In St. Petersburg, a criminal case against the nationalist Pavel Mitrofanov, who distributed extremist leaflets on June 5, 2006 on St. Isaac's Square, was brought to court. The details of the case and charges are unknown. Presumably, the case against Mitrofanov was initiated under Art. 280 (calls for extremist activity) or 282 (inciting national or religious hatred). Sources The prosecutor's office sent to court several criminal cases with an extremist motive // Fontanka.ru. 2007.

On January 16, the head of the Civil Registry Office of the Voronezh Region M.A. Severgina and Metropolitan Sergiy of Voronezh and Borisoglebsk signed a cooperation agreement.

A 16-year-old native of Armenia was murdered in Moscow. On the morning of January 19, 2007, at house 45 on the street. Kastanaevskaya, the body of 7th grade student Artur Martirosyan was found with a stab wound to the left half of the chest. The teenager was registered in the city of Tomilino near Moscow and lived in Moscow in a rented apartment with his parents since 2003. On the fact of what happened, law enforcement agencies of the capital initiated a criminal case under Art.

In January 2007, it became known that Moskovsky Komsomolets had won a civil court case over its anti-Gypsy publications. The consideration of the case took place on January 7, 2006 in the Presnensky District Court of Moscow. A lawsuit for the protection of honor and dignity and compensation for non-pecuniary damage was filed by Antonina Sukhovskaya, a resident of St.

Issa Kostoev, a member of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security, a representative of the government of the Republic of Ingushetia, suggested that the senators make a number of changes to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. In particular, as the DECR Communication Service reports with reference to Regions.Ru, according to I. Kostoev, one should “qualify illegal actions against churches and clergymen as aggravating circumstances.

On January 22, more than 8,200 signatures were handed over to the Moscow government and the Moscow Patriarchate in support of the project, which provides for the restoration of the Strastnoy Monastery, destroyed in 1937, on Pushkinskaya Square, the capital .

"Novaya Gazeta" reports on the conflict that arose in Saratov after the city authorities handed over half of the house in which pensioner Svetlana Maslennikova lives to the local diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.

On January 20, 2007, in Veliky Novgorod, a verdict was passed in the case of Pavel Ivanov, editor of the Russkoye Veche newspaper. The court qualified the actions of Pavel Ivanov under Part 1 of Art. 282 (incitement of national, racial or religious hatred) and part 2 of Art. 280 (public calls for extremist activity, committed with the use of the media) and sentenced him to 2 years and 4 months in prison in a penal colony.

On January 19, 2007, the State Duma adopted in the first reading the bill of the People's Assembly of Dagestan "On Amendments to Article 13 of the Federal Law" On Counteracting Extremist Activities "(on the issue of the powers of the prosecutor), which gives prosecutors the right to apply to the court to recognize information materials as extremist, not only by the location of the organization that published such materials, but also by the place of their discovery and distribution.The bill was

In Karelia, the investigation of a criminal case against 6 natives of the North Caucasus, who participated in a fight near the Chaika restaurant in the city of Kondopoga, has been completed. The defendants are charged with the murder on August 30, 2006 of two residents of Kondopoga and causing harm to the health of nine more residents of Kondopoga. Currently, the victims are getting acquainted with the materials of the case. The case will be brought to court in the near future.

On January 17, 2007, the Cherepovets newspaper "Rech" published an interview with Anna Porokhova, head of the department for migration affairs of the department of the federal migration service for the Vologda region, dedicated to the start of the implementation of the State Program to Assist the Voluntary Resettlement of Compatriots Living Abroad to the Russian Federation, which received the status of law in June 2006.

In the January issue of the bulletin of non-governmental organizations "The legislative process in the State Duma: a human rights analysis" Lev Levinson analyzes the Federal Law "On Amendments to the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offenses" adopted by the State Duma on October 20, 2006 (in terms of strengthening responsibility for violating the order attracting foreign citizens and stateless persons to work in the Russian Federation).

On January 22, 2007, on the eve of the consideration of the cassation in the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation in the case of the liquidation of the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society, a group of human rights activists issued a statement in defense of the RCFS and freedom of association in general. Representatives of the SOVA Center added their signatures to the letter in defense of the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society , but consider it necessary to add their comments.

The St. Petersburg prosecutor's office sent to court the criminal case of military pensioner Vladislav Nikolsky (a member of the Council of the St. Petersburg branch of the Union of the Russian People), who in March 2006 ordered the publication of an extremist brochure from a printing house. The circulation was confiscated at the printing house, and the detainee V. Nikolsky was charged under Part 3 of Art. 30, part 1, art. 280, part 1 of Art.