, has begun its work The Orthodox Russia media server , a joint project of the Orthodox Russia free hosting server and the Moscow Compound of the Holy Trinity Sergius Lavra , conceived as an Internet platform for placing Orthodox audio and video resources. The authors of the project emphasize that all materials will be exhibited only with the permission of the copyright holders.

On the night of August 17-18, 2007, in the village of Kytsigirovka (Irkutsk Region), a mass beating of villagers took place, which, according to eyewitnesses, had, among other things, the motive of ethnic hatred. The beating was preceded by a domestic incident, when several drunken young people from neighboring villages tried to enter the territory of the juvenile shelter located in the village in order to "meet the girls." A fight ensued, in which the brawlers themselves suffered.

On August 24, 2007, the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Central Federal District announced the transfer to the Cheryomushkinsky Court of Moscow of materials in the case of a neo-Nazi motivated attack on a native of Ulan-Ude that occurred on April 20 . Charges were brought against two of the four attackers (their nicknames are given - Ares - the leader of the group and Stanok).

The Department of Rosokhrankultura for the North-Western Federal District appealed to the district department of the Prosecutor General's Office and the Prosecutor of the Novgorod Region in connection with the destruction of a fragment of a mural in the Church of the Epiphany of the Iversky Monastery on Selvitsky Island in Valdai.

On August 26, 25 Orthodox activists gathered on Pushkin Square in Moscow. They intended to perform a prayer service for the restoration of the Strastnoy Monastery, which used to stand on the square, but was destroyed in 1937. However, as the Interfax-religion portal reports with reference to the Information and Public Relations Department of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital, the believers were asked to disperse by police officers .

On July 13, 2007, the head of the Department of State Policy and Legal Regulation of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Isaac Kalina, signed an order "On sending to the constituent entities of the Russian Federation an exemplary agreement on cooperation between the education authority of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation and a centralized religious organization." “This agreement,” the document says, “was developed with the participation of

At the end of August 2007, the prosecutor's office of the Kirovsky district of St. Petersburg opened another criminal case against the leader of the neo-Nazi Freedom Party, Yuri Belyaev, for xenophobic articles and speeches. under the self-explanatory title "Learn to kill ! reason for initiating the case was an interview by Y. Belyaev to the newspaper "Our version in St.

At the end of August 2007 in Bryansk, on the Bordovichi railway platform, members of the Rzhanitsy group of skinheads beat up a 55-year-old passer-by. The man was hospitalized in hospital No. 1 in Bryansk with multiple stab wounds, from which he soon died. The reason for the beating was the victim's refusal to give the young people money. Two suspects in the attack - 29-year-old and 18-year-old residents of Bryansk - were detained.

In August 2007, the prosecutor's office of the Zavodskoy district of the city of Orel transferred to court a criminal case initiated in November 2006 under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of ethnic hatred using the media), against the editor-in-chief of the Dozor newspaper, DPNI-Orel leader Yevgeny Shilin. The case was referred for consideration to the court of the Zavodskoy district of Orel.

At the end of August 2007, the Federal Service for Supervision of Mass Communications, Communications and the Protection of Cultural Heritage (Rossvyazokhrankultura) issued a written warning to the Izvestia newspaper for Dmitry Sokolov-Mitrich's article "Genghis Khan, open your face", published in the issue of May 18, 2007 G. This article, as S.K.

Russkaya Liniya published a statement from the Yaroslavl anti-sectarian center regarding the Indian Festival scheduled for August 27 in Yaroslavl (copies of the statement were also sent to the city mayor's office, the regional administration and prosecutor's office, the regional police department and the Federal Reserve Department).

On August 23, 2007, the criminal case against Igor Terekhov and Igor Smirnov, the leaders of the Amur Department of the Union of the Russian People (SRN), was returned by the court to the prosecutor's office to eliminate the shortcomings made in the indictment. Let us recall that the trial of RNC activists accused of inciting ethnic hatred (Article 282) and creating an extremist community (Article 282-1) began in July 2007.