On August 29, 2007, in Petrozavodsk, transport police officers, as part of the planned operational-preventive operation “Search,” detained the leader of the Movement against Illegal Immigration (DPNI), Alexander Potkin (Belov), who was heading to Kondopoga. When asked by the police to show his passport, A.

On August 30, the Presnensky Court of Moscow satisfied the claim of the World Russian People's Council against journalist Sergei Bychkov and the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets for the protection of business reputation. The court ordered S. Bychkov to publish a refutation of the information contained in the articles about the ARNS, and to collect 10 thousand rubles from the journalist and the newspaper as compensation for moral damage.

On August 28, 2007, employees of the Center "T" of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Central Federal District (CFD) detained 3 people who staged an anti-Semitic action in the village of Vnukovo in April 2007 during a football match between the Alliance and Maccabi teams.

On August 28, 2007, the prosecutor's office of the city of Neryungri opened a criminal case under Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("incitement of national hatred") on the fact of pasting nationalist leaflets on the doors of entrances. The case was initiated against a non-working 22-year-old native of Neryungri, as well as a 21-year-old native of Ivanovo, an employee of the Yakutugol holding company.

On August 31, 2007, Komsomolskaya Pravda published an article by Nikita Mironov entitled "A migrant is the best groom for a Muscovite? He is gallant, does not drink and plows for three!", Subtitled "Why do residents of the capital increasingly marry visitors." The announcement of the material was even placed on the front page.

The press service of the Russian United Union of Christians of the Evangelical Faith (ROSHVE) released a statement by the head of Russian Pentecostals, Bishop Sergei Ryakhovsky. The head of Russian Pentecostals supported “the idea of ​​introducing in the state system of certification of scientific workers the academic degrees of candidate and doctor of theology.” Let us recall that in March 2007 the Interreligious Council of Russia made such a proposal.

August 5, 2007 in Barnaul at the intersection of st. 28-year-old native of Azerbaijan Elvin Novruzov, who traded vegetables and fruits in Altai, was killed on Molodyozhnaya and Komsomolsky avenue. On the body of the deceased, the forensic physician counted at least eight penetrating stab wounds in the chest area. On August 15, 2007, on suspicion of involvement in the murder of a migrant, police officers detained two residents of the regional center.

On the night of August 29-30, an attack was made on an Orthodox cultural and educational center in the Istra district of the Moscow region. Three young men broke the windows with an iron pipe. They told the employees of the center, who were trying to reason with the hooligans, that they had come from Moscow on purpose to beat the Jehovah's Witnesses. Then the attackers kicked one of the employees of the center, and the building commandant was hit on the head with an iron pipe.

On August 28, 2007, it became known that a 26-year-old skinhead was detained in Yekaterinburg, who had beaten an unfamiliar man "out of national dislike" in July 2006. "In addition to beating, the detainee, whose name is not named in the interests of the investigation, verbally insulted a man who, in his opinion, was not outwardly Slavic," the press service of the Office of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation in the Urals Federal District reported.

At the end of August 2007, the Industrial District Court of Izhevsk, on the application of the prosecutor of the Udmurt Republic, recognized the materials of the newspapers "Division" (No. 1, 2001) and "Izhevskaya Division" (No. 2,3,4,5, 2001) as extremist.

On August 29, 2007, Yuri Levada's analytical center published the results of the sociological survey "Nationalism and Xenophobia" conducted on August 10-13. 1600 Russians participated in the survey. The statistical error of such surveys does not exceed 3%. The survey data is compared with similar data from previous years.

On August 15, 2007, two 17-18-year-old young people, residents of the regional center, were detained in Barnaul, suspected of killing a native of Azerbaijan. According to the detainees, they noticed a lone passer-by and "followed" him for two blocks, "just to kick." During the investigation, the murder weapons were found - two folding knives with locks. The killers threw them in the yards of the nearest houses.

At the end of August 2007, the Kushvinsky City Court of the Sverdlovsk Region delivered a guilty verdict under Part 2 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“incitement of hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity, committed with the use of violence”) to the chairman of the Kushvinsky Charitable Foundation “City without drugs" to Nikolai Lebedev, Evgeny Skoblyakov, Sergei Zakharov, for attacking a native of Central Asia. By a court verdict, convicted E.

of the Raduzhny City Court of the Vladimir Region in the case of xenophobically motivated vandalism entered into force On August 24, 2007, the verdict . Recall that the court found the accused, who at the time of the crime (December 2006) was 17 years old, guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("inciting national hatred") Art. 214 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("vandalism") and sentenced him to a fine of 10 thousand rubles.

On August 25, 2007, in St. Petersburg, near the Park Pobedy metro station, a fight broke out between nationalists and participants in the Snickers-Urbania action, who were returning home after it had ended. A total of 10 people were involved in the fight. There were no injuries, none of the hooligans was detained. The police did not come to the scene. Sources Near the "Victory Park" 10 people fought. No casualties // Fontanka.ru. 2007. August 25. Aksenov D.