On January 25, 2007, the Belomorsk Department of Rosokhrankultura filed a lawsuit in court to terminate the activities of the Zyryanskaya Zhizn newspaper. This is a website with this name, since the paper version of the newspaper has not existed since May 2006. The reason for the lawsuit was an interview published in issue No. 28 of November 27, 2006 with the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Komi Republic, Leonid Vokuev, entitled "Leonid Vokuev:" A Jew is also a Jew in Africa.

On February 8, 2007, in Nizhny Novgorod, a group of riot police beat up natives of Azerbaijan working in the Golden Elephant cafe. Two visitors to the cafe, introducing themselves as employees of the regional prosecutor's office, refused to pay the bill and demonstratively left the establishment. After some time, two men entered the cafe. They began beating Azerbaijanis working there, as well as cafe visitors from the Azerbaijani diaspora, using gas canisters.

On February 8, 2007, in Nizhny Novgorod, at about 10 pm, 45-year-old Azerbaijani citizen Shamsaddin Tagiyev was beaten in an electric train car. Four young people approached Sh. Tagiyev and started beating him, shouting: "Russia is for the Russians!", "Get out of our country!" . The man tried to hide in another car, but 10 more people joined the attackers in the vestibule. None of the passengers in the car stood up for the victim. At st.

On February 12, 2007, the Moscow City Court left in custody Ivan Mironov, the fourth defendant in the case of the attempt on Anatoly Chubais. Thus, the cassation appeal of Mironov's lawyers against the decision of the Basmanny Court, who asked to change his preventive measure to any other, not related to deprivation of liberty, was rejected. At the next hearing, the court will continue to examine the written evidence in the case.

Construction work near Adler in preparation for the 2014 Olympics, which may be held in Sochi, aroused fear among local Old Believers. The village of Imeretinka, located near the construction site, may be resettled in the future. The Old Believers, who make up a significant part of the population of this village, do not intend to leave their land. At the council of the community, it was decided to defend their houses and plots.

On February 13, answering questions from readers of Moskovsky Komsomolets during a "straight line", Deputy Mayor of Moscow Valery Vinogradov said that the Moscow Society for Krishna Consciousness had nevertheless been allocated a site for the construction of a temple. According to the official, "the order on the allocation of land is already at the exit," documentation is being drawn up for a site in the Molzhaninovsky district, in the Northern Administrative District.

At the beginning of February 2007, the Kislovodsk city court passed a sentence against a 49-year-old resident of the Lunacharsky settlement in the city of Kislovodsk, Stavropol Territory, under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("incitement of national, racial or religious hatred"). The woman was sentenced by the court to one year of imprisonment conditionally with a probationary period of one year.