On May 28, 2009, statistics on crimes of an extremist orientation were named at the meeting of the board at the Main Department of Internal Affairs of the Sverdlovsk Region. Since the beginning of 2009, the activities of eight groups of Nazi skinheads totaling 76 people have been suppressed in the Middle Urals. Criminal cases are being investigated on 41 crimes of an extremist nature, 36 Nazi skinhead groups .

A representative of the SOVA Center took part in the trip of Russian human rights NGOs to the EU-Russia consultations on human rights on May 25-26 in Brussels. We bring to your attention the theses of the SOVA Center for these consultations. Racist violence continues to be an acute problem, especially in the capital. Like a year ago, January 2009 was marked by an increase in the number of attacks in Moscow, indicating the presence of a well-organized network of violent racist groups.

The head of the All-Russian public movement "Russian Islamic Heritage" Shavkyat Avyasov sent an appeal to Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin in connection with the violation of the rights of Muslims in the Penza region. We are talking about an attempt to dismiss a teacher at the Kuznetsk College of Electronic Technology, Nuria Sabitova, who is prohibited by the management of the educational institution from wearing a Muslim headscarf at work. Sh.

At the end of May 2009, the verdict handed down by the Industrial District Court of Kursk against two young people involved in nationalist attacks in 2007 and 2008 entered into force . and drawing nationalist inscriptions. Dmitry Sorokin was found guilty under Part 1 of Art.

The education department of the village of Golitsino, Odintsovo district, Moscow region, refused to transform the local elementary school No. 3 into an Orthodox gymnasium, despite the wishes of the teachers and parents of the students. Since June 1, 2009, the premises of this school have been transferred to school No. 1, and students are also transferred there. However, parents do not want their children to be transferred to another school.

The Muslim community of the city of Odintsovo, Moscow Region, has been seeking the allocation of a land plot for the organization of a cemetery for 10 years. In October 2008, the district authorities promised to allocate land, but no decision was made. Ravil Gainutdin, chairman of the Council of Muftis of Russia, also addressed the head of administration, but the situation has not changed. "The administration of the Odintsovo district all the time refuses and says that there is no land.

On May 29, 2009, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Arkhangelsk issued a guilty verdict in the case of the organizer of the youth club "Patriot Opinion" Alexei Mikhailov, who distributed V. Istarkhov's book " Blow of the Russian Gods" among the members of the club. A. Mikhailov was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity).

On May 29, 2009, the Department of Internal Affairs of the Ulyanovsk region held an interdepartmental scientific and practical conference "Actual problems of preventing extremism among young people", which provided statistics on extremist crimes in the Volga Federal District.

In February 2009, the prosecutor's office of the Samara region filed a lawsuit to liquidate the local religious organization Jehovah's Witnesses in Tolyatti. According to the prosecutor's office, the activity of the organization violates Art.

On May 25-26, 2009, in Brussels, the SOVA Center, as a part of a group of Russian human rights NGOs, participated in the EU/Russian Federation human rights consultations. We publish the talking points of the SOVA Center representative. Racist violence continues to be an acute problem, particularly in Moscow. As in the previous year, the January of 2009 was marked by an increased number of attacks in Moscow evidencing the existence of a well-organized network of violent racist groups.

On April 30, the Leninsky District Court of Yekaterinburg declared illegal the decision of the Office of the Federal Tax Service for the Sverdlovsk Region to deregister the community of the Seventh-day Adventist Christian Church in the city of Krasnoturyinsk. The decision to exclude the Adventist community from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (USRLE) was made by the Federal Tax Service on November 20, 2007 on the basis that the organization did not have its own bank account.