On January 28, 2007, nationalist rallies took place in some Russian cities. The organizers of the events were the Movement Against Illegal Migration (DPNI), “Slavic Union”, “Union of the Russian People”, etc. These events were organized by the same forces that held the “Russian March” on November 4, 2006. Formally, the actions were held under the slogan “In support of respect for the constitutional rights of prisoners.” Moscow.

Obviously, the process of "budding" of the NRC , which began earlier at the federal level, has also reached Chita. On January 27, 2007, a split occurred in the Chita branch of the RNC. editor-in-chief of the Russian Transbaikal One part of the nationalists supports Alexander Yaremenko, newspaper, and the other part supports Sergey Avdeev, teacher of the Transbaikal Pedagogical University. Avdeev's supporters publish the Russian Dauria newspaper. A.

Myanmar citizens were convicted in Kaluga In January 2007, skinheads who attacked . The attackers were accused of "inciting ethnic hatred." The court sentenced two skinheads to 6 and 12 months of probation, another attacker was sentenced to 2 years in prison in an educational colony. The verdict was appealed, in connection with which it did not enter into force. Three residents of Kaluga, one of whom is a minor, were detained on suspicion of committing a crime in March 2005.

On January 22, 2007, the Nazis attacked a girl in Moscow. According to the victim, two guys dressed in jackets with stripes in the form of Celtic crosses caught up with her in the passage. The girl sprayed one of them in the face with a gas spray and ran down the passage. The second one chased after her, knocked her down and started beating her in the stomach and in the face. The victim was able to break free and run away. The victim left a statement with the police.

We are publishing, practically unchanged, the press release of the Memorial Human Rights Center and the Civic Assistance Committee, distributed on the evening of January 28 and dedicated to the Kazan case on Hizb ut-Tahrir, since this case has not yet been covered on our website, but the main thing - because in this case a new and very powerful legal innovation was applied - the use of Article 278 of the Criminal Code.

On January 29, 2007, opening the XV Christmas Educational Readings in Moscow, Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus' declared that the teaching of "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture" in Russian schools would not violate the principle of separation of church and state. Alexy II also called for the recognition of destructive calls to make religion a completely private matter and push it into the realm of private life.

In December 2006, the prosecutor's office filed new charges under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and under Article 150 ("involvement in criminal activity of minors"). It should be reminded that Yu. Ekishev was sentenced by the Syktyvkar city court to one and a half years of imprisonment with serving the sentence in a colony-settlement. He was found guilty under Part 1 of Art.

On January 29, 2007, Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov declared that Wahhabism has no roots , social or religious base in the republic. "Wahhabism was not initially accepted by the Chechen people, despite the fact that hundreds of foreign mercenaries tried to plant it here, as well as so-called preachers who leaked into the Chechen Republic from other regions ...", R. Kadyrov told reporters.

On January 26, 2007, in Moscow, near the FM club, a fight between anti-fascists and Nazis took place. (Probably Lokomotiv fans took part in the fight). In total, more than 30 people took part in the clash. There are wounded. The skirmish was provoked by the Nazis, who began to raise their hands in a fascist salute. After this, a brawl broke out in three places in the hall.

On January 29, 2007, the magazine "Expert" published an article by Nikolai Silaev "Technology of Kondopoga", in which the author draws attention to how right-wing radicals mimic, intercepting the slogans of legality from human rights activists. The reason for the article was the then planned action "in defense of political prisoners", which right-wing radicals positioned as another "Russian March".

The Chelyabinsk public organization "Civic Position" held a press conference at which it said that about 30 thousand citizens are adherents of "non-traditional" religious organizations. "The most active are Scientologists, Jehovah's Witnesses, the New Life sect, Mormons, munnites, as well as the local religious community Radasteya," Civic Position representative Vladimir Syrov said at a press conference.

On January 26, 2007, the district election commission of the Oktyabrsky district of Samara refused to register Mikhail Matveev as a candidate for deputies of the Samara Provincial Duma. The main argument in favor of removing Mikhail Matveev from the pre-election race was the distribution of illegal campaign materials in his constituency. According to members of the election commission, campaign materials incite ethnic hatred.