On December 2, 2007, on the day of elections to the State Duma, it became known that the verification of campaign materials confiscated from the Union of Right Forces on suspicion of the presence of extremism in them was coming to an end. 20 out of 35 million campaign publications will be returned to the Union of Right Forces on 4 December.

In 2006, Vyacheslav Datsik (Red Tarzan), world champion in MMA, Vyacheslav Datsik (Red Tarzan), was detained for a series of robbery attacks on mobile phone stores in St. Petersburg and the region. This detention, as well as the course of the investigation, was widely covered in the press, since the group of raiders, led by Datsik, acted extremely boldly.

On the night of August 19, 2007, Nazi skinheads attacked citizens of Uzbekistan on Green Avenue in Moscow. The attackers stopped two men (20 and 22 years old) and a woman near the Sova club. The men were thrown to the ground and began to be kicked and beaten with a metal stick. Then they used a knife. Citizens of Uzbekistan were hospitalized in serious condition. They died from their injuries.

As the Interfax-religion portal reports, speaking on December 1 at a church-scientific conference in Moscow, the head of the DECR MP, Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, said: “We will never agree and will constantly dispute the presence of ordinary dioceses of the Catholic Church in Russia and we believe this a challenge to our common commitment to the territorial principle of ecclesiastical government." The decision to raise the status of the structures of the Catholic Church in

On November 30, 2007, two Nazi skinheads who attacked citizens of Uzbekistan in August 2007 near the Sova club were detained in Moscow. The detainees were a 16-year-old 11th grade student, a football fan (nicknamed Pig) and a 19-year-old resident of Zelenograd, “obsessed with Nazi ideas.” The young people were part of the Nazi skinhead youth group.

In September, in the town of Kotlas, Arkhangelsk region, unidentified persons desecrated thirty-six tombstones at the unguarded Makarovo cemetery. On some monuments, a pentagram is drawn, crosses are pulled out of the grave and turned upside down. As the local newspaper Courier Belomorya wrote on September 18, “Kotlashans more than once found cynical inscriptions, occult signs and Nazi swastikas on grave monuments.

The head of the pagan religious association of the Commonwealth of the Natural Faith "Slavia" Dionysus Georgis (magus Lubomir) called on "pagans, Rodnovers and sympathizers" to support, firstly, his appeal to the Prosecutor General's Office with a request to initiate a criminal case in connection with the attacks on Halloween, and in - second - a new appeal to the media and the public , in which an attempt was made to formulate "signs of inciting hostility and fear, as well as a discriminatory

On October 10, 2007, in Saransk, student Alexander Pyanzin was charged with public calls for terrorist activities (part 1 of article 205.2) for uploading the book "Russian Cuisine - ABC of Domestic Terrorism" to a file-sharing network. The book is a compilation of various "recipes": from how to harm the neighbors to how to make an explosive device.

Immediately after the end of the parliamentary elections on December 2, representatives of various religious organizations hurried to comment on their results - still preliminary. Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, deputy chairman of the DECR MP, told an Interfax correspondent: "In my personal opinion, it is obvious that the absolute majority of the people support the policy of the current state leadership of Russia.

We are publishing the text of the resolution of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of Russia, aimed at ensuring the correct and uniform application of legislation on criminal liability for hooliganism and other crimes committed with hooligan motives. This resolution contains a number of positions to which we would like to draw the attention of our readers (see the section “Counteract Radical Nationalism” ).

On the night of October 19-20 - on Saturday - a new attack was made on the Astrakhan synagogue ( the previous attack took place in September 2006 - Ed. ). According to the local newspaper Molodyozhnaya Palitra, "at night, at 0:43 a.m., a janitor who was in the synagogue heard a group of unidentified persons with anti-Semitic cries and slogans unambiguously begin to threaten the community with physical violence.

On the night of October 19-20, 2007, an attack was made on the Astrakhan Jewish religious community in Astrakhan. A group of unknown young people, shouting anti-Semitic slogans ("Jews get out!" and "Kill the Jews!") and threatening members of the community with physical violence, broke a window and tore down a sign on the building of the Jewish center. The watchman of the synagogue called the police. Law enforcement officers appeared on the scene 15-20 minutes after the call.

On November 24, 2007, Vice-Rector of Saratov State University (SGU) for Public Relations, a candidate for the regional Duma on the list of United Russia, Dmitry Chernyshevsky, entered the Civic Chamber of Russia. We remind you that D. Chernyshevsky is the author of the article "The Defeat of the Mirzekhanovshchina at the Faculty of History", in which, among other things, he appeals to the ethnicity of the dean of the Faculty of History.

Archbishop of Tomsk and Asinovsky Rostislav expressed his readiness to personally vouch for the ex-mayor of Tomsk Alexander Makarov, who is accused under seven articles of the Criminal Code and is currently being held in a pre-trial detention center. The defense of the former mayor filed a petition to change his preventive measure under the guarantee of the head of the diocese.

portal citing the press service of the local diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church In the village of Mirny near Saratov, unknown attackers cut down a cross from the roof of an Orthodox church in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, reports the Interfax-religion . On the fact of the incident, the Kirovsky District Department of Internal Affairs has already initiated a criminal case under Art. 214 ("Vandalism") of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.