In mid-December 2007, the City Court of Engels, Saratov Region, sentenced a local resident Konstantin Simonov for attacking an Uzbek citizen motivated by racial hatred in August 2007. K. Simonov was sentenced to 3 years and 3 months in prison to be served in a penal colony mode. K.Simonov found guilty of committing a crime under paragraph.n. "d, e" part 2 of Art.

The Orthodox shelter "Nikita" in the Pavlovsky Posad district of the Moscow region, which was almost closed in the spring of 2007 following the results of inspections carried out by office 's the prosecutor , received material assistance in the amount of one million rubles, Izvestia reports . On December 19, the money collected by the Moscow diocese was handed over to the head of the orphanage, hegumen Ambrose, by Metropolitan Yuvenaly of Krutitsy and Kolomna.

portal On December 20, the Interfax-Religion reported that the Judicial Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation dismissed the complaint of Sergei Davlyatchin and Roman Sukhachev against the decision of the Sverdlovsk Regional Court, which in May 2007 sentenced the first of them to 21 years and 7 months in prison and a fine in the amount of 400 thousand rubles, and the second to 20 years and 11 months in prison and a fine of 300 thousand rubles for the murder of an Orthodox

On November 16, 2007, the Nizhne-Volzhsky department of Rosokhrankultura issued a warning about the inadmissibility of abusing the freedom of the mass media to the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Blessed Rus" Pavel Zaitsev. The warning was issued in connection with the publication in No. 7 of the newspaper of an article by Archpriest Alexander Shargunov "The Spiritual Meaning of the Ritual Murder of the Royal Family" and an article by A.P.

On December 20, the head of the Council of Muftis of Russia, Ravil Gainutdin, speaking at the Moscow Cathedral Mosque with a festive sermon on the occasion of the main Islamic holiday Eid al-Adha, called on Muslims not to shy away from participating in the country's presidential elections in March 2008. "We must show civic responsibility and take an active participation in the presidential elections in the Russian Federation," R. Gainutdin is quoted by the Interfax-religion portal .

On December 3, 2007, the investigation was resumed under paragraph "c" 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") against the Nurcular organization, whose members, according to the investigation, distribute books Muslim theologian Said Nursi, recognized by the court as extremist. Across the country, in dozens of cities, there were searches in this case.

We publish the Human Rights First's press release of the 2007 Hate Crime Report Card . European Governments Must Do More to Tackle Hate Crimes TEL AVIV - A majority of European governments get a poor grade in their efforts to tackle violent hate crimes, according to Human Rights First's 2007 Hate Crime Report Card released today at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) meeting in Tel Aviv.

On December 19, 2007, it became known about another racist attack committed on August 8, 2007 in the town of Engels, Saratov region.

On December 18, 2007, in the capital's Basmanny Court, hearings began in the case of the leader of the neo-Nazi organization "Format 18" Maxim Martsinkevich ("Tesaka"), accused of organizing a nationalist provocation in the "Bilingua" club in February 2007 during public political debates. Let us remind you that M. Martsinkevich was charged under paragraph “c” of Part 2 of Art.

A resident of Elektrogorsk, near Moscow, demanded to cancel the free medical insurance policies that are due to her two sons and daughter (they are from 1 to 3 years old), and also to remove the personal data of children from the information database. As Moskovsky Komsomolets writes, “the citizen believed that in this way she would protect her children from the influence of evil spirits.

On December 17, 2007, the international human rights organization Human Rights First released its annual report on hate crimes in 2007. The report contains a separate chapter on Russia. The press release of the report (in English) is available here .