On March 12, 2007, a discussion on the topic "Hate speech in the federal and regional media" was held in St. Petersburg, organized by the Regional Press Institute (director - Anna Sharogradskaya). Moscow experts Anna Sevortyan (Center for the Development of Democracy and Human Rights), Galina Kozhevnikova (Center SOVA), Mikhail Melnikov (Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations) and representatives of the expert communities of St.

In another Russian region, the traffic police turned to the priests of the Russian Orthodox Church with a request for help in the prevention of road accidents. Now, in the Bryansk region, at the request of the traffic police, priests will read sermons to parishioners on the need to follow the rules of the road.

In Syktyvkar, on the eve of the elections on March 11, employees of the Russian FSB Directorate for the Komi Republic prevented the spread of extremist literature. As part of a new investigation into the case of the leader of the Union of National Revival (SNV) Yuri Ekishev, who was convicted in November 2006 under Part 1 of Art.

On March 13, 2007, it became known that on February 21, 2007, Gennady Zyuganov sent an appeal to the prosecutor of St. Petersburg, Sergei Zaitsev, with a request to initiate a criminal case against the first secretary of the organization Communists of St. Petersburg, Sergei Malinkovich.

Late in the evening on March 14, 2007, a 25-year-old Vietnamese citizen, Phan Bau Thuan, was attacked in Lipetsk. Near the bus station, three young men approached him and shouted "Heil, Hitler!" and "Glory to Russia" began to beat the foreigner. The victim was thrown to the ground and kicked in the head. Witnesses of the incident called an ambulance and the police, the attackers fled. The victim was taken to the medical unit "LipetskMed" with a severe concussion.

On March 14, an investigator from the St. Petersburg prosecutor's office investigating a criminal case of an attack in Pushkin by a group of teenagers on two citizens of Uzbekistan, as a result of which one of them was killed, refused the representative of the victim, Pavel Kalandarov, to additionally qualify the prosecution under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred). Recall that seven people were arrested in the case.

The Department of the Prosecutor General's Office in the Volga Federal District has completed the investigation of a criminal case against four residents of Tatarstan Vilsur Khairullin, Rauf Zinnurov, Said-Mokhmad Dangaev and Lema Atuev.

On March 15, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation dismissed a private lawsuit filed by the Memorial company to restore the missed procedural deadline for appealing the decision to recognize 15 organizations as terrorist (recall that the decision was made by the Supreme Court on February 14, 2003, and for a long time its text was not available to the general public). When the list of organizations was officially published in July 2006, two more organizations were added to the 15. - Ed. ).

In Yekaterinburg, on one of the parking columns of the MEGA Mall shopping center, located on the outskirts of the city, a poster "Rules of the road and parking" appeared, one of the points of which contains discriminatory statements against Roma.

On March 8, 2007, before a concert of emo-punk bands in the "PORT" club in St. Petersburg, an emo fan was beaten by skinheads. The victim was taken to the hospital with a fractured skull and concussion. According to a friend of the victim, who reported this on the LiveJournal of the Internet, this is already the third case of an attack by skinheads on emo fans known to him. In the previous ones, girls were also affected. in Moscow .

On March 14, the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Commission on the Transfer of Religious Property to Religious Organizations recommended that the Ministry of State Property and Land Resources of the Nizhny Novgorod Region transfer four buildings to the local diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church for free use.