On May 17, a press conference was held in Moscow, the participants of which - Nafigulla Ashirov, head of the Muslim Spiritual Directorate of the AChR, Rafik Mukhametshin, rector of the RIU, Ibragim Ibragimov, head of the Nuri-Badi cultural and educational center, and lawyer Sergey Sychev, expressed concern about the course of the trial on the case of banning books Muslim theologian Said Nursi. In their opinion, the recognition of S.

In mid-May 2007 in St. Petersburg, on a concrete fence blocking off railway tracks, 300 meters from the Obukhovo railway station, a large inscription "Death to the Jews" appeared, framed by three swastikas. Inc. inf.

On May 16, 2007, the State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill aimed at yet another tightening of punishment for extremist activity.

In mid-May 2007, the Prosecutor of Karelia, Oleg Dupak, ordered to check the materials on the refusal to initiate a criminal case against Alexander Stepanov, a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia. This decision was caused by the fact that earlier the prosecutor's office of the Olonets district refused to initiate a criminal case against the deputy. Recall that the district prosecutor's office conducted a check for signs of extremism in the statements of A.

On May 17, a solemn ceremony of signing the Act of Canonical Communion between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad took place in the Moscow Cathedral of Christ the Savior. The document, in the presence of hierarchs and clergy of both churches, as well as representatives of the Russian government headed by President Putin, was signed by Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus' and Metropolitan Laurus of Eastern America and New York.

An Interfaith Council has been created under the Administration of the Irkutsk Region. It included eleven representatives of religious organizations in the region: Orthodox, Evangelical Christians (Pentecostals), Jews, Evangelical Christians-Baptists, Seventh-day Adventists, Muslims, Old Believers, Catholics, Lutherans (Ingria Church), Buddhists - as well as three employees of the regional administration and governor's office.

On May 17, 2007, in Kaliningrad, a verdict was passed against the head of the local branch of the Movement Against Illegal Immigration (DPNI), Alexei Safin, born in 1977. The Central District Court of Kaliningrad convicted A. Safin under Part 1 of Art.

weekly The Abakan , citing Natalya Salata, an expert of the Department for Public and Religious Associations of the Office of the Federal Registration Service for the Republic of Khakassia, published official data on the number of religious organizations in the region: "Today, 73 religious organizations are registered in Khakassia, of which two are centralized and 71 are local. At the same time, 22 religious organizations are registered in Abakan.