The authorities of the Frunze region decided to destroy the pagan temple located on the territory of the region. The place occupied by it is intended for the placement of sports facilities of urban and regional significance. Earlier, on February 14, the interregional public organization (IPO) "Slavs" appealed to the district administration with a request to give the temple the status of a protected land - the People's Slavic Reserve.

On April 12, 2007, an anti-fascist action took place in Moscow near the stele on Poklonnaya Hill. 14 people paid tribute to the memory of anti-fascists killed by neo-Nazis Timur Kacharava (November 13, 2005, St. Petersburg) and Alexander Ryukhin (April 16, 2006, Moscow) and skater Stanislav Korepanov (March 27, 2007, Izhevsk). The event passed quietly - without posters and speeches. The participants lit candles, pasted photographs of the dead to the monument, laid flowers.

In the first quarter of 2007, the Upper Volga Territorial Administration of the Federal Service for Supervision of Compliance with Legislation in the Sphere of Mass Communications and the Protection of Cultural Heritage (Rosokhrakultura) issued a warning "for using the media to carry out extremist activities" to the newspaper "Echo of the Week -33" for publishing an article " Lord of the Earth" September 26, 2006 It should be reminded that a statement in September 2006 about the need to check

April 16 at the cemetery in the village. Polyany of the Ryazan region, about 30 graves were desecrated. A resident of this village called the police and said that teenagers were breaking crosses and monuments. The police officers who arrived at the scene found broken monuments, inverted crosses and photographs of the dead painted over with black paint. On April 17, the perpetrators were identified: they are three local girls. The eldest of them is 11 years old, the rest are 10.

On April 17, 2007, Nezavisimaya Gazeta published an article by Emil Pain, head of a sector at the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, "Through the Looking Glass: Russian Nationalism and Civil Society," in which the author asks whether Russian ultra-rightists can be considered part of civil society and to what extent, and whether transformation of ethno-nationalism into civil-political nationalism.

On the evening of April 16, 2007, in Yekaterinburg, on a tram running along route 25, a man of "Caucasian appearance" was attacked. Three young people sprayed him in the face with a gas spray, after which they ran out of the tram at the Iset Hotel stop. According to eyewitnesses, the attackers looked like skinheads. Sources A Caucasian was attacked in tram number 25 // just media. 2007. April 17.

On April 16, 2007, in Moscow, in the southwestern administrative district, an attack was made on the general director of the Gormet company, 46-year-old Karen Abrahamyan, a native of Armenia. Around 22 o'clock. On Kedrov Street, near house 22, he was attacked by two young men and started beating him, then one of them stabbed him about 20 times. The attackers shouted nationalist slogans. K. Abrahamyan was discovered by neighbors who called the police and an ambulance.

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On April 16, 2007, a native of Tajikistan was killed in Moscow. The body of 26-year-old janitor Khamid Sadykov with multiple stab wounds (about 35) was found at 19:00. at the entrance of the house along Metallurgov Street in the east of the capital (Perovo). According to law enforcement agencies, "in the course of the operational-search activities, it was established that the stab wounds were inflicted by two unknown persons .

The attackers sprayed pepper spray in front of the entrance to the chapel located at the Norilsk bus station. Believers gathered to meet the Holy Fire brought from Jerusalem. The service had to be interrupted in order to ventilate the room. Video cameras were working in the bus station, and the moment of spraying the gas was recorded. The police are investigating. Sources Chapel desecrated in Norilsk // Regions.ru. 2007. April 17.

In the village of Razdolnoye, Primorsky Krai, about a hundred people held a picket against the sale of the Kazan Convent to a private individual. The picketers went to the walls of the monastery with posters: "Return the convent!", "Orthodox, we will defend our faith", "Do not touch the convent!" The protesters began collecting signatures in support of the transfer of the building to the monastery. The Vladivostok diocese reported that the building had never belonged to a church.