On October 20, the RTR TV channel aired a report from Penza, which claimed that the organization "Jehovah's Witnesses" was involved in the suicide of one of the teenagers (when examining the apartment where the teenager lived, the corresponding religious literature was found). The report also reported that in the near future the Penza prosecutor's office was going to charge this organization with incitement to suicide.

In the course of an interview given by the head of the DECR MP, Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad to Gazeta , in particular, the problems of financial relations between the Church and the state were touched upon.

The first deputy head of the DECR MP, Archbishop Kliment of Kaluga and Borovsk, commented on the ITAR-TASS news agency on the situation that arose after the adoption by the State Duma on October 17 of the Federal Law, which supplemented the Tax Code of the Russian Federation with the chapter “Property Tax of Organizations” (see the text of the bill prepared for the third reading October 20).

On October 22, satisfaction with the position of Mufti Ravil Gainutdin, chairman of the Council of Muftis of Russia, expressed the Russian Orthodox Church on the issue of Russia's entry into the OIC on behalf of Russian Muslims.

Interesting statistics were provided by the Minister for Federation Affairs, National and Migration Policy of the Russian Federation Vladimir Zorin, speaking on October 22 at the conference "The Role of the Media in the Formation of Tolerance and the Prevention of Interreligious Conflicts" organized by the Social and Methodological Council for the Coverage of Religious Issues under the Ministry of the Press of the Russian Federation.

On October 22, Gazeta published an interview with the head of the DECR MP, Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad. During the conversation, in particular, issues related to church-state relations were touched upon. Speaking about the position of the Church in relation to communism, Metropolitan Kirill noted: “The strength of faith is manifested in readiness for life according to the commandments of the Lord, and not in opposition to certain political figures or doctrines.

On October 21, Moscow hosted organized by the Islam.Ru a round table discussion entitled "Islamophobia in the Russian Mass Media" channel. Politicians, public figures, ambassadors of Arab states, scientists, journalists, representatives of "traditional" confessions took part in its work. The final statement notes concern "with the problem of using the media to incite interethnic and interfaith hatred in Russia. Of particular ...

The Stavropol Regional Court is hearing the case of the so-called "Nogai gang" from the village of Kayasuly, Neftekumsky district, whose members, according to investigators, attacked law enforcement officers. Two imams are accused of organizing and leading a criminal group: Batyrbek Bakiyev and Murtazali Zarakayev (there are eight people on trial in total).

The Public Committee "For the Moral Revival of the Fatherland" announced the start of a "protest action against obscene metro advertising." The members of the Committee were outraged by posters advertising "Red Devil" placed in carriages and at stations of the Moscow metro (Sokolnicheskaya and Koltsevaya lines), which "contain an image of Satan with the inscription "Lord of Energy.