Representatives of Orthodox-patriotic organizations called on the Samara authorities to prevent Boris Moiseev's concerts scheduled for February 5 and 6 in the city. “Boris Moiseev (aka: “little Borya”, “fallen angel”, “blue moon”, and at a recent concert in Novosibirsk he turned to the public with an appeal to call him the devil) has long ceased to be perceived in society as just an artist.

The prosecutor's office of the Leninsky district of Ufa opened a criminal case against the non-commercial partnership "Ufa Center for Dianetics and Scientology". In the course of checking the legality of the Center's activities, it was found that its employees had been selling tablets of vitamins C, B1, B2, B6, B12 to citizens for a long time, while recommending that customers use them in doses significantly exceeding the permissible norms.

On December 10, 2007, the secretary of the Yaroslavl diocese sent a letter to the leadership of the Uglich State Historical, Architectural and Art Museum demanding that the building of the Transfiguration Cathedral be vacated within a month. On January 6, 2008, it became known that the diocese had filed a lawsuit against the museum.

On November 15, 2007, in Nizhny Novgorod, near the Zarechnaya metro station, three Nizhny Novgorod residents attacked two citizens of Uzbekistan. One of the victims received stab wounds. The attackers shouted: "Death to the Uzbeks! Russia for the Russians! Uzbeks, get out!" and recorded the beating on a video camera for posting on the Internet. The attackers have now been arrested. against them The prosecutor's office of the Nizhny Novgorod region opened a criminal case .

The St. Petersburg diocese and the Central Internal Affairs Directorate for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region signed a cooperation agreement. The agreement assumes that Orthodox priests will conduct conversations with teenagers and participate in rehabilitation programs for employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs after business trips to hot spots. The policemen promise to intensify their efforts to prevent and uncover the theft of church valuables.

In January 2008, the city court of Sortavala (Karelia) considered a criminal case against Alexander Zazhigin under Art. 214 (vandalism) and part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred or enmity). The Sortavala court found A. Zazhigin guilty under Art. 214 and part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and sentenced him to 9 months in prison (conditionally) with a probationary period of 7 months.

Archpriest Igor Pchelintsev, spokesman for the Nizhny Novgorod diocese, called for legislative restrictions on the use of religious symbols in advertising. "We have a huge amount of immoral advertising everywhere! We need to register the rights of religious organizations to their symbols and protect these rights under the law," the priest said.

On December 29, 2007, the court of the city of Balakhna (Nizhny Novgorod region) delivered a verdict in the case of 9 teenagers accused of assaulting two natives of Azerbaijan. According to Nadezhda Kosareva, deputy prosecutor of the Balakhna district, they were convicted under Part 2 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity) and sentenced to imprisonment for up to 1 year (conditionally), but the sentence has not yet entered into force.

On January 16, 2008, a citizen of Uzbekistan, Kaumov, was killed in Shcherbinka (Moscow region). The attackers knocked the man down with a baseball bat, stabbed him forty times and fled the scene. In September 2009, it became known that the attackers had been detained. They turned out to be members of the Nazi skinhead group, which committed a series of murders motivated by national hatred - Vladislav Tamamshev and Viktor Appolonov.

We publish a list of the guilty verdicts for the violent crimes in which the motive of ethnic or religious hatred was officially recognized by the courts in Russia, in 2007. The list was made in chronological order on the basis of the SOVA Center monitoring. In 2007, in total, we got to know about 23 guilty verdicts brought in 16 regions of Russia. The news to which we provide links are in Russian language. January 25, Voronezh region. Verdict for the murder in 2006 of a Vietnam citizen.

Here we publish a list of articles, reports and fragments of reports on the problems of nationalism, xenophobia and discrimination, prepared by the authors of our Center in 2008 for other publications and organizations and not included in the sections "Anti-Semitism" and "Hate Speech " ) . Publications are listed in reverse chronological order. Previous publications can be viewed here (for 2002-2005), here (for 2006), and here (for 2007). [Kozhevnikova G.

The Yekaterinburg diocese and the administration of Yekaterinburg signed a cooperation agreement. The agreement was signed by the head of Yekaterinburg, Arkady Chernetsky, and the Archbishop of Yekaterinburg and Verkhoturye, Vikenty (Morar). "The agreement is aimed at the implementation of joint programs in the field of education, culture, healthcare and the social sphere, " Pravoslavnaya Gazeta reports .

On November 15, 2007, the prosecutor's office of the Nizhny Novgorod region opened a criminal case against three Nizhny Novgorod residents who attacked two citizens of Uzbekistan. A criminal case was initiated under paragraph "a" part 2 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of hatred committed with the use of violence), paragraph "d" part 2 of Art.

On January 16, 2008, in Moscow, near house No. 16 on Minskaya Street, Nazi skinheads attacked a citizen of Kyrgyzstan. 22-year-old Nurlan Erkinbaev, who worked as a loader at the Gorbushkin Dvor market, was stabbed 46 times. The man died. This became known from the news about the beginning of the trial of the accused Nazi skinheads. Sources Butorina E. Hunting "White Wolves" // Time of News. 2009. September 1.