On October 22, 2007, the prosecutor's office of St. Petersburg filed charges under paragraph "c" part 2 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("actions aimed at inciting national hatred or enmity, committed publicly, with the use of the media, by an organized group") to the editor-in-chief of "Rus Pravoslavnaya" Konstantin Dushenov.

On October 23, 2007, the Moscow City Court sentenced three skinheads who committed two attacks (on citizens of Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan ) and the murder of a citizen of Kyrgyzstan. Sergey Beryakov and minor S. were found guilty under Article 105, Part 2, paragraphs. “d,zh,l” (murder committed with particular cruelty by a group of persons by prior conspiracy motivated by national hatred); according to Art. 282 part 2 pp.

In an interview with the Novy Mir newspaper in Kurgan, Deacon Andrei Kuraev criticized the migration policy of the Russian authorities. "Russia's future is bright, but short. We have fifty years left. Then Islam will come. It is strange that the government of our country does not understand this and does not take any measures, populating the country with guest workers," the Interfax-religion portal quotes him as saying .

On October 22-23, a regular meeting of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Russia took place. One of the topics discussed at the meeting was the situation with the issuance of entry visas to representatives of the Catholic clergy and monastics. The participants expressed deep concern about the visa policy of the Russian authorities.

On October 23, 2007, the decision of the Leninsky District Court of Ufa came into force to recognize as extremist the content of a DVD that was confiscated from a 25-year-old resident of the city during an inspection conducted by the prosecutor's office and the republican FSB. The disc contains video material about the activities of the Hizb ut-Tahrir organization.

Ed. Alexander Verkhovsky We are publishing the text of the SOVA Center's traditional seasonal report "Summer 2007: Xenophobia and Anti-Extremism before the Big Elections", which covers the events of June-August 2007. The report was presented at a press conference at the Moscow Independent Press Center on October 16, 2007.

On October 22, the prosecutor's office of St. Petersburg filed charges under paragraph "c" part 2 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("actions aimed at inciting national hatred or enmity, committed publicly, using the media, organized by a group") to the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Rus Pravoslavnaya" Konstantin Dushenov. According to the text of the indictment, K.

On the night of October 17, unknown people destroyed 58 graves at the cemetery in the Zaikovo microdistrict of the city of Kurgan. "About half of the graves have broken crosses, while others have damaged marble monuments," Interfax quoted the press service of the Prosecutor's Office of the Kurgan Region as saying.

On October 23, 2007, the President of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Vyacheslav Shtyrov, addressed the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika and the Minister of Internal Affairs Rashid Nurgaliev with a letter in which he expressed concern over the brutal murder of chess player Sergei Nikolaev in the southwest of Moscow .

Islam.Ru, citing the Zvezda Povolzhya newspaper, reports that the Prosecutor General's Office is conducting a large-scale inspection of Tatar-Turkish lyceums in Tatarstan. "They are looking for books by the Turkish theologian Said Nursi, which were recently banned in Moscow. There is a search of libraries in schools and conversations with teachers and officials of the Ministry of Education of Tatarstan," the newspaper writes.

Interfax, citing the press service of the prosecutor's office of Bashkiria, reports that the decision of the Leninsky district court of Ufa on recognizing as extremist the content of a DVD that was confiscated from a 25-year-old resident of the city during an inspection conducted by the prosecutor's office and the republican FSB. The disc contains video material about the activities of the Hizb ut-Tahrir organization.

On October 22, 2007, a group of teenagers killed an ethnic Armenian, 23-year-old Hovhannes Hayrumyan, in Moscow. The attackers fled the scene. About 20 o'clock. the young man was returning from a rehearsal at a music school, which he graduated a few years ago in the violin class. The attack took place near his house at Chertanovskaya metro station. Passers-by, who heard cries for help, called an ambulance and the police.