On August 2, 2007, the Vzglyad weekly, published in Saratov, published a short informational message "In Saratov, representatives of diasporas commit more crimes than visitors." The material is openly nationalist in nature. Without naming the source of the information received, the author cites statistics of crimes committed by foreign citizens (in which the author included Chechens) and local residents - immigrants from the CIS republics (and again Chechens), and notes: "...

The actions of the rector of the Kazan Cathedral in the Siberian city of Achinsk, Archpriest Evgeny Frolov, who consecrated a plot of land that was allocated by the authorities for the construction of a cathedral mosque, became the reason for the appearance of an unusually harsh open letter from the head of the Muslim Spiritual Directorate of the Asian part of Russia and the co-chairman of the Council of Muftis of Russia Nafigulla Ashirov to Patriarch Alexy II .

On the night of July 30-31, the temple of the miraculous image of Christ the Savior in Kazan, not far from the Kremlin, was robbed and desecrated. As with reference to the rector, Fr. Fedor, reports the newspaper "Kommersant-Kazan" , "the attackers spilled lamp oil in the temple, tore the church vestments, tore off the icons and scattered building materials. In addition, they defiled the antimension - a board with sewn-in particles of relics on which the liturgy is performed.

On July 31, the Stavropol diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church signed an agreement on cooperation with the command of the internal troops of the North Caucasian district. reports with reference to the ATV-Stavropol television company As Blagovest-info , “the priests and officers decided to fight hazing together and strengthen the morale of the soldiers. To do this, the military promised to help in organizing Orthodox conversations and holding services.

The pastor of the Church of Evangelical Christian Baptists in the village of Kasplya, Smolensk, Vladimir Kalinin, has written an open letter to President Putin, alleging that the village administration interferes with the activities of the community. quotes the pastor’s appeal “They tell me directly that if I am Russian, then I simply have to be Orthodox, and in general there is no place for us Baptists here,” the Slavic Legal Center (with a link to the Baptist.org.ru website).

Pravoslavie.ru, citing the press service of the Saratov diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, reports that the deputies of the regional Duma supported the appeal of the head of the local diocese, Bishop Longin, to the governor, the chairman of the Duma and the regional prosecutor regarding the conclusion of an agreement between the regional ministry of investment policy and the Perm company TVS, which, as stated in the message, "gives the opportunity to broadcast in its network to sectarian TV

On August 2, the Supreme Court of Tatarstan passed a sentence on Vilsur Khairullin, Rauf Zinnurov, Said-Mokhmad Dangaev and Lema Atuev, who, according to the prosecution , were members of the Islamic Jamaat organization and committed 11 explosions and attempts to blow up fuel and energy facilities on the territory of Tatarstan, Bashkiria, and also Kirov, Ulyanovsk and Samara regions. All four had previously been found guilty by a jury. According to the Interfax-religion portal , V.

In Uglich, in just a few months, an almost ten-meter cottage grew up right under the walls of the Alekseevsky Convent. Only when the construction was almost completed, the abbess, mother Magdalena, filed an application with the inter-district prosecutor's office. According to the National News Agency , "according to the deputy head of Uglich, Oleg Ashmarin, the applicant actually applied to the administration with a request to issue him a permit to build a cottage.