On February 1, 2007, on behalf of the Vice-President of the International Union of Roma Nadezhda Demeter and the President of the Federal National-Cultural Autonomy of Russian Roma Alexander Bariev, the Public Collegium for Press Complaints received a complaint about anti-Roma propaganda, which, according to the applicants, was contained in the newspaper published on February 10, 2004 year on the NTV channel program "Coma" , which dealt with the problem of drug trafficking in the city of Kimry,

On February 12, 2007, in Sergiev Posad, as part of a criminal case on inciting ethnic and religious hatred, new charges were brought against Cossacks of the Sergiev Posad village A.A. Mukhamedgariev and E.G. Tupikin. Judging by the context of the right-wing radical sites, the charges were brought under two articles of the Criminal Code - chch. 1.2 Art. 282 (incitement of national hatred by an organized group using the media) and Part 2 of Art. 282-1 (participation in an extremist community).

On February 21, 2007, Anatoly Omelchuk, the head of Region-Tyumen State TV and Radio Broadcasting Company, apologized for the incorrect remarks about the Tatars that had been made on the air of the television company a month earlier.

On February 15, 2007, the European Roma Rights Center (ERRC) addressed Boris Sorkin, Editor-in-Chief of the news agency "REGNUM", with an open letter in which he called on the agency to abandon anti-Roma hate speech.

Director of the branch of the GTRK "Region-Tyumen" A.K. Omelchuk responded to a letter from Galimzyan Bikmullin, chairman of the regional DUM, who considered it a humiliation of the national dignity of the Tatars to use the expression "persons of Tatar nationality" in relation to those suspected of a crime in one of the channel's reports.

Portal "Interfax-religion" with reference to the duty of the Kirov District Department of Internal Affairs of Makhachkala reports that early in the morning on February 22, the parishioners of the quarter mosque on the street. Nagornoy found the body of Imam Dagir Kachaev in the ablution room. The 52-year-old imam was killed with two shots to the head. A criminal case has been initiated under Art.

Sedmitsa.ru, with reference to the press service of the Community of Orthodox Web Developers, announces the opening of the official website of the World Russian People's Cathedral www.vrns.ru. - “On the site,” the agency said, “you can find materials from previous councils, main speeches, documents adopted by the participants of the VRNS ... <...> All information materials of the site are richly illustrated.

The court of Tobolsk ruled in the case of the local Hizb ut-Tahrir cell. with reference to the city prosecutor's office reports As the Interfax-religion portal , "leaders of the cell Alim Timkanov (born 1975) and Rustam Nazyrov (born 1979), accused under Part 1 of Article 282.2 (organizing the activities of an extremist organization ), received respectively two years, five months and two years of imprisonment in a colony-settlement.

On the evening of February 21, 2007, in Moscow, on Gospitalny Val Street, the body of a murdered 38-year-old Armenian citizen Armen Harutyunyan was found with 22 stab wounds. The prosecutor's office of the South-Eastern Administrative District opened a criminal case on this fact under Part 1 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder). Let us remind you that on February 9, a citizen of Uzbekistan was killed in a similar way.

On February 21, the Federal Service for Supervision of Compliance with Legislation in the Sphere of Mass Communications and the Protection of Cultural Heritage (Rosokhrankultura) held a meeting on the topic: "The inadmissibility of abuse of freedom of the mass media.

Portal-Credo.ru published an appeal from clergy, monastics and laity of the Anadyr-Chukchi Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, headed by Bishop Diomede (Dzyuban) “to all the faithful children of the Holy Orthodox Church.” The authors of the document accuse the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church MP of “deviations from the purity of Orthodox doctrine.” Here is the text of the appeal in full: “We, clergy, monastics, laity of the Anadyr-Chukchi diocese, led by our archpastor and father,

On February 22, Interfax received the text of a statement by Mufti Nafigulla Ashirov, co-chairman of the RMC, in which he apologized for his statements about the teaching of the military-industrial complex at the school at the Russian embassy in Cuba, which caused a storm of indignation among the Orthodox.

On February 22, Mufti of Chechnya Sultan Mirzaev told an Interfax correspondent that the republic's Muslim clergy were concerned about the large number of fatal accidents and were ready to help the traffic police in the fight against traffic violations.

On February 21, 2007, the presentation of the youth wing of the party "Fair Russia" by Sergei Mironov (formed, we recall, as a result of the merger of the party of Life of S. Mironov, "Motherland" of Alexander Babakov and the Party of Pensioners) took place. The new movement - "Victory" combines several youth organizations and uses the ideas of the German National Socialists (fascists).