On February 4, 2009 in Geneva, at a session of the UN Human Rights Council, the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on human rights presented by the Russian Federation was considered (the text of the report presented by Russia can be found here - in Russian and English ).

In Veliky Ustyug, third grade students committed an act of vandalism. Children at the cemetery tore several crosses out of the ground, broke the monument, tore off the plates with photographs. A total of 15 graves were damaged. Police officers are preparing a petition to the court to place one of the girls in the temporary detention center for juvenile offenders of the Regional Department of Internal Affairs for 30 days.

of the seizure of churches in Suzdal from the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (ROAC) was announced On February 5, the decision of the Arbitration Court of the Vladimir Region on the case . In total, the court decided to withdraw 13 churches in favor of the state. Among others, the court confiscated the Tsarekonstantinovsky Cathedral of Suzdal, which is the main temple of this church, from the ROAC. There is the pulpit of its first hierarch.

Co-Chairman of the Council of Muftis of Russia Nafigulla Ashirov sent a letter to Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika about the oppression of Muslims in the Kemerovo region. N. Ashirov accuses Ekaterina Stas, chairman of the Committee for Interaction with Religious Organizations of the Kemerovo Region, of destabilizing the activities of religious communities in the city and the region.

The All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) has published the results of a survey on the results of the election of a new patriarch. The survey was conducted on January 31 and February 1, 2009. According to the data received, more than two-thirds of Russians (68%) already know who has become the new patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church. 26% of respondents do not know it.

On October 24, 2008, the Sovetsky District Court of Vladivostok recognized the leaflet "Call the Appeal" as extremist material (the spelling given in the list of the Ministry of Justice has been retained). The leaflet was found on April 11, 2005 in the city at the entrances of residential buildings on the street. Kirov and on the street. Amur.

On February 2, 2009, at about 9:00 pm, a group of 8 young people, apparently about 15-20 years old, attacked natives of the Caucasus in an electric train near Moscow. The attackers broke into the 2nd and 3rd cars of the electric train going to Moscow at the Malakhovka station. Young people walked along the car, looking for "people of non-Slavic appearance" and beating them with their hands, feet and glass bottles. The exact number of victims is unknown.

On February 4, 2009, in Geneva, the UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review Working Group reviewed the fulfillment of human rights obligations by the Russian Federation. The Human Rights Council expressed its concern on the problem of Russian anti-extremist legislation which due to its excessive broadness violates human rights and on the growth of racism and aggressive xenophobia in the country. The text of the official Russian report is available here .

On February 5, 2009, Anatoly Bagmet, head of the Moscow Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation, announced at a press conference that, according to official data, in 2008 the number of crimes motivated by ethnic hatred had increased in Moscow. "We registered more than 80 of them ," said the head of the capital's investigative department. A.

On February 4, 2009, the case of an attack on a native of Armenia in Voronezh in early September 2008 was sent to the court. The preliminary investigation of the case was completed. A 20-year-old young man who hit an Armenian with a knife has been placed in a pre-trial detention center. The remaining three (previously reported 2) participants in the attack are under house arrest.