We are publishing an abstract of Anna Shestova's article "Human Rights Defense as a Social Service of Christian Churches".

On May 23, Metropolitan Job, head of the Chelyabinsk and Zlatoust diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, and V.I. Gora signed an agreement on cooperation between the diocese and the district in the cultural, educational and socio-economic spheres.

In May 2007 Diana Evstigneeva, an official from the Department of Education of Petrozavodsk, sent a circular to the city's schools. It was reported that the prosecutor's office began checking the activities of the Karelian branch of the "Youth Human Rights Group" (MPG). The circular states that the publications of this organization and the educational program implemented by its employees promote a cult of violence, incite national hatred and harm the psyche of children.

In the spring of 2007, the Office of the Federal Service for Supervision of Compliance with Legislation in the Sphere of Mass Communications and the Protection of Cultural Heritage (Rosokhrakultura) for the Southern Federal District issued warnings about the inadmissibility of using the media to carry out extremist activities to the editorial offices of two newspapers - Pulse Ossetia (North Ossetia) and "Angusht" (Ingush).

On May 22, 2007, the Leninsky District Court of Kirov delivered a verdict in the case of Valery Goncharov, a resident of the city, accused under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred). V. Goncharov was fined 30,000 rubles for distributing the anti-Semitic film "Russia with a Knife in the Back. Jewish Fascism." The verdict was appealed, but on July 10, 2007, the Kirov Regional Court rejected V.

Overview of the SOVA center We publish official statistics on criminal cases under Art. 282 (incitement of ethnic hatred), 282-1 (organization of an extremist community) and 282-2 (participation in an organization recognized as extremist by a court) for 2006 (data from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Supreme Court, provided to us by the Research Institute of the Prosecutor General's Office). According to Art.

Since the beginning of 2007, the territorial departments (TU) of the Federal Service for Supervision of Compliance with Legislation in the Sphere of Mass Communications and the Protection of Cultural Heritage (Rosokhrakultura) issued 14 warnings to the editorial offices of regional media about the inadmissibility of using the media to carry out extremist activities.

On May 24, Mikhail Barshchevsky, representative of the Russian government in the Supreme Courts, chairman of the Civil Force party's supreme council, said that the teaching of the defense industry inevitably leads to a split in society.

The Ekaterinodar and Kuban diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church has entered into a cooperation agreement with the local department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. Now the population will be notified about predicted or occurring disasters by ringing bells. “We are not replacing existing funds with bells – we are simply expanding our “audience,” .