On July 6, 2007, the Central Election Commission approved a new form of a model media agreement with political parties. The form is recommended to editorial offices for use during election campaigns when publishing campaign materials. According to one of the clauses of the new form of the agreement, the media may refuse to publish campaign material if the editorial board considers it extremist. For more details, see the section "Illegal anti-extremism" . Sources Kornya A.

On July 9, 2007, the criminal case of the second accused participant in the mass brawl in Stavropol was submitted to court. Non-working Zaurbek Akhmatov is charged under Part 1 of Art. 318 (use of violence against a representative of the authorities, not dangerous to life and health) and under Part 2 of Art. 213 (hooliganism committed by a group of persons by prior agreement) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

On June 28, 2007, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation considered the cassation appeal and upheld the verdict against a group of skinheads convicted in Yekaterinburg for murder motivated by ethnic hatred. Recall that in February 2007, the Sverdlovsk Regional Court for the murder of 21-year-old Andrey Dzyuba four Yekaterinburg residents (Artem Gattarov, Davyd Dushkin, Alexei Vlasov and Nikolai Golubnichim) were sentenced under paragraphs "g, l" part 2 of Art.

was detained in Orenburg - 27-year-old engineer Roman Yanin, whom the investigation considers the leader of a skinhead group. In early July, a fifth suspect in the murder of an Uzbek citizen During a search in the detainee's apartment, an explosive device with a capacity of 200 grams of TNT was seized, as well as "objects of fascist symbols" and a video recording of the murder of a citizen of Uzbekistan. Operatives believe that R.

On July 10, 2007, in Izhevsk (Udmurtia), the case of the murder of skater Stanislav Korepanov was brought to court. According to Korepanov family lawyer Ramil Akhmetgaliev, one of the 2 defendants in the case, Andrey Fazleev, is a member of a youth extremist group led by an officer of the Russian Defense Ministry. The document with this information, signed by the prosecutor of the republic, according to the lawyer, is at his disposal.

On July 4, 2007, the anti-fascist Internet portal "Antifa.ru" sent a letter to the British provider, which had provided hosting for the neo-Nazi site "Format18" some time ago, with a request to close it down. The site was closed, but a few days later it resumed its work on the hosting of another Russian provider. After that, the anti-fascists sent a second letter - to the administration of Russian hosting.

On July 6, 2007, the Central Election Commission approved at its meeting a standard form that it recommends that the media use to conclude agreements with political parties during election campaigns. There is a clause in the agreement according to which the editorial office undertakes, without waiting for a court decision, to refuse to publish materials containing extremist appeals.

In November 2006, the Magadan prosecutor's office initiated a criminal case under paragraph "c" of Part 2 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (actions aimed at inciting ethnic hatred or enmity committed by an organized group) against the head of the local branch of the RNE Alexei Shcherbakov. The case is pending in court. This was reported in the prosecutor's office of the region. Unfortunately, the reason for the initiation of the case is unknown to us.