On July 30, 2007, during a business trip of the film crew of the Vesti-Irkutsk program to the village of Kutulik, Angarsk region, the program correspondent Anna Gritsevich was attacked by a police officer from Angarsk. The police major was a guest of the same hotel where the journalists were staying. According to the victim, he did not like her last name. Pulling out a gun, he put it to the girl's head, threatening to kill her. The officer accompanied his actions with anti-Semitic statements.

On August 1, 2007, the head of the Central Election Commission (CEC) of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Churov, announced the start of media monitoring before the December elections to the State Duma, which is designed to promptly identify cases of extremism, illegal agitation and "black PR". The center for training in electoral technologies under the Central Election Commission will be responsible for the study. According to V.

On July 18, 2007, the Krasnoglinsky District Court of Samara found guilty of inciting ethnic hatred (Part 1, Article 282) of two residents of the village. Manager Andrey Monakhov and Sergey Kolychenkov (both born in 1987). It should be reminded that young people were detained on May 10, 2007 with nationalist leaflets, which they posted on lampposts, public transport stops, walls and windows of houses.

At the end of July 2007, the police department at the Volzhsky Automobile Plant began an investigation into the distribution of leaflets calling for a strike at the enterprise (the strike began on August 1, the workers demand higher wages). The head of the department, Sergei Kurshel, told Kommersant that the leaflets contain "extremist appeals" and fall under Art. 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Public calls for the implementation of extremist activities").

The Kuntsevo Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office of Moscow opened a criminal case under Art. 282 (inciting national hatred) on the fact of publications on the Ingushetia.Ru Internet portal. According to "Moskovsky Komsomolets", the reason for initiating a criminal case was the repeated appeals of representatives of North Ossetia, outraged by the anti-Ossetian articles of the portal.

On July 22, ten academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in particular Vitaly Ginzburg and Zhores Alferov, addressed President Putin with an open letter expressing concern about the “increasing clericalization of Russian society” and “the active penetration of the church into all spheres of public life.” First of all, the indignation of scientists was caused by two provisions of the resolution “On the development of the domestic system of religious education and science” adopted in March

The Church of Evangelical Christians "Grace of Christ" from Chekhov near Moscow won a case in the European Court of Human Rights. The believers applied to the ECtHR in early 2003 with a complaint against the decision of the city administration, which prohibited them from holding services in the open air.

On July 31, 2007, after a four-hour deliberation, a jury of the city court of St. Petersburg by eleven votes to one delivered a guilty verdict against all seven accused of attacking Timur Kacharava and Maksim Zgibay in the fall of 2005. For all seven, the motives for this attack were also recognized - hooliganism and hatred on the basis of belonging to a social group.

During the investigation into the murder of an Uzbek worker in February 2007, it became clear that the detainees were involved in another crime. The leader of a group of skinheads detained in connection with the murder of an Uzbek worker in Orenburg in early 2007 admitted during the investigation to the arson of the Tajikistan cafe in April 2006. Then, as a result of the fire, a 16-year-old Tajik teenager died and his 41-year-old father suffered burns.

On the night of July 30-31 in St. Petersburg on the street. Shcherbakov, Yakov Pak, a citizen of Uzbekistan, an ethnic Korean, was killed. His body, with multiple stab wounds, was found in his car around 2 am on 31 July. There are witnesses who saw two young (about twenty) people getting out of the car. It is possible that the attackers were captured by security cameras located at a nearby school.

In early July, on Sakhalin, on suspicion of giving a bribe to an employee of the immigration control department of the regional department of the FMS, members of the religious organization Grace were detained - a US citizen, pastor Pak Hyo Sunn and his translator, a Russian citizen Kim Sun Dya.

On the night of August 1, in Kazan, four graves at the Arsk cemetery and houses on the streets of Karl Marx and Bolshaya Krasnaya (a hostel of Kazan State Technological University named after Tupolev) were painted with swastikas by unknown people. According to the police, the vandals did not choose what to paint on - swastikas were applied to everything that the vandals came across. Eyewitnesses say that there were two vandals - young people 17-19 years old.

On August 1, 2007, an attack on Firuz Sam Zada, a native of Afghanistan, took place in Moscow near Preobrazhenskaya Square. Three young men with fan scarves approached the Afghan and asked for cigarettes. After that, he was beaten, including with a bottle. The attack was accompanied by xenophobic insults. Didn't contact the police. Sources Information provided by the Civic Assistance Committee.