A 30-year-old resident of Omsk is accused by the local prosecutor's office of distributing extremist literature. He was detained when he tried to get a batch of brochures from the Omsk printing house called "Fruits of Faith", printed, as it was established, by order of one of the Muslim organizations in Moscow. The author of this book is a Turkish citizen Said Nursi.

The administration of the village of Sosnovskoye, Kamensky district, Sverdlovsk region, handed over the building of the former House of Culture to the newly created local Orthodox community for the arrangement of a prayer house in it. The dimensions of the building are such that in addition to the actual prayer room, it can also accommodate an Orthodox library and an icon shop. At the same time, preparations are underway in the village for the restoration of the old Nativity Church.

On September 21, Yuri Korolev, deputy head of the Main Directorate of Criminal Investigation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, told reporters that in recent years the number of thefts of icons and other valuables from churches has increased. "Over the past five years, more than one thousand Orthodox churches have been subjected to criminal encroachments. In addition, there is a steady increase in these crimes.