Publications are listed in reverse chronological order: There is no need to put pressure on the authorities . Commentary by A. Verkhovsky on the Founding Congress of the new National Human Rights Union “Man and the Law” // Daily Journal. 2007. December 14. In principle, for the church, from its point of view, there is nothing wrong with participating in this.

In the Novgorod region, the Okulovsky court is considering a criminal case against a 16-year-old Roma teenager accused of murdering a 72-year-old man. Court hearings began on May 23, 2007, Judge Sergei Trofimov is conducting the trial. The murder took place on the night of February 1, 2007.

On May 16, 2007, the criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation in relation to the leader of the Movement Against Illegal Immigration (DPNI) Alexander Belov (Potkin), due to the fact that experts from the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences did not find signs of inciting national hatred in his statements. Recall that the case was initiated by the prosecutor's office of Karelia. A.

began in the city court of St. Petersburg . On May 23, 2007, the first hearing in the case of the murder of anti-fascist student Timur Kacharava There are 7 defendants in the case (of which 3 are minors, at the time of the crime 6 were not yet 16 years old).

The trial of a high profile case started in St.Petersburg on 23 May with seven young men, three of them minors, accused of attacking 20-year-old anti-fascist musician Timur Kacharava, and his friend Maxim Zgibai on 13 November 2005. A group of ten young people were involved in the murder of Kacharava who was stabbed five times in the neck and died shortly afterwards. Zgibai was also stabbed and seriously wounded.

Between May 20 and 22, vandals damaged 7 crosses and 13 tombstones at the cemetery in the city of Semyonov, Nizhny Novgorod Region. The regional police department reported that "the monuments belong to the deceased with Russian surnames and different years of birth." The issue of initiating a criminal case is being considered. Sources In the Nizhny Novgorod region, vandals damaged 20 monuments and crosses at the cemetery // Interfax-religion. 2007. May 23.

The administration of St. Petersburg did not allow the participants of the religious procession dedicated to the birthday of Nicholas II to cross Nevsky Prospekt. The organizers were going to hold a procession from the Savior on Blood to the Kazan Cathedral, but the city authorities decided that crossing the avenue by a large group of people would interfere with traffic.

On May 23, 2007, the Moscow City Court upheld on the verdict Boris Stomakhin, editor-in-chief of the Radical Politics publication, who was convicted under Part 1 of Art. 282 ("inciting religious hatred using the media"), Part 2 of Art. 280 (“public calls for extremist activity, committed with the use of the media”) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation to 5 years in prison in a penal colony.

In the second half of May, in the town of Klintsy, Bryansk region, teenagers toppled 43 monuments at a Jewish cemetery. Seven suspects were detained - high school students. According to one of the teenagers, they passed by the cemetery by chance, and the tombstones began to fall out of boredom. A criminal case was initiated under Part 1 of Art. 244 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (desecration of the bodies of the dead and their burial places).

On May 17, the Government of St. Petersburg approved the Regulations on the Procedure for Considering Appeals from Religious Organizations for the Transfer of Religious Property, which is State Property of the City. On the same day, a commission was formed to address these issues. It is assumed that land plots will be transferred to the ownership of religious organizations free of charge, and other property - for free use.

The Communications Service of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate issued a statement in connection with plans to hold gay parades. The text says, in part: and St.

On April 18, O. Trubetskikh, the head of the council of the Moscow district of Konkovo, sent a letter to the heads of a number of enterprises with a request "to provide charitable assistance for the beautification of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in the amount of 20,000 rubles." At the same time, O. Trubetskoy referred to the order of the prefect of the South-Western Administrative District of Moscow A. Chelyshev.

The central office of the Federal Service for Supervision of Compliance with Legislation in the Sphere of Mass Communications and the Protection of Cultural Heritage (Rosokhrakultura) issued warnings to the editorial offices of two newspapers for "using the media to carry out extremist activities". - To the newspaper "Duel" (Moscow) for the publication of A. Dubrov's article "The Death of Russia!" in N 27 (475) on July 4, 2006 and to the newspaper Russkaya Pravda (Moscow) for publishing M.