On July 5, 2007, the City Court of St. Petersburg confirmed the decision of the Rosokhrankultura department to issue a warning about the inadmissibility of propaganda and public demonstration of Nazi paraphernalia through the media to the Petersburg Peak Chas newspaper for publishing in February 2006 a cartoon depicting a swastika. Recall that the Rosokhrankultura warning was issued to the publication in April 2006.

The story of the criminal case on the publication of the SOVA Center was continued. On July 6, in the middle of the day, Alexander Verkhovsky was invited by Rusnak D.N., an employee of the Prosecutor's Office of the Central Administrative District of Moscow. As it became clear from the conversation in the prosecutor's office of the Central Administrative District, the latter is not conducting an investigation, but a regular prosecutor's check on the application of deputy Andrei Savelyev.

On July 5, 2007, the Moscow authorities banned a rally of right-wing organizations - the National Socialist Society (NSO) and the Rus MANPADS (the party for the defense of the Russian constitution). Rally "For the glory of Russian weapons!" was supposed to take place at the All-Russian Exhibition Center, and was previously agreed by the organizers with the prefecture of the North-Eastern District.

On July 5, the Central House of Journalists in Moscow hosted a presentation of the second - supplemented - edition of the book by ethnologist Vera Malkova "Incitement of interethnic hatred is not allowed. A book about ethnic journalism." "Numerous scientific studies record the significant role of the media not only in covering ethnic aspects of life, but also in regulating interethnic relations themselves.

On July 2, 2007, the SOVA Center organized a round table of human rights activists and lawyers interested in the topic of hate crimes. The main subject was the discussion of the relationship between the Russian concept of crimes motivated by hatred (ethnic, religious, etc.) and the concept of hate crime, which is dominant in the West, based rather than on the fact that the offender chooses the victim on the basis of his real or alleged affiliation to some group (ethnic, religious, etc.).

On July 5, 2007, the prosecutor's office of the Leninsky district of Tyumen initiated a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting national hatred) on the fact of distribution of extremist leaflets in the city. According to the press service of the prosecutor's office of the Tyumen region, on the walls of a residential building, a kindergarten building and a stationary police post on the street.

On July 6, the State Duma adopted in the third reading a bill initiated by a group of deputies in February 2007, which provides for significant amendments to anti-extremist legislation. See our commentary on the bill here . Sources The State Duma adopted a law strengthening the fight against extremism // RIA News. 2007. July 6

In the summer of 2007, the Franco-Russian Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences published the collection "Russian Nationalism in the Political Space". The collection includes articles written on the basis of reports presented by researchers from France, Germany, Great Britain and Russia at two international conferences organized by the Center in February 2005: " Russian nationalist themes and elections.

On July 5, 2007, State Duma deputy from the Rodina party Andrei Savelyev, known for his far-right views, stated that on June 15, 2007, based on one of his appeals, the inquiry department of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Central Administrative District of Moscow opened a criminal case on the fact of public libel spread by the Center " SOVA" in relation to the deputy and secretary of the Central Council of the Great Russia party Sergei Pykhtin.

On July 6, 2007, at its last meeting before the holidays, the State Duma adopted in the third reading amendments to the anti-extremist legislation, which we have already commented on in detail. The text of the bill for the third reading changed only in some technical details. Without repeating my own comments, it can be summarized as follows.