Bishop of Saratov and Volsk Longin (Korchagin) sent to the speaker of the Saratov Regional Duma Pavel Bolshedanov with an appeal not to hesitate when adopting a bill to ban gambling establishments in the region. The bishop recalled that in 2005 he had already appealed to the local authorities with a request to limit the gambling business in the region.

The court of the Chita region found signs of extremism in the materials of the newspaper "Russian Transbaikalia" (RZ).

The Novosibirsk confectionery company "Stolitsa" has started production of new sweets "Orthodox Rus" and "Holy Rus". It is assumed that they will be popular with believers. The idea to develop a brand with a Christian theme arose after a priest in one of the regional centers of the Novosibirsk region refused to buy sweets from the factory "You are on the right path, comrades!" with a picture of Lenin.

On April 18, 2007, the conference "Human Rights and National Identity" was held at the Danilovskaya Hotel in Moscow, organized by the DECR of the Moscow Patriarchate and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Germany). High-ranking representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Catholic and Evangelical churches of Germany, deputies of the Bundestag from the CDU / CSU, Russian and German public figures of a conservative orientation spoke at the conference.

The Orthodox Brotherhood of the Holy Spirit, which exists under the Stavropol diocese, issued a statement condemning the anti-drug campaigns carried out by the Exodus Pentecostal Church. The statement was published by two local newspapers - Stavropolskaya Pravda (February 10, 2007) and Our City (February 24, 2007). The statement was circulated on behalf of the Stavropol information and advisory center on issues of totalitarian sects, operating under the Orthodox Brotherhood.

On April 17, 2007, law enforcement officers detained two suspects in an attack on a native of Armenia K. Abrahamyan, as a result of which the victim died. 18-year-old Pavel Skachevsky (according to other sources - Stashevsky), a student at the Russian State University of Physical Education, and Artem Ryno, a student at the icon painting department of the Moscow Art School (who, according to preliminary data, stabbed K.

On the night of April 13, 2007 in St. Petersburg, special services, together with the police, suppressed an attempt by ultra-right nationalists to attack a group of informal youth (Satanists and Goths), who decided to spend the night of "Friday the 13th" at the Smolensky cemetery of the city (district Vasilyevsky Island).

On April 18, 2007, it became known that as a result of checking the materials of the Open Youth Forum, held in Perm in February 2006, by the prosecutor's office of the Perm Territory, the nationalists' statements were not recognized as extremist.

On April 16, Khetag Tagaev, director of the consumer market and entrepreneurship department of the Togliatti City Hall, announced that the department's specialists were starting to fight unethical advertising in the city.

On April 18, 2007, the State Duma adopted in the third (final) reading amendments to the legislation of the Russian Federation, tightening punishment for extremist crimes. Deputies considered two bills in the second and third readings and adopted them.

In 2006, the community of believers in the village of Volzhsky Utes, Samara Region, transferred from the Russian Orthodox Church to the jurisdiction of the Russian True Orthodox Church (RTOC). Monk Daniel (Soldatov), ​​on the pages of a church publication, spoke about the persecution of the community by law enforcement agencies and the clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church.