On the night of May 5-6, 2007, an explosive device went off in a synagogue in Saratov. Fortunately, no one was hurt. The building suffered minor damage. An investigation is underway. The Congress of Jewish Religious Organizations and Associations in Russia (KEROOR) expressed concern about what had happened. Congress does not rule out that the explosion in the synagogue may be related to the May 7 Jewish holiday Lag B'Omer or Victory Day.

On the night of May 5, ten marble tombstones were broken at the cemetery in the village of Rybushka, Saratov Region.

On May 7, 2007 on the portal "REGNUM" was published "Rating: Western phobia; Russian media" - the result of monitoring carried out by the "Research Center of the company E-generator.ru" (authors Konstantin Belousov and Natalia Zelyanskaya).

On May 6, 2007, the founding congress of the Great Russia party took place at the Izmailovo hotel, the creation of which was initiated a month earlier by State Duma deputy from Rodina, known for his ultra-right views, Andrei Savelyev. He was elected chairman of the new party by an overwhelming majority of votes (180 to 3). The secretary of the central council was Sergei Pykhtin (a long-time “comrade-in-arms” of D. Rogozin and A.

*On May 3, 2007, in Berlin, EU and Russia hold the fifth round of their Human Rights Consultations (see press-releases of Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and of the European Union ). The SOVA Center took part in the traditional preliminary meeting of the representatives of Russian and international NGOs and the European officials who participate in the consultations (Russian diplomats, unfortunately, decline participation in these meetings).

On May 5, 2007, in St. Petersburg, near the Staraya Derevnya metro station, a group of skinheads (about 10-15 people), armed with knives, attacked a group of punks, consisting of 3 guys and 2 girls. The girls were hospitalized, they had stab wounds and other bodily injuries. One person was injured by the skinheads. A criminal case has been initiated.

On May 7, 2007, the cassation board of the Novosibirsk Regional Court upheld the verdict of the Berdsk City Court against a group of Berdsk skinheads accused of attacking workers from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Let us recall that the prosecutor's office demanded that the verdict be canceled on January 24, 2007 due to the fact that the court had acquitted the defendants under Art. 282.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("organization of an extremist community").

In Yaroslavl on the street. Freedom at the entrance to the cafe "SovNarPit" there was an announcement " "Estonians and dogs are not allowed to enter . The sign hung for several days and on May 7, 2007 was removed. Visitors to Internet blogs note that similar signs were seen at other establishments in Yaroslavl (Actor Cafe) and Kostroma.

The Kostroma prosecutor's office found no signs of nationalism in the actions of the two young men who beat the imam of the mosque and his wife. This was reported to the prosecutor's office. "This crime was committed by teenagers out of hooligan motives and does not contain actions aimed at inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliating a person's dignity on the grounds of nationality, origin and attitude to religion," the prosecutor's office said in a statement .

On May 6, 2007, in Moscow, residents of the Biryulyovo Zapadnoe district, 18-year-old Alexander Leushkanov, a first-year college student in the service industry, and 19-year-old college student A. Firsov, suspected of murdering two citizens of Tajikistan, were detained in hot pursuit. Both suspects were detained at their apartments. According to them, the reason for the incident was personal hostility with the victims.

In the Volgograd region, employees of the passport and visa department require a teenager who suffered from an attack by an anti-Semitic neighbor to withdraw a statement from the police. The teenager was beaten on the Sulyaevsky farm of the Kumylzhensky district of the Volgograd region at the end of March 2007 and spent 10 days in the surgery department of the Kumylzhensky district hospital. The boy turned to the police with a statement about his inclusion in the victim protection program.

On the night of May 5, 2007, in Moscow, in the vicinity of the Sokolniki metro station, unknown persons beat to death a native of the village of Shalushka, Chegemsky district of Kabardino-Balkaria, 28-year-old Rustem B. The murder took place late in the evening, when a native of Kabardino-Balkaria was returning to his home - to his place of temporary residence in Moscow.

On the night of May 5-6, an explosive device went off in a Saratov synagogue, reports Interfax-religion with reference to the Congress of Jewish Organizations and Associations of Russia (KEROOR). Fortunately, no one was hurt. The building suffered minor damage. An investigation is underway. The KEROOR expressed concern about what had happened. Congress does not rule out that the explosion in the synagogue may be related to the May 7 Jewish holiday Lag B'Omer or Victory Day.

*On May 3, 2007, in Berlin, EU and Russia hold the fifth round of their Human Rights Consultations (see press-releases of Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and of the European Union ). The SOVA Center took part in the traditional preliminary meeting of the representatives of Russian and international NGOs and the European officials who participate in the consultations (Russian diplomats, unfortunately, decline participation in these meetings).

*On May 3, 2007, the fifth round of Russia-EU consultations on human rights took place in Berlin (see press releases from the Russian Foreign Ministry and the European Union ). The SOVA Center took part in the already traditional meeting that the European officials participating in the consultations hold the day before with representatives of Russian and international NGOs (Russian diplomats, unfortunately, refuse to participate in these meetings).