On April 2, 2007, the topic of the next issue of The New Times magazine was the problem of the growing activity and influence of neo-Nazis in modern Russia. In the introductory part "Business Project: National Socialism" Yevgenia Albats draws the attention of readers to the fact that the growing manifestations of radical nationalism are by no means a Russian phenomenon, but a global one. However, different countries have different attitudes towards it.

In Irkutsk, the police prevented a sanctioned NBP picket. All those who had gathered were registered by police officers, and two were detained and taken to the Oktyabrsky district police department. The detention was motivated by the use of extremist symbols (the picketers were holding NBP flags, imperial black-yellow-white and the slogan "Nation and Freedom". No formal charges were brought against the detainees. Sources Police dispersed NBP picket in Irkutsk // Babr.ru. 2007. April 5.

March 31, 2007 in Yaroslavl at the football match "Shinnik" (Yaroslavl) - "Siberia" (Novosibirsk) there was an incident related to the policemen's attempt to stop the neo-Nazi provocation of the fans. During the match, a home-made flag with a Celtic cross image was raised in the stands in the crowd of fans, quite rightly attributed by the police guarding the match as a neo-Nazi symbol.

The president of the Voronezh Center for Evangelical Christians and the pastor of the Church of God's Glory (part of the United Church of the Pentecostal Church), a member of the Interfaith Council of the Voronezh Region, Alexei Shipovsky, in an interview with the press service of the Slavic Legal Center, said that local vandals chose objects belonging to Pentecostals as a target for attacks .

On April 5, 2007, the Kurchatov District Court of Chelyabinsk delivered a verdict in the case of Vladimir Sutormin, co-chairman of the Chelyabinsk regional branch of the right-wing radical organization National Powerful Way of Russia (NDPR). Based on the totality of crimes, the court sentenced V.

An Orthodox convent in the village of Razdolnoye (Primorsky Territory), which has existed for ten years, was sold by the district municipality to an entrepreneur “for bricks,” Novye Izvestiya reports . The monastery was founded in the 1990s. on the territory of the military camp by agreement between the Vladivostok diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, the army leadership and local authorities. Monastic cells were arranged right in the former barracks, built before the revolution.

On April 5, the European Court of Human Rights issued a communiqué announcing the ruling on the lawsuit filed by the Church of Scientology in Moscow against Russia. "The Court unanimously found a violation of Article 11 (freedom of assembly and association) and Article 9 (freedom of thought, conscience and religion) of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms," the document says.

On January 31, 2007, the Federal Arbitration Court of the Moscow District considered the cassation appeal of Rosokhrankultura against the decision of the Moscow Arbitration Court, which, on October 20, 2006, invalidated the warning of Rosokhrankultura issued to the Krasnoyarsk TV channel "TVK-6 Kanal" on February 26, 2006 in connection with the show in November 2005 of the program "Someone's Faith" (this program caused outrage among the pastors of evangelical churches in Krasnoyarsk).

On March 30, 2007, the body of a citizen of the Kyrgyz Republic A.A. Karimov, born in 1950, was found in St. Petersburg. The robbery of the murdered person and versions of the motive for the murder are not reported. The investigation is being conducted by the prosecutor's office of the Krasnoselsky district of St. Petersburg. This murder became known on February 1, 2008 from the appeal of the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Kyrgyzstan to the Russian Federation R.

on the official website of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation.

On the night of March 30-31, 2007 in Voronezh, a swastika was drawn by unknown people on the information board of the Evangelical Christian community (Pentecostals). The shield is located near the Pentecostal prayer house, under which the community rents the local House of Culture. See "Religion in a Secular Society" for details .

On April 4, 2007, Vladimir Lukin, Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, published the next annual report on his activities to protect human rights in various fields in 2006. A fragment of the report devoted to the problems of interethnic relations, xenophobia and nationalism is posted on our website in the "Documents of state bodies" section.

In Rybinsk, a criminal case against journalist Andrei Novikov, accused under Part 1 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Public calls for the implementation of extremist activities"). According to available information, the prosecutor's office saw calls for extremist activity in texts that were not previously published, but sent by e-mail to several editorial offices, as well as seized from the defendant's personal computer.

On March 27, a nazi gang attacked a group of skaters in Izhevsk (Udmurtia). Stanislav Korepanov, 17, was severely beaten and hospitalised in the attack and, though operated on, died four days later. As many as 400 young people attended a memorial meeting, on 3 April, at the location of the attack on him which had taken place late in the evening in the city centre, only a hundred meters from the palace of the President of Udmurtia.

At the end of January 2007, the Syktyvkar City Court sentenced 20-year-old Aleksey Kozhemyakin to 7 years in prison for attacking an Azerbaijani citizen in August 2005. On the basis of all the crimes committed, the court sentenced him to 8 years in a penal colony. In April 2007, the verdict entered into force. Sources Under the influence of beer, a skinhead woke up in a young man // Usinsk INFO. 2007. April 5.