During the annual diocesan meeting of the Barnaul and Altai diocese, data on the teaching of "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture" in the Altai Territory were announced. The number of schools where this subject was introduced does not exceed 10%.

In February 2007, in Krasnoyarsk, a verdict was passed in a criminal case on the beating of an Armenian citizen by skinheads in June 2006. Two defendants in the case were convicted under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred). One of the young people is serving a sentence on probation, while the second has been subjected to compulsory treatment.

On February 6, 2007, the Judicial Collegium for Civil Cases of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation approved the decision of the Krasnodar Regional Court dated October 5, 2006 on the ban for extremist activities of a neo-pagan religious group - the Krasnodar Orthodox Slavic Community "VEK RA" (Vedic Culture of the Russian Aryans) of the Scythian Vesi Rasseniya.

The Voronezh prosecutor's office united two criminal cases - about the desecration of graves at a Jewish cemetery on March 7 and about an act of vandalism at the same cemetery, committed in early 2007 (then swastikas were painted on 4 graves). The prosecutor's office believes that both crimes were committed on the basis of national and religious hatred. The case was initiated under Part 2 of Art.

The Russian Academy of Civil Service under the President of the Russian Federation (RAGS) has entered into a cooperation agreement with the largest Russian associations of Protestants. The signing of the agreement took place after the completion of advanced training courses under the program "State-Confessional Relations" for evangelical ministers.

We are publishing the decision of the Krasnodar Regional Court of October 5, 2006 to ban the neo-pagan community "VEK RA" at the suit of the regional prosecutor's office in accordance with the provisions of the anti-extremist legislation of Russia. The text is not an official publication and is reproduced based on materials from right-wing radical Internet resources. Case No.

March 3, 2007 in Novorossiysk, on the square of the central market during the distribution of a new issue of the right-wing radical newspaper "For Rus!" its editor, Sergei Putintsev, the chairman of the far-right neo-pagan organization Fatherland Society of Russian Culture, was detained. Together with him, 4 more "comrades-in-arms" were detained. Recall that S. Putintsev is being charged in the case of inciting ethnic hatred (part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code).

On March 6, more than 20 tombstones were knocked down at the Jewish cemetery in Voronezh, located in Moldavsky Lane. The prosecutor's office of the Leninsky district of the city opened a criminal case under Article 244 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("desecration of the bodies of the dead and their burial places").

On March 5-7, the XI World Russian People's Council was held in Moscow, dedicated to the theme “Wealth and Poverty: Historical Challenges of Russia.” The cathedral was attended by 1,910 people from Russia and 16 other countries, 1.5 thousand were present at the opening, about 900 took part in the work of the sections. Russian participants came from 70 regions. Politicians, businessmen, cultural figures, and representatives of all “traditional” religious organizations took part in the forum.

Speaking at one of the sections of the World Russian People's Council taking place in Moscow, the head of the "Christian Renaissance" union, Vladimir Osipov, spoke about the teaching of the "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture" in different regions. According to V. Osipov, in the summer of 2006 the "Christian Renaissance" union sent letters to the administrations of all subjects of the Federation with a question about the teaching of the military-industrial complex. Responses came from 41 regions.

According to the all-Russian statistics of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in 2006 about 200 criminal cases were opened under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national, racial, religious hatred). In addition, about 50 criminal cases initiated under Art.

The authorities of Krasnoyarsk and St. Petersburg refused to allow representatives of the Falun Gong movement to hold rallies against the repression of this movement in China. Representatives of "Falun Gong" sent a complaint against the actions of officials to the Human Rights Ombudsman in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Innokenty Zhmakov.

On February 6, the Judicial Collegium for Civil Cases of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation approved the decision of the Krasnodar Regional Court of October 5, 2006 to ban the Krasnodar Orthodox Slavic Community "VEK RA" (Vedic Culture of the Russian Aryans) of the Scythian Vesi Rasseniya for extremist activities. The doctrine of the unregistered pagan community is based on the "Slavonic-Aryan Vedas" containing "racial restrictions". The swastika is used as a symbol.

The prosecutor's office of the Leninsky district of Voronezh initiated a criminal case under Part 2 of Art. 244 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (desecration of the bodies of the dead and their burial places based on national, racial, religious hatred or enmity) in connection with the pogrom at the city's Jewish cemetery. On March 6, 2007, more than 20 tombstones were destroyed by unknown vandals.