Pastors of evangelical churches in the Tula region are concerned about the intensification of the fight against "sects" in the region. On August 2, Governor Vyacheslav Dudka held a meeting "On the state of interethnic and confessional relations in the Tula region and measures to prevent extremist manifestations and facts of interethnic intolerance and hatred," where he announced the discovery of a US military intelligence officer as part of one of the missionary groups.

On September 3, 2007 "Levada-Center" published the data of the survey "Ethnic Aggression: Overt and Covert", conducted on August 10-13, 2007. 1,600 Russians took part in the survey. The statistical error of such surveys is not higher than 3%. To the question "Do you currently feel hostility towards yourself from people of other nationalities?" The answers were distributed as follows: 53% responded that they had never or almost never experienced such hostility.

In 2007, the Central Office of Rossvyazokhrankultura issued 6 warnings to media editorial offices for violating Article 4 of the RF Law "On Mass Media". From May to July 2007, the editors of the Vechernyaya Ryazan (Moscow) newspaper were issued a warning for publishing an article by A. Zhbankov, known for his anti-Semitic views, "The Red Flag Has Been Overthrown.

On August 29, the "Local" movement began the action "No to sects on Russian soil!". A theatrical performance took place in Elektrostal, Moscow Region. We quote the description of the action given on the website of the movement: “The audience saw a huge figure on stilts and in a characteristic American hat. The stilt-walker, in turn, led a puppet “preacher” of dubious beliefs.

The Office of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (UFAS) for Udmurtia recognized the advertising of the Mebelville furniture salon as offensive and obscene. On May 24, 2007, five cases were initiated against its owner.

On August 23, 2007 in Moscow, skinheads tried to attack a student of the University of Friendship of Peoples from Sri Lanka and a student of the Medical Academy from Malaysia, who were seeing off their friends at the Leningradsky railway station. The skinheads demanded from the young people a "report" on the purpose of their stay in Russia and, according to the students, were going to beat them up. Fortunately, the foreigners managed to escape.

On the night of September 1, a cemetery in Khabarovsk was desecrated. On dozens of graves, unknown people toppled crosses, split tombstones, painted monuments with swastikas. Novye Izvestia cites statistics on cemetery vandalism: over the past year, more than 1,500 criminal cases have been initiated in Russia on the fact of desecration of cemeteries, while only 148 people were convicted, 1 was sentenced to imprisonment. Sources Pozdnyaev M. Tomb Crushers // Novye Izvestia. 2007. September 5.

The European Court of Human Rights decided to consider the case of the demolition of the Astrakhan mosque N 34 as a matter of priority. On 17 July the applicants received a notification to that effect. Recall that in May 2007 the Supreme Court withdrew the case on the demolition of the mosque. Sources The European Court of Human Rights will consider the case of the demolition of an unfinished mosque in Astrakhan as a matter of priority // Slavic Legal Center. 2007. September 4th.

In Moscow, the publishing house "Plats", with a circulation of three thousand copies, published a book by Maria Stiller "The Tale of Adolf Hitler", released in 1940 for teenagers in Nazi Germany. In mid-summer 2007, the book went on sale in Moscow shops. The original source for the Russian edition was taken from the Lenin Library. The translator of the book, Aleksey Sagan, claims that "not a single book is immune from readers drawing the wrong conclusion from it.

On the night of August 31 to September 1, 2007, graves were desecrated at the city cemetery of Khabarovsk. Unknown people painted swastikas on monuments on dozens of graves, knocked down crosses, and split marble tombstones. The cemetery administration says that a criminal case may have been opened. Sources Pozdnyaev M. Tomb Crushers // Novye Izvestia. 2007. September 5.

At the end of August 2007, the Prosecutor's Office of the Seimsky Administrative District of Kursk opened two criminal cases under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“incitement of national hatred”) on the facts of the appearance in various places of the city in August 2007 of the inscriptions “Russia for Russians "," Death to Khacham " , etc. The prosecutor's office of the Seimsky administrative district of the city of Kursk checked these inscriptions.

On the night of August 29-30, an attack was made on an Orthodox cultural and educational center in the Istra district of the Moscow region. Three young men broke the windows with an iron pipe. In response to the requests of the workers of the center to stop the disgrace, they shouted that they had come from Moscow specially to "beat Jehovah's Witnesses." The attackers did not react to assurances that there were no Jehovists here.