On the evening of December 19, 2006 in the city of Vsevolozhsk, Leningrad Region, on the street. Barkanovskaya, a citizen of Kyrgyzstan was killed. As the investigation later established, a 15-year-old teenager attacked the victim "out of a sense of dislike for persons of a different nationality" and "inflicted at least 5 blows with sharp objects on the chest" . The victim died at the scene of the crime "from injuries to vital organs and acute blood loss .

On December 9, the pastor of the Church of Evangelical Christians "Living Spring" village. Solntsevo, Kursk region, Lyubov Karatayeva filed a complaint with the village police department.

On December 16, in Novosibirsk, an attack was made on a minister of the church of Evangelical Christians-Baptists, David Karman. An unidentified man fired a double-barreled shotgun at point-blank range. Vital organs damaged. The victim underwent surgery. Later, the Russian Union of Evangelical Christian Baptists clarified that the attacker was a ward of D. Karman, a person with mental disorders, who was cared for by the victim. Sources Urgently! Please pray!

On December 20, 206, the Moscow Regional Court dismissed the jury in the case of the assassination attempt on the head of RAO UES of Russia, Anatoly Chubais. Thus, the prosecutor's request was granted. The state prosecutor asked to dismiss the jury due to information that appeared in the media revealing the progress of the closed trial.

On December 19, during the visit of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II to the Nikolo-Ugreshsky Monastery near Moscow, the director of the Moscow State United Museum-Reserve "Kolomenskoye" Lyudmila Kolesnikova donated to the monastery an icon-reliquary and a fold of the middle of the 19th century. Previously, these icons belonged to the Old Believer chapel, which was closed in 1939.

On December 19, an agreement was signed between the Department of Internal Affairs for the Arkhangelsk region and the Arkhangelsk diocese.

On December 20, 2006, the federal court of the Leninsky district of the city of Vladivostok granted the petition of the Primorsky Territory Prosecutor's Office and chose a preventive measure in the form of detention for two minors suspected of beating citizens of the DPRK. Recall that during the preliminary investigation, were detained 5 minors aged 15-16 years, involved in this crime, . All of them are students of schools and special educational institutions.

On December 11-17, 2006, the 5th City Week of Tolerance "We feel good together" was held in Armavir. It was organized by the association "Start" and the youth association "Life without drugs". As part of the event, tolerance trainings for teenagers and parents were held in schools and public organizations of the city, which were conducted by ASPU students. The Week of Tolerance was attended by 18 comprehensive schools of the city, boarding school No.

On November 25-26, VTsIOM conducted a survey entitled "Religion and Faith in Our Society", during which 1,587 people were polled in 153 settlements in 46 regions of Russia. Here are the results of the survey in full. The All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) provides data on which religions Russians consider themselves followers of, and what they basically understand by religion. Two-thirds of the Russians surveyed consider themselves Orthodox (63%); to Muslims - 6%.

On the night of December 20, an Orthodox cross was desecrated near the building of the Pedagogical College of the Sakhalin State University in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. According to the head of the missionary department of the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and Kuril diocese, Archpriest Viktor Gorbach, unknown people tore off the cross and burned the icon of John of Kronstadt. Surveillance cameras recorded a group of young people near the cross.

Tamara Kvitkovskaya, Chairman of the Board of the Public Committee for Human Rights, sent a statement to the Tushino Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office in Moscow about insulting religious feelings. T. Kvitkovskaya considered insulting the phrase from Mikhail Sitnikov's article "Halloween? Don't let him in!", published on the website of the All-Russian Civil Congress on November 1, 2006. However, the applicant filed a complaint only with Portal-Credo.ru, which reprinted this article. T.

In mid-December 2006, Volgograd hosted the forum "The Role of Local Self-Government Bodies in the Implementation of Interethnic Policy", organized by the Interim Commission of the Volgograd City Duma on Interethnic Issues, the press service of the Volgograd City Duma reports. The participants of the event drew attention to the positive experience of cooperation between the authorities of Volgograd and national public organizations.