Sergiy Taratukhin, a former priest of the Chita and Trans-Baikal diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, who was defrocked in the spring of 2006 for speaking publicly in support of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was again accepted into the bosom of the Russian Orthodox Church, but now as a layman. The rite of joining an apostate was performed on May 20 at the Kazan Cathedral in Chita.

On May 22, in Tyumen, a justice of the peace passed a sentence on 17-year-old skinhead Nail Samatov, accused of beating a journalist during the anti-fascist action "Food instead of bombs" on March 19, 2007. The court sentenced the defendant to 120 hours of compulsory work in places designated by local authorities. Sources Skinhead who beat journalist sentenced to corrective labor // Grani.ru. 2007. May 22.

We publish our annual analytical report on radical nationalism and public and state counteraction to it. This report has been compiled on the basis of the SOVA center's daily monitoring. The presentation of the report took place in the Independent press-center in Moscow, on March 26, 2007.

The prosecutor's office of Komsomolsk-on-Amur (Khabarovsk Territory) has sent to court a criminal case against a 22-year-old local resident and his teenage accomplice, who belong to the Goth youth subculture. According to investigators, on December 13, 2005, they committed a ritual murder. The victim was another "goth", a teenager they invited to visit.

On the night of May 20-21, 2007, about 40 Armenian graves were desecrated at the cemetery in the village of Krasnokumskoye, Georgievsky district, Stavropol Territory. The monuments were painted with images of swastikas using spray paint. On the fact of vandalism, a criminal case was initiated under Art. 244 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (desecration of the bodies of the dead and their burial places).

The prosecutor's office of the Stavropol Territory initiated a criminal case under paragraph "b" part 2 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity by a person using his official position) in relation to the head of one of the district departments of internal affairs.

On May 21, 2007, at about 11:00 pm, the Koptevsky Court of Moscow ruled on the case of banning the books of the Turkish theologian Said Nursi. It should be reminded that the process, which began on September 7, 2006, was held behind closed doors. Representatives of the Islamic community of Russia and human rights activists have repeatedly expressed concern about the course of the trial, but the court eventually took the side of the prosecution and recognized the Russian translations of S.

On May 22, 2007 in Ryazan a group of 7-8 young people for no apparent reason attacked 2 brothers of mestizo boys, members of the Semitsvetik foundation for helping children from single-parent families. The beating was accompanied by cries of "Sieg Heil!". The older brother lost consciousness after being hit on the head with a bottle, a “rose” from a bottle was stuck in his back. The beating stopped when a woman passing by started screaming. The attackers fled the scene.

Late in the evening of May 21, 2007, the Koptevsky Court of Moscow, presided over by Judge S.V. Mityushov recognized Russian translations of fourteen books by Said Nursi, a well-known Turkish theologian and philosopher, as extremist materials. The trial, which began on September 7, 2006, was held behind closed doors, and the defendant's lawyers (Nuru Badi Cultural and Educational Foundation, publisher of S.

The FSB states that those detained on May 16 on suspicion of preparing an assassination attempt on St. Petersburg Governor Valentina Matviyenko consider themselves supporters of the Hizb ut-Tahrir organization. This was reported by the portal "Interfax-religion" . FSB director Nikolai Patrushev Region said in an interview with Izvestia: “I can confirm that the Federal Security Service received operational information about the preparation of an assassination attempt on the governor of St.

May 22 Portal-Credo.ru published an open letter from the artists of Sergiev Posad, members of the local branch of the Union of Artists of Russia. The authors of the document accuse the ROC of trying to take away from them the premises in the building of the former religious school, which are currently occupied by workshops. Here is the text of the letter in full: "Fellow citizens!

May 15 in Nizhny Novgorod, members of the regional youth movement "Region 52" held under the slogan "Caution - a sect!" a protest action against the social media project "Feel the Power of Change", implemented in various cities of Russia by the Commonwealth of Christian Churches (Pentecostals, Baptists, Seventh Day Adventists, etc.). The organizers of the action collected more than 100 signatures in an hour under an appeal to the governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region.

The Leninsky District Court of Ulyanovsk passed a sentence under paragraph "a" part 2 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting national and religious hatred with the use of violence or the threat of its use) in the case of 18-year-old student of the Ulyanovsk State Technical University Dmitry Levanov. D. Levanov was sentenced to 2 years of suspended liberty for two attacks on the building of the Jewish community center at the end of December 2006.