On January 31, 2007, the deputy chairman of the Synodal Department for Youth Affairs of the Moscow Patriarchate, Archimandrite Gennady (Gogolev), made a report at the youth section of the XV Christmas readings, in which he called for looking for “active people, passionaries,” using the experience of the youth organization “Nashi.” Archimandrite Gennady spoke in detail about the activities of the Nashi emissary in Kostroma, who recruited about one and a half thousand new activists into the

On January 31, 2007, Ravil Gainutdin, chairman of the Council of Muftis of Russia, gave an interview to the Islam in Nizhny Novgorod website, in which, in particular, he criticized the activities of the country's Interreligious Council for supporting "one confession." The Interreligious Council of Russia, according to R.

On January 29, 2007, the Moscow Chertanovsky Court held a preliminary hearing on the case of evicting the family of the executive director of the New Life Evangelical Christian Mission, Sergei Shashin, from the apartment of his parishioner, Iraida Zaichikova. I. Zaichikova was going to conclude a life annuity agreement with S. Shashin and provided a power of attorney for the right to dispose of her savings.

In Krasnodar, as part of the trial under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, a psychological and psychiatric examination was completed in relation to a local resident who was accused of inciting religious hatred on the Kuban.Ru forum. "According to the conclusion of experts, a 31-year-old man was declared insane. He did not realize the nature of his actions ," said a representative of the prosecutor's office of the Prikubansky district of the city.

In the winter of 2008, in Moscow near the Kakhovskaya metro station, about 10 people attacked an Afghan citizen, Mohammad Din Nizamuddin Rezai, shouting "kill the blacks." The victim was left alone in the street, when he woke up he called his friends who took him away. The Afghan has an injured eye. He was hospitalized, spent three days in the hospital, then he was expelled from there "as an illegal immigrant." The victim turned to the Zyuzino police department.

On January 22, 2007, in Perm, in the Argo cafe, one of the cafe visitors, Viktor Birzhevoi, was beaten (according to another version, also robbed). The beating was accompanied by insults on "ethnic grounds" and anti-Russian slogans. According to the victim, he booked a table in a cafe to celebrate his birthday with friends. After everyone left, he got a call from the cafe and said that "someone was missing something" and demanded to come and sort it out. V.

On February 1, 2007, at the sixth annual press conference for Russian and Western journalists, President Vladimir Putin, answering a question about the reasons for the growth of xenophobia in Russia, said that the latter is associated "with a certain ideological vacuum that arose after the collapse of the Soviet Union, with a feeling infringement of the main national groups" . As one of the reasons for xenophobia, the President named the unresolved issues with migration.

On January 31, 2007, the State Duma held a discussion on limiting extremist manifestations during elections. The United Russia faction supported V. Putin, who on February 31 spoke at the FSB collegium with an appeal to prevent manifestations of extremism and intolerance on the eve of elections to the State Duma and regional legislative assemblies.

International "Memorial" and Mufti Ashirov (Ashirov Nafik Khudchatovich) appealed against the warning about the inadmissibility of extremist activity issued on February 26 for publishing Mufti Ashirov's opinion on Hizb ut-Tahrir brochures. At the same time, we noted the obvious illegitimacy of this warning. On September 29, the Zamoskvoretsky Court rejected their complaint. And on December 26, this decision was confirmed by the Judicial Collegium for Civil Cases of the Moscow City Court.

In January 2007, policemen from Ulyanovsk came to the apartment of Sergei Kokorkin, a schoolboy who sympathized with the NBP. The purpose of the visit was to talk with Sergei himself and his parents about the dangers of political extremism. Not having found the schoolboy at home, the police officers had a conversation with his parents, after which they actually conducted a search in Sergei's room.

On February 1, 2007, in Nazran, unidentified persons fired automatic weapons at the car of Ingush Mufti Isa Khamkhoev. Mufti and his son were injured and taken to the Nazran hospital. I. Khamkhoev received light tangential wounds and, after he received medical assistance, was discharged. His son is in intensive care in critical condition. Sources An attempt was made on the mufti of Ingushetia - he was slightly injured, and his son was in intensive care // Interfax-Religion. 2007.