On May 3, the Moscow Arbitration Court ruled in favor of the "Kingdom of God" church, dismissing the suit filed by the Federal Property Management Agency, which claimed the building of the community's prayer house. Representatives of the Federal Property Management Agency did not provide documents proving the state's ownership of the premises on the street. Godovikov. As a result, the court dismissed all of the plaintiff's claims.

Granite headstone in the form of a cross Smolenka near Chita is split by unknown people. The cross was installed at the memorial complex for the victims of political repression in 1991 over a mass grave. The identity of the vandals has not yet been established. Sources In Chita, vandals desecrated a cross erected in memory of victims of political repression // Week. 2006. May 3.

The Health Department of the Administration of Yekaterinburg and the Yekaterinburg diocese have entered into a cooperation agreement. The purpose of cooperation is to improve the demographic situation in the region. The parties intend to jointly conduct educational activities to prevent abortion and promote large families, take care of abandoned children. Doctors and priests will take part in seminars on the protection of motherhood and childhood.

The All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion conducted a survey, the participants of which were 1,600 people from 153 settlements of Russia. 47% of the respondents were in favor of a more active influence of the Russian Orthodox Church on the spiritual life of society, 29% would prefer the Church, like other religious organizations, to limit its activities to ceremonies and rituals. 18% want the ROC to influence the life of not only society, but the entire state.

On May 2-3, 2006 an interactive seminar "Civic Activism" was held in Krasnodar, organized by the Youth Group for Tolerance "ETnIKA". At the meetings of the seminar, students and high school students of the city and the region, who passed the preliminary selection, were introduced to the theories and concepts of European and Russian scientists, philosophers, and human rights activists.

On May 3, 2006, the Central District Court of Chita dismissed Alexander Polupoltinnykh, member of the board of the Trans-Baikal regional branch of the Union of the Russian People (SRN), in a civil lawsuit against Andrey Kopteev, a journalist from the regional weekly Extra. The representative of the Chita "Black Hundreds" (A. Polupoltinnykh) tried to recover 10 thousand rubles from a well-known journalist in the region for publishing an article on the pages of the newspaper "Extra", in which A.

Secretary for Relations between the Church and Society of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Priest Mikhail Dudko, speaking at a round table held in Moscow on problems of interethnic relations, approved the idea of ​​teaching "Fundamentals of Muslim Culture" in the North Caucasus. According to the priest, teaching the basics of "traditional" religions will reduce the number of manifestations of extremism and the growth of xenophobia in society.

The head of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Chuvash Republic, Albert Krganov, appealed to the prosecutor's office with a request to cancel the registration of the Central Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Chuvash Republic , created in 2005. A. Krganov accused the leadership of the new organization of banditry, participation in the drug business and "Wahhabism".

In early May 2006, Alexander Koptsev , convicted of attacking parishioners of a Moscow synagogue, was interrogated as part of a criminal case on the dissemination of extremist information on the Internet. According to A. Koptsev's lawyer Vladimir Kirsanov, the investigator was interested in how Koptsev came to Internet cafes, what sites he went to, where he found the publication of the book "Blow of the Russian Gods". V.