On June 24, 2011, in Moscow on Bolotnaya Square, a group of neo-Nazis attacked two people from Tajikistan. Young people caught up with the visitors and started beating them, and then a 17-year-old student one of the lyceums, hit each of the natives of Tajikistan several times with a folding knife in stomach. The attack took place in front of passers-by who did not intervene happening. One of the victims died in the hospital.

At first July 2011 we got the opportunity to familiarize ourselves with the decision of the court Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, which on May 31, 2011 refused liquidate the local religious organization "Nur Islam" Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Asian part of Russia.

On July 5, 2011, it became known that the leadership of the Nilo-Stolobenskaya Hermitage canceled the decision to move the old cemetery, made at the end of June on the eve of the All-Russian youth forum "Seliger". The assistant to the viceroy for public relations, Father John (Zakharov), told reporters that “no one will dig graves without the blessing of the Church,” the only reburial that is planned to be carried out is the transfer of the remains of Leonty Magnitsky (1669-1739).

July 5, 2011 year in the center of Ryazan, law enforcement agencies detained 13 football fans with paint cans. During investigative activities, it was found that the fans are planning paint the facades of buildings on the central streets of Ryazan with Nazi symbols and racists inscriptions in memory of the deceased on July 10, 2010 in a fight with the natives of Chechnya, the Spartak fan Yuri Volkov.

On June 29, 2011, FSB officers conducted a search in the apartment of the head of the political council of the "Russian Obraz" Alexei Mikhailov. On the same day, searches were carried out at the homes of two more activists of the organization. A. Mikhailov's computer system unit, a notepad with notes and two SIM cards were confiscated. According to right-wing websites, the searches were authorized as part of a criminal investigation about the murders of judge E.

On July 1, 2011, another protest rally took place on Victory Square in Ryazan transfer of buildings of the Ryazan Kremlin to the diocese.

At least six people became victims ofracist and neo-Nazi attacks in June 2011, with three of those dying due totheir injuries. These figures bring the year-to-date totals to 14 deaths, 58people injured, and an additional 5 people receiving death threats across 15regions of Russia. We recorded at least three acts ofvandalism motivated by hatred or neo-Nazi ideology in June.

On July 4, 2011, in an interview with Portal-Credo.ru, senior researcher at the Tretyakov Gallery Levon Nersesyan expressed his attitude to the forms of implementation of the law on the transfer of property for religious purposes to religious organizations.

July 5, 2011 Judicial Collegium for Civil cases of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation overturned the decision to liquidate the local religious organization "Church of Evangelical Christians "Grace" of the city Khabarovsk", adopted by the Khabarovsk Regional Court on April 27, 2011, and remanded the case for a new trial in the court of first instance.

On July 5, 2011, the press service of the Moscow Patriarchate, citing “a source in the capital’s department of culture,” reported that the Museum of Moscow, which occupies the building of the Church of St. John the Evangelist near Elm, transferred to the Church in September 2010, must vacate the church premises by October 1, 2011.

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On July 5, 2011, the Supreme Court of Dagestan rejected cassation presentation of the prosecutor's office of the republic and left the acquittal the verdict of the Leninsky District Court of Makhachkala against the journalists of the newspaper "Chernovik". The prosecutor's office requested that the verdict be annulled and the case remanded for another trial at the same court in a new composition, but the Supreme Court of the Republic did not support this requirement.

On July 3, 2011, a conversation was published in Novaya Gazeta Alexandra Soldatova with Minister of Culture Alexander Avdeev, dedicated to the law on the transfer of property for religious purposes to religious organizations. The Minister of Culture recalled that the law is not about the transfer of objects of the museum fund, but on the transfer of buildings: “ Property from the museum funds is not transferred, this is fixed by law.