In mid-December 2006, Bryansk hosted a presentation of a Russian-Swiss project aimed at strengthening tolerance and optimizing intercultural and interfaith communication in the city. The project was presented by diploma winners of the international pedagogical program "Em Power" of the public organization "Children's Village Pestalozzi" (Switzerland, Trogan) Yulia Mameko and Iya Zenyukova.

In November 2006, the Pervomaisky District Court of Omsk recognized the album of the local rock band "Order" as extremist and intends to put it on the federal list of extremist materials prohibited from distribution in the territory of the Russian Federation. The Omsk prosecutor's office sent a warning about the inadmissibility of carrying out extremist activities to the chairman of the Regional Public Fund, at whose studio part of the musical album was recorded.

In the Leninsky District Court of Yaroslavl, a trial has begun on the case of the September attacks on the mosque. (Recall that the case was initiated under Part 2 of Article 282 (“Inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity”) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. - Ed. ) In the dock are 17-year-old student of an automechanical technical school Stepan Fedorov and 18-year-old Construction College student Artem Zabelin.

The press release of the HRC "Memorial" and the Committee "Civic Assistance" dated December 18 reported that hearings on the case of Hizb ut-Tahrir began in the Orenburg region in November. There are two defendants, both are charged under Art. 282-2 ("Organization of the activities of an extremist organization") of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. In addition, one of them is accused of committing a crime under Art.

On the night of December 17, 2006, in the city of Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Region, while trying to paint the wall of a building, a PPS detachment detained three young people, one of whom is suspected of desecrating the Transfiguration Cathedral of the city and the museum building of the Mologa Region in November 2006. Then on the walls of the cathedral and the museum, swastikas were drawn and inscriptions "Down with Christianity" were made, signed with the letters SH (skinhead).

"Komsomolskaya Pravda - North Caucasus" reports on the arrest on December 15 of those suspected of committing a pogrom at a cemetery in Zheleznovodsk. "They turned out to be," writes the newspaper, "three teenagers from Pyatigorsk, one of whom is 18 (he already has a criminal record for robbery), the other two are 17 years old, both of whom study at college." "The teenagers have already given confessions. According to them, that day they were returning drunk from a nightclub.

In the Leninsky District Court of Yaroslavl, a trial began on the case of desecration and arson of the cathedral mosque in September 2006. There are two defendants in the dock - 17-year-old student of the automotive technical school Stepan Fedorov and 18-year-old builder Artem Zabelin. Both defendants are accused of inciting ethnic and religious hatred (Part 2 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The trial is taking place behind closed doors.

On December 18, 2006, at a meeting of the Moscow City Duma Commission on Legislation, a discussion of the draft federal law "On Amendments to Article 4 of the Law of the Russian Federation "On the Mass Media" was held.

In Vladivostok, five teenagers were detained on suspicion of attacking three workers from North Korea (two of whom died in hospital as a result of beatings). All the detainees are underage students of schools and secondary specialized educational institutions aged 15-16. It has been established that previously detained teenagers have repeatedly attacked people, including foreign citizens, in various parts of the city: on Zhigura Street, Military Highway and Narodny Avenue.

In Rybinsk, on the night of December 17, while trying to paint the wall of a building, the police detained three young people. All of them are residents of the Kostroma region, in Rybinsk they work at a construction site.

We are publishing the cassation ruling of the Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of September 28, 2006 on the decision of the Moscow Regional Court in the case of murder motivated by ethnic hatred of July 18 . The document is reproduced according to the official publication of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation .

A press release from the HRC "Memorial" and the Committee "Civic Assistance" reports on a search conducted on December 7 in Krasnoyarsk in the apartment of Muslims who study the works of theologian Said Nursi. “The search was carried out with the participation of investigator V.N. "All Said Nursi's books are subject to seizure. The next day, the Nursists were visited by FSB officers.