On June 4, 2007, the State Duma adopted in the second reading the bill "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation in Connection with the Improvement of State Administration in the Field of Counteracting Extremism", aimed at yet another tightening of punishment for extremist activity, initiated by a group of deputies in February 2007. A detailed analysis of the text of the draft law for the second reading was published on our website on June 28, 2007.

On July 3, 2007 in Moscow, the Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow issued an arrest warrant for the leader of the neo-Nazi organization "Format-18" Maxim Martsinkevich (nicknamed "Tesak"). M. Martsinkevich was detained in his apartment in a building on Rublevsky Highway on charges under Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“inciting national hatred”).

On June 10, 2007, at the Koltsovo airport in Ekaterinburg, a passenger on one of the flights saw a ring with a swastika on an employee marking passengers in front of the screening area. When asked about the "weird accessory", the airport worker replied that it was a "normal ring". On June 21, 2007, a passenger sent a letter to the director of the airport with an appeal to " "warn a person against wearing such symbols at work .