A 56-year-old resident of Nizhnekamsk damaged four signs with texts of prayers and a cross for blessing water in the Church of the Resurrection of Christ with a screwdriver. The amount of material damage amounted to 20 thousand rubles. The detained intruder, as it turned out, is registered in a psycho-neurological dispensary. No criminal case was initiated. Sources In Nizhnekamsk, a mentally ill man defiled an Orthodox church // Russian line. 2007. 4 August.

On August 6, the Khoroshevsky Court of Moscow reversed its decision of May 14, according to which "sectologist" Alexander Dvorkin had to refute his words on the air of the National Interest program that the Moscow Helsinki Group was financed by Scientologists. The decision was canceled due to violations committed during the trial: A. Dvorkin did not receive notice of the lawsuit, which is why he could not attend the court session on May 14.

The Voronezh diocese and the regional registry office signed a cooperation agreement, the purpose of which is to fight divorce. As part of the agreement, a special office has been allocated in each registry office, where priests hold conversations with those who intend to start a family and with those who are going to divorce. An interview with a priest is not mandatory, but there have been no cases of refusal, according to the head of the city's Wedding Palace, Lyubov Shishkina.

In the spring of 2007, a conflict began around the Bishop's House in the Tobolsk Kremlin. The building, which houses the Museum of the History of the Spiritual Culture of the Peoples of Western Siberia, was planned to be transferred to the Tobolsk and Tyumen diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. The Bishop's House is the only building on the territory of the Kremlin left behind by the museum.

In August 2007, in Veliky Novgorod, unknown vandals painted on the Victory Monument with red paint an image of a fascist swastika and inscriptions in Russian and English. Letyagin A. Vandals desecrated the monument to Alexander Nevsky in Veliky Novgorod // RIA Novosti. 2007. November 6.

On August 2, the Union of Orthodox Brotherhoods (SPB) decided to exclude from its membership the rector of the church of St. Nicholas on Bersenevka, hegumen Kirill (Sakharov). He is accused of attempting a coup in the organization. At the end of July, a message appeared on the Russian Idea website about the dismissal of Leonid Simonovich-Niksic, the chairman of the SPB, and the appointment of Valentin Lukyanik to this position.

On August 6, 2007, the Novye Izvestiya newspaper published an article by Aslambek Paskachev, chairman of the Russian Congress of the Peoples of the Caucasus, "Geography of the conflict: Kondopoga, Stavropol, Moscow", dedicated to the danger of Caucasian phobia in Russian society and, among other things, touching upon the problem of hate speech. First of all, A.

In early August 2007, the Ulyanovsk public organization "Parents' meeting" appealed to the regional prosecutor's office with a demand to stop the sale of literature promoting Nazism in the shops of the city. The reason for the appeal was the purchase of several books in one of the large bookstores of the city "Knigomir", which, according to the applicants, are open propaganda of neo-Nazism.