Priest Andrei Spiridonov announced the start of a campaign to collect signatures for the removal of Pavel Gusev, editor-in-chief of Moskovsky Komsomolets, from the Public Chamber. The priest considers wrong the lack of reaction of the Orthodox community to the insulting comments of "Moskovsky Komsomolets" about the death of the Tver priest Andrei Nikolaev.

On January 22, 2007, Pavel Turukhin, ataman of the Stanichny Cossack Society of the Sergiev Posad District, was interrogated and then detained at the city prosecutor's office in Sergiev Posad. On January 22, 2007, P. Turukhin was charged under Part 1 of Art. 282.1 ("organizations of the extremist community") and Part 1 of Art. 282, paragraph "c" part 2 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("incitement of national hatred").

On January 20, an agreement was signed between the Museum of Wooden Architecture "Malye Korely" and the Arkhangelsk diocese. The agreement documented the ongoing several years of cooperation. Since 2006, a church service has been held weekly in the church restored at the museum. Museum Director Mikhail Lopatkin commented on the agreement: “It is very important that our monuments have a spiritual content.

On January 23, 2007, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, as we expected , refused to satisfy the cassation appeal of the leader of the RCFS, Stanislav Dmitrievsky, and recognized the liquidation of the Nizhny Novgorod interregional public organization “Russian-Chechen Friendship Society” as legal.

*We are publishing Levinson's commentary on the bill "On Amendments to Articles 214 and 244 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation", which has already passed two hearings in the State Duma. The text under the heading "Care for Youth" was published in issue 107 of the bulletin "The Legislative Process in the State Duma: Human Rights Analysis".

On January 23, 2007, preliminary hearings were held in Novosibirsk in the case of Boris Mironov, former Minister of the Press of the Russian Federation, accused of inciting ethnic hatred (Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Mironov's defense asked to change his preventive measure from detention to release on bail.

Rodionov's publishing house lost a lawsuit over a Moulin Rouge magazine advertisement featuring a semi-nude model. Earlier, the Office of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (UFAS) in Moscow recognized the advertising as unethical, and the Publishing House tried to challenge this decision by applying to the Arbitration Court. The litigation lasted 4 years. The court indicated that it relies on the explanation of the OFAS, which argued its conclusions with quotations from the Bible and the Koran.

On January 22, 2007, representatives of the opposition youth movement "We" appealed to the Moscow prosecutor's office with a demand to initiate a criminal case under paragraph "c" of Part 2 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred committed by an organized group) against activists of the youth movement "Mestnye".

The Minister of Internal Affairs of Karachay-Cherkessia, Nikolay Osyak, said that about 300 adherents of Wahhabism live in the republic. During 2006, several Wahhabis were killed, but the number of supporters of this religious movement is replenished by new people. Thus, N.

January 22, 2007 in Moscow at about 19:30. In the courtyard of house 17 on Garibaldi Street, the body of 46-year-old Zurab Dzhalagonia, a native of Georgia, was found. Experts established that the unknown perpetrator inflicted about seven stab wounds on the victim in the chest and stomach. According to unofficial data, Z. Jalagonia was attacked by 10 people after he spoke on the phone in Georgian on the street.

On January 23, 2007, Viktor Bratanov, head of the Nizhny Novgorod police department, reported that, according to the statistics of the police department, in 2006, 11 crimes were committed against foreign students in the region, which had an "ideological coloring", that is, on the basis of national hatred. We have data on only four cases in which 6 people were injured.