The Moscow and St. Petersburg Falun Dafa Spiritual and Physical Cultivation Centers called on "all people of conscience to take part in the urgent rescue of Professor Gao Chunman," a 70-year-old Chinese citizen who practices Falun Gong, who was expelled from Russia on May 13 (he was previously denied permission to granting political asylum). According to a joint press release from both Falun Dafa centers, "On May 13 at around 11:30 am, 6-7 employees of the Federal Migration Service of St.

A Public Council has been created under the FSB, which includes 15 people - representatives of public and scientific organizations, veterans of the special services, and also - as it was reported from the very beginning, but without specifying specific names - religious figures.

On May 11, 2007, Mikhail Grishankov, First Deputy Head of the State Duma Committee on Security, proposed giving a protocol order to the Duma Committee on Information Policy to consider the circumstances of the publication in the May issue of Esquire magazine of a photograph of an OMON officer who participated in the dispersal of the St. Petersburg "March of Dissent" in a helmet depicting two vertical lightning bolts - symbol of the SS troops.

On May 12, 2007, the second congress of the National Bolshevik Front was held in Moscow (the first, we recall, was held on August 25, 2006).

On May 14, the Khoroshevsky Court of Moscow satisfied the claim of the Moscow Helsinki Group against "sectarian" Alexander Dvorkin. The reason for the appeal of the MHG to the court was the words of A. Dvorkin, said by him on the air of Dmitry Kiselev's program "National Interest" on September 30, 2006: "... well, I'm not talking about the Helsinki Group, which constantly supports all sects and is on the salary of Scientology..." The defendant himself did not appear in court.

On May 14, 2007, in the case of the murder of a citizen of Kyrgyzstan Aizhigit Tashtanbekov, the Mytishchi city prosecutor's office charged 3 minors. Recall that the criminal case was initiated on April 15, 2007. On April 20, 2007, were detained three teenagers aged 16 to 17 on suspicion of committing a crime. They were charged under paragraphs.

In Bashkiria, the Foundation for Support of Peacekeeping Programs of the President of the Russian Federation proposed to rewrite Article 14 of the constitution, which proclaims Russia a secular state, and include in it a provision that Orthodoxy, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism are the state religions of the country. According to Blagovest-info , "the chairman of the Fund, Kh.

At the end of April 2007, photographer, printing specialist Oleg Kabatov published in the Russian version of Esquire magazine a photo of an OMON policeman in a helmet with the symbols of the SS troops. The picture, which had previously appeared on the Internet, was taken on March 3, 2007, during the dispersal of the "March of Dissent" by riot police in St. Petersburg. Judging by the stripes on the sleeves, the riot policeman is not from St. Petersburg.

On March 11, 2007, Deputy Prosecutor of the Republic of Komi Nikolai Basmanov announced at a press conference that since the beginning of 2007, 104 violations of the law on extremism had been detected on the territory of Komi. Based on the results of inspections, 6 administrative and 17 criminal cases were opened, 6 were considered with convictions. It should be noted that it is not entirely clear in what cases the verdicts were handed down.

On May 12, 2007, a 6th-year student of the biological faculty of St. Petersburg State University, a teacher at a Jewish gymnasium, Dmitry Nikulinsky, was killed in St. Petersburg. The body of the deceased was found by his father in the entrance of his own house in the Kalininsky district. On the body of the deceased, experts counted about 20 stab wounds. None of the items were stolen. According to the investigation, D.

On May 8, the Federal Arbitration Court of the Moscow District annulled the decision of the 9th Arbitration Court of Moscow, which in March 2007 satisfied the claim of residents of the Babushkinsky microdistrict who opposed the construction of the Russian-American Christian Institute. "For us, this situation was completely unexpected, " Vladimir Listopad, a representative of the initiative group, told Interfax.

On May 14, several participants in an unauthorized rally in support of Falun Gong were detained in Nizhny Novgorod. reports with reference to the regional police department As Interfax-Religion , "at about 16:00 Moscow time in Sormovsky Park, eight Nizhny Novgorod residents, three men and five women, tried to hold a rally in support of the 'method of spiritual and physical improvement', and also distributed the newspaper 'Velikaya era and Falun Dafa in the world'.