On August 17, 2007 in St. Petersburg, prosecutors filed a cassation appeal with the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation demanding that the punishment of Alexander Shabalin, the organizer of the murder of Timur Kacharava, be tougher. According to the prosecutor's office, A. Shabalin should be imputed not to paragraph "i" of Part 2 of Art.

The Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Altai opened a criminal case under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (actions aimed at inciting hatred and enmity, as well as at humiliating the dignity of a group of people on the grounds of an attitude to religion, committed with the use of the media).

In with. Diveevo, Nizhny Novgorod region, more than a thousand people refuse Russian passports, seeing in them anti-Christian symbols. Basically, these are not local residents, but those who move to Diveevo from other regions in order to settle closer to the Seraphim-Diveevo Monastery. “It’s hard for me to say whether they are believers or sick, I apologize for the expression.