In January 2010, the case against 70-year-old Vitaly Pasekov, accused under Part 1 of Art. 280 (public calls for extremist activities) and Part 1 of Art. 282 (inciting hatred or enmity). According to the investigation, from May 2008 to February 2009, in a cafe-bar on Dekabristov Street, Pasekov conducted racist propaganda, distributed films and literature, taught his supporters how to assemble radio equipment for surveillance, taught conspiracy and convinced them to use explosive devices.

On January 15, 2010, in the Bryansk district of the Bryansk region, a criminal case was transferred to the Bryansk Magistrate's Court against Alexei Galoburd and Vitaly Chukeyev, accused under paragraph "b" of Part 2 of Art. 115 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (intentional infliction of minor bodily harm based on national hatred). The men are accused of beating up two Uzbeks in September 2009 when they spoke their native language in front of them.

On January 18, 2010, the Moscow prosecutor's office announced that it had issued a warning about the inadmissibility of extremist activity to the head of the Council of Muftis of Russia, Ravil Gainutdin.

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 2010 for other publications and organizations. Publications are listed in reverse chronological order. Previous publications can be viewed: for 2002-2005 - Here , for 2006 - here , for 2007 - here , for 2008 - here , for 2009 - here . The Russian authorities are trying to curb the wave of racist attacks - (commentary by G.

On January 18, the Moskovsky District Court of Cheboksary (Chuvash Republic) passed a sentence on 24-year-old resident of Nizhny Novgorod Galina Shitova, accused under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity). According to the investigation, on January 7, 2009, Shitova sent racist text messages from her mobile phone to the live ticker of the local TV channel Channel 5+TNT. The court found G.

On January 18, RIA Novosti hosted a round table with the participation of Russian art historians. The main topic of discussion was the transfer of church buildings and museum values ​​to the Russian Orthodox Church. Museum workers fear that the development of a bill on the transfer of religious property to religious organizations without taking into account the opinions of experts will lead to the loss of most of the transferred values.

On January 13, the head of the department of ethics of the Faculty of Philosophy of St. Petersburg State University, Vadim Perov, who developed the textbook “Fundamentals of Religious Cultures and Secular Ethics” by order of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, refused further work on this order. The proposal to work on the textbook was received on December 8, 2009, and a preliminary version of the text had to be submitted by December 15.

On January 18, 2010, in Nizhny Novgorod, the case of an ultra-right group that carried out attacks on people of non-Slavic appearance in the city from 2008 to April 2009 was submitted to the court. The group included three students of local universities (two of them were minors at the time of the crimes) and four teenagers. According to the investigation, the gang committed three murders and 8 attempted murders.