*We are publishing the cassation ruling of the Supreme Court of Russia dated February 20, 2007 in the case of a group of Nazi skinheads near Moscow who were convicted on charges of racist murder and other violent crimes motivated by hatred.

On February 14, the Pension Fund Administration for the Sverdlovsk Region published a list of enterprises that do not pay insurance premiums to the Pension Fund. Three plants of the Sysert district were among them: Sysert Porcelain LLC, Sysert Porcelain Auxiliary Production LLC, and Sysert Primary Porcelain Production LLC. Their total debt since the fourth quarter of 2004 amounted to 3.5 million rubles. The owner of the enterprises is the Yekaterinburg diocese.

On February 12, the Nashi movement held an unsanctioned action in St. Petersburg against the "actual capture" of the city by "sects". The organizer of the action was detained by the police, a protocol on an administrative offense was drawn up against him, the case was referred to the court. On February 26, a hearing of the case was held in the Magistrate's Court of the Admiralteisky District. The Nashi representative pleaded guilty.

On February 12, 2007, in the Vladimir Region, the Prosecutor's Office for Supervision of the Execution of Laws at Special Security Facilities sent a criminal case to the court under Art. 214 (vandalism) and part 1 of Art. 282 (incitement of national and religious hatred) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation against a minor resident of the Sudogodsky district.

Aum Senrikyo and the East Turkestan Liberation Organization are included in the consolidated list of organizations whose activities are prohibited on the territory of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO, of which Russia is a member along with other CIS states). In total, there are 25 extremist and terrorist organizations on this list today.

The prosecutor's office of the Leningradsky district of Kaliningrad sent a lawsuit to the district court of the city to declare illegal the construction of a residential building, which is run by the Catholic parish of the Holy Family. The prosecutor's office also asks to recognize the building under construction as unauthorized construction and to oblige the developer to demolish the object at his own expense.

February 24, 2007 In Moscow, on Privolny proezd street in the Zhulebino microdistrict, an attack was made on a native of Azerbaijan, who was beaten with baseball bats and robbed. According to law enforcement agencies, the attack was accompanied by shouts of "Russia for the Russians . " The victim was taken to the hospital with multiple injuries. Botkin. On February 28, officers of the Maryino police department detained four young people suspected of the attack.

On February 26, Krasnodar Mayor Vladimir Evlanov, in an interview with the Krasnodar+ TV channel, said that the construction of Orthodox churches is important for the city, and the possibility of building mosques and synagogues will be discussed at public hearings. "We have no right to refuse representatives of other confessions, but it is important for the city to build churches first of all," the head of Krasnodar said.

On February 27, a protest rally was held in Moscow against the excavations being carried out around the Al-Aqsa mosque. The action was organized by the Center for Palestinian Culture with the support of the "Collection" Association. Those present demanded that the excavations be stopped, as this could lead not only to the collapse of the building, but also to a "passionate explosion" of the Muslim population.

February 18, 2007 In Orenburg, a group of young people - supporters of the Eurasian Youth Union of Alexander Dugin (ECM) attacked the local office of the Russian Family Planning Association (RAPS). The attackers smashed 10 windows with rebar and bricks and threw several smoke flares into the building, after which they disappeared.

The rector of the Trinity-Sergius Hermitage near St. Petersburg, hegumen Nikolai (Paramonov) sent an appeal to the Public Council under the Governor of St. Petersburg with a request to prevent the construction of a shopping and entertainment complex near the monastery. The City Committee for Urban Planning and Architecture approved a plan for the construction of a complex, including gambling establishments, near the monastery.

The Institute of State-Confessional Relations and Law published the collection "Religious Culture in a Secular School" (editor and compiler L.S. Garmash and I.V. Ponkin). The collection includes materials and documents relating to the legal basis and practice of teaching the fundamentals of religious culture in a secular school. Here is one of the chapters of the publication. **Soloviev A.Yu. Catalog of manuals for the subject area "Orthodox culture".** Explanatory note.

On January 1, 2007, a new edition of the Forest Code of the Russian Federation came into force. Article 47 of the new edition gives religious organizations the right to use forests for religious activities in accordance with Federal Law No. 125-FZ of September 26, 1997 "On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations." State or municipally owned forest plots may be provided to religious organizations for free fixed-term use for religious activities.

On February 28, 2007, at about 3:30 p.m. in Kursk, on the territory of the single-mandate constituency, leaflets of the "National-Sovereign Party of Russia" of an agitational nature were distributed in the premises of the Klyukvinsky boarding school of the Kursk region. According to a linguistic study, "the text of the leaflet of the "National-Sovereign Party of Russia" contains frank slogans that contribute to inciting racial, national, religious and social hatred" .