A signal version of the textbook "History of Religions" has been developed in Tatarstan. It is going to be offered as a textbook for Russian schools.

The Federal Drug Control Service of the Russian Federation (FSKN) summed up the results of the competition among non-governmental organizations for the best program in the field of prevention of drug addiction and drug crime, as well as social rehabilitation of drug addicts for 2005-2006. Four Orthodox organizations that took part in the competition were among the winners. This is the parish of the temple of the Kanev Icon of the Mother of God in the village.

On December 22, 2006, the deputies of the State Duma adopted in the second reading amendments to Art. 214 of the Criminal Code (vandalism) and the Code of Administrative Offenses (KOAP). Recall that the changes proposed by the deputies of the Criminal Code and the Code of Administrative Offenses are aimed at toughening criminal and administrative liability for vandalism and the manufacture and sale of Nazi symbols and paraphernalia.

A joint commission of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation and human rights organizations checked the observance of the principle of secular education in the study of the "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture" in the Bryansk region according to the program and educational and methodological support of Alla Borodina.

The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation submitted a proposal to the head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Compliance with Legislation in the Sphere of Mass Communications and the Protection of Cultural Heritage (Rosokhrakultura) to eliminate violations of the requirements of the Federal Law "On Counteracting Extremist Activity".

A group of Orthodox Petersburgers sent a letter to the City Advertising Center protesting the festive decoration of the city. Believers were outraged that the Peter and Paul Fortress was "inscribed" in the New Year's landscape as one of the elements.

On December 21, 2006, in Vladivostok, by decision of the Leninsky District Court, two more teenagers out of five suspected of attacking workers from the DPRK were arrested. The Prosecutor's Office of the Primorsky Territory chose a written undertaking not to leave the place as a preventive measure for the fifth suspect. Sources Two more teenagers suspected of attacking Koreans were arrested in Vladivostok // ITAR-TASS. 2006. December 22.

On December 21, 2006, the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) published the results of a survey aimed at finding out the level of nationalist sentiment in Russian society. The poll was conducted on December 2-3, 2006 in 153 settlements of 46 regions, territories and republics of the Russian Federation. 1600 people were interviewed. The statistical error does not exceed 3.4%.

In December 2006, it became known that on October 18, 2006, the Supreme Court considered a cassation appeal (dated May 29, 2006) against the verdict in the case of the murder of Javad Sheikhov, a native of Dagestan by a group of skinheads in 2004. The court did not satisfy the cassation and upheld the verdict without changes. Thus, all five defendants were found guilty under paragraphs. "g", "l" part 2 tbsp.

In an interview with Pskovskaya Pravda, Georgy Drachev, head of the FSB department for the Pskov region, said that representatives of foreign religious organizations often "go to the families of the military, relatives of intelligence officers, to secret bearers," and "many of the so-called" preachers "were trained in the training camps of Western special services." Recognizing that "religious associations represented in the Pskov region (Mormons, Jehovists, Pentecostals, Baptists, Seventh-day

The leader of the Russian United Union of Evangelical Christians (ROSKhVE) Sergei Ryakhovsky filed a lawsuit against the head of the St. Irenaeus of Lyons to Alexander Dvorkin. The reason was the speech of the latter in the program of the TV channel "Russia" "National Interest" on September 30, 2006. Then A. Dvorkin accused S. Ryakhovsky of preparing the "orange revolution". The head of the ROSHVE asks the court to recognize A.

Lawyers for Grigory Grabovoi, accused of fraud, appealed to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg with complaints of numerous violations during the trial of their client. Lawyers consider the detention of G. Grabovoi to be illegal. In addition, the defense believes that all the evidence in the case file is based only on the testimony of the victims, and the investigation cannot confirm the fact that Grabovoy received money.