicial authorities of the Russian Federation violated the right of journalist A. Karman to freedom of expression, provided for by Article 10 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.

In the Perm Territory, a Centralized Religious Administration of Muslims was created, subordinate to the DUM of the European part of Russia. This was announced at a press conference in the Perm press center of the Interfax-Povolzhye agency by the chairman of the new association, Mufti Khamit Galyautdinov.

Law enforcement agencies of the Chelyabinsk region report the liquidation of the Hizb ut-Tahrir cell in Magnitogorsk. Three people were detained. . " Viktor Smok, spokesman for the regional prosecutor's office, told Interfax that "two of them are residents of Magnitogorsk, one is a native of Kyrgyzstan, who was temporarily in Russia in violation of migration laws Extremist literature was confiscated from them. A criminal case has been initiated under Art.

On December 16, 2006, in Moscow, in the courtyard of a house on Zhukovsky Street, the corpse of a citizen of Kyrgyzstan was found. The operatives and experts who arrived at the scene established that the cause of death of a visitor from Kyrgyzstan was multiple stab wounds, which counted more than 50.