On April 3, 2007, Novye Izvestiya published an article by Said Bitsoev entitled "Primitive Consciousness" devoted to the controversy surrounding the draft law "banning the mention of nationality" submitted to the State Duma. Emphasizing that censorship is unacceptable, S.

On April 3, 2007, a rally was held in Izhevsk at the scene of the murder of a 17-year-old teenager. Almost 400 young people gathered to honor the memory of the deceased. Immediately after the rally, a press conference was held by the First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Udmurt Republic - the head of the criminal police, police colonel Rinat Saitgareev.

on suspicion of producing and distributing leaflets inciting ethnic hatred. In early April 2007 , two vocational school students and one high school student were detained Their processors and printer were confiscated, which, according to the investigation, could have been used to produce leaflets.

On April 2, 2007, the head of the Moscow City Internal Affairs Directorate, Vladimir Pronin, at a joint meeting of the heads of the city’s law enforcement agencies and the Presidium of the Interethnic Advisory Council (IAC) under the City Government, said that he had prohibited his subordinates from reporting information about the nationality of criminals and suspects.

In early April 2007, leaflets inciting ethnic hatred were found on a telephone pole in the village of Mikhailovka, Limansky District, Astrakhan Region. "These leaflets depicted a man with a bright oriental appearance, depicting an obscene gesture with his hands ," the press service of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Astrakhan region reports. The leaflets also published a poem containing threats of "occupation" of the region, as well as the words: "cut out the local population" .

On March 27, 2007, the Public Collegium for Press Complaints received a response from Vladimir Sungorkin, editor-in-chief of Komsomolskaya Pravda, to appeals from the Union of Journalists of Kalmykia and the Buddhist community "Mindrolling" regarding Yu. Russia. My rosary whistled there" dated January 16, 2007. V. Sungorkin believes that these appeals are nothing more than the "opinion" of readers.

In Izhevsk, skinheads beat a 14-year-old girl who died from her injuries on April 2, 2007. According to unconfirmed information, the girl also participated in a fight that took place on March 27, at the same time was beaten to death. Stanislav Korepanov However, there is no official information about the death of a 14-year-old girl yet.

On March 31, 2007, in Moscow, in the area of ​​the Park Kultury metro station, skinheads beat up Other Russia activists who were pasting campaign stickers with an invitation to the "March of Dissent" on the "background of the imperial flag" . Right-wing radicals were outraged by the fact that the Other Russia coalition (which includes the NBP) used the flag, "which has always been used by nationalists .

Representatives of the Vatican, Archbishop Antonio Mennini and Monseigneur Ante Jozich, arrived in Irkutsk to get acquainted with the life of the Catholic community. It is expected that they will hold a meeting with members of the regional administration, where they will discuss the issue of a possible transfer of the building of the church, now occupied by a branch of the regional philharmonic society, to the Catholic diocese.

April 3 in Petrozavodsk began an interregional seminar "Interaction between authorities, law enforcement agencies, national and religious associations, on the harmonization of national and confessional relations and the prevention of interethnic and interreligious conflicts." The seminar is held by the Center for Interethnic Cooperation with the support of the Ministry of the Republic of Karelia for National Policy and Relations with Religious Associations in Petrozavodsk.

On April 2, the Ministry of Justice submitted for government approval amendments to Decree No. 212, which regulates the reporting procedure for non-profit organizations (NPOs). Recall that a number of provisions of the law on non-governmental organizations, in particular, the reporting procedure, provoked protests from religious organizations.