On February 8, 2007, the conference "Hate Speech and Xenophobia: Russia, the 21st Century" was held in Moscow at the Central House of Journalists. , "Demos" and the Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations. The third conference in the last five years, held within the framework of the project, was devoted to discussing the situation with hate speech and xenophobia in Russian society, public politics and the media, as well as analyzing possible strategies to counter xenophobia and hatred.

The Moscow Property Department filed a lawsuit with the Arbitration Court for the early termination of the lease agreement and the eviction of the Moscow Islamic University (MIU) from the building of the former kindergarten at 12 Proezd Kirova, where the university has been located since 2000.

Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev said that as of February 2007, Interior Ministry and FSB officers had identified 11 cells of the Hizb ut-Tahrir organization and identified 139 of its members, more than 20 of which were in the Volga Federal District. In addition, the activities of the "Islamic Jamaat", which operated in Tatarstan, Bashkiria and the Ulyanovsk region, were stopped.

The prosecutor's office of the Oktyabrsky district of Lipetsk, after receiving an anonymous complaint, sent an order to the State Commission for Supervision of Architecture and Construction to check the legality of the activities of the Holy Trinity Church of Evangelical Christian Baptists.

On February 9, 2007, the Sverdlovsk Regional Court sentenced Artem Gattarov, Davyd Dushkin, Alexey Vlasov, Olga Murtazaeva and Nikolai Golubnichy, accused of murdering 21-year-old Jew Andrei Dzyuba based on national hatred. Four young people were found guilty by the court under clauses "zh, l" part 2 of Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“murder committed by a group of persons motivated by national hatred”).

On February 9, unknown people fired at the house of Mullah Saifutdin Tsoloev from an underbarrel grenade launcher. One shell hit the roof of the house, but no one was injured in the explosion. An operational-investigative group left for the scene of the incident, an investigation is underway into the fact of the shelling. A day earlier , a grenade was thrown into the courtyard of a distant relative of S. Tsoloev, Imam Kh. Tsoloev.

On February 9, 2007, in Yaroslavl, the Kirovsky District Court sentenced Pyotr Lushnikov, who attacked an African student in December 2006, to two years' imprisonment with a suspended sentence of two years' probation. Recall that the transport prosecutor's office charged the attacker under Part 2 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("incitement of hatred and enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity on the basis of race").

Director of the Institute of General History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, academician Alexander Chubaryan, in an interview with Nezavisimaya Gazeta, spoke about the beginning of testing of the textbook "World Religions", which they worked on for two years at the Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. A.

The Supreme Court of Bashkiria upheld the cassation appeal of Airat Dilmukhametov. In May 2006, he was sentenced to a year of imprisonment with a probationary period of three years for participating in a protest rally on March 26, 2005. Then A.

On February 9, 2007 in St. Petersburg, on suspicion of involvement in the attack on the anti-fascist Ivan Yelin, the head of the local branch of the Slavic Union, Dmitry Mikhailov, was detained. His apartment was searched. Recall that earlier the head of the St. Petersburg branch of the SS, D. Mikhailov, was already detained by law enforcement agencies. Based on materials from right-wing websites.

At the beginning of February 2007, a training seminar "Prevention of extremism and xenophobia in Russian society" was held in Ulyanovsk. The event was organized by the Research Center "Region" with the support of the Federal Agency for Education. The course was attended by representatives of youth policy committees, the regional administration, children's and youth public associations, and libraries.

On February 9, 2007, the official website of the Movement Against Illegal Immigration (DPNI) was hacked. When trying to load the site, the user gets to the old version of the United Russia site. According to the leader of the DPNI, Alexander Belov, the site was subjected to a hacker attack.

On February 1, 2007, the European Roma Rights Center (ERRC) addressed an open letter to Pavel Gusev, editor-in-chief of Moskovsky Komsomolets, with a request to stop the newspaper's systematic defamation of the Roma. The reason for the appeal was the criminal chronicle published by the newspaper, which mentions the ethnicity of the participants in the criminal episodes.

On February 8, 2007, the head of the CEC, Alexander Veshnyakov, speaking at the All-Russian Conference "Media and Elections", stated that "if the proposed campaign materials clearly contain signs of inciting ethnic hatred and other improper appeals, the editor-in-chief has the right to prohibit broadcasting or publication and go to court . " The head of the Duma Committee, in turn, drew attention to the possibility of criminal prosecution. In addition, A.

On February 9, Deputy Alexander Chuev introduced a bill to the State Duma that would amend the Criminal Code and classify illegal actions against clerics as aggravated crimes.