The Deputy Chairman of the DECR MP, Archbishop of Kaluga and Borovsk Kliment (Kapalin), in an interview with Pravoslavnaya Narodnaya Gazeta (published by the parish of St. Sergius of Radonezh in Samara) said that Russian TV channels, by showing American films and programs, instill in young people "sympathy for Western anti-Orthodox culture" and it "undermines the Orthodox Church bit by bit".

In Maykop, the authorities closed the Suleymanji Islamic (Sufi) organization's charitable and educational boarding house, established almost two years ago by Turkish missionary Burcu Najmettin Ismail, the local newspaper Severny Kavkaz reports . The decision on liquidation was made by the Arbitration Court of Adygea at the suit of the republican prosecutor's office.

On December 19, members of the radical Islamist group Jamaat were detained in Ulyanovsk. According to Channel One (with reference to ITAR-TASS), "weapons, videotapes with recordings of Wahhabi sermons and episodes of the execution of Russian soldiers were confiscated." According to the preliminary investigation, out of ten detainees, two were involved in the preparation of a terrorist attack in Kaspiysk in 2002.

On December 21, the All-Russian Missionary Expedition "The Gospel to the Peoples of Russia", organized by the Russian Union of Evangelical Christian Baptists, set off from Moscow. Its participants - more than 200 people - will drive 40,000 kilometers to Magadan along the coast of the Arctic Ocean, and then return to Moscow along the southern and western borders of Russia. In 214 cities of the country they will hold 256 evangelization actions, missionary conferences and other events.