The developers of the draft "Code of the City of Moscow on Administrative Offenses" decided to exclude from the text of the bill the norm contained in Art. 3.8, which provides for administrative liability for "molesting citizens in public places" for the purpose of religious propaganda. The adoption of this bill by the Moscow City Duma in March 2007 provoked protests from human rights and religious organizations.

On September 13, a forum of Muslim women "Women in the 21st century: family and society" was held in Kazan, in which 250 people from 40 regions of Russia took part. The resolution of the forum expresses "serious concern about the introduction in a number of regions of the Russian Federation of the course "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture" without permission, which is contrary to the Constitution (Articles 26, 28, etc.)".

On September 13, the Ryazan City Council considered an appeal from the head of the Ryazan administration, Fyodor Provotorov, to take measures to “maximally accelerate the timing of the transfer of objects of the Ryazan Kremlin to the Russian Orthodox Church and the transfer of the museum-reserve.” The head of the city proposed transferring municipal property located at the following addresses into federal ownership: st. Lenina, 35 (total area 2,329.2 sq.m); st. Lenin.

Since the summer of 2007, in the city of Neryungri (Yakutia), a number of aggressive manifestations have been recorded against workers from China who came to build the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean oil pipeline. After more than 850 Chinese builders arrived in the city under an agreement between Transneft and the Chinese corporation CPP, leaflets appeared on the streets calling for the expulsion of the Chinese.

On September 13, during a meeting of the Council for the Implementation of Priority National Projects and Demographic Policy, Vladimir Putin responded to the request of the leader of the People's Union party, Sergei Baburin, to “remove concerns regarding the disappearance of such school subjects as “Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture” and “History of World Religions” (We are talking about the bill “On amendments to certain acts of the Russian Federation (in terms of changing the concept and

On September 14, 2007, Valery Vyzhutovich, a columnist for Rossiyskaya Gazeta, published the comment "Silence - a sign of consent?" Timed to coincide with the consideration in the State Duma of an amendment to the law on the media, which prohibits the press from indicating the nationality of criminals and victims. Xenophobic moods, writes V. Vyzhutovich, are sometimes really provoked by the mass media.

At the beginning of September 2007, on the initiative of the anti-fascist Internet portal Antifa.ru, the website of the neo-Nazi organization Format 18 was once again closed.

On September 13, 2007, in St. Petersburg, the apartment of the director of the right-wing radical publishing house "Kifa", the chairman of the brotherhood of the New Martyr Archbishop Hilarion of Vereisky, Sergey Kanaev, was searched. The search was carried out as part of a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting national, racial and religious hatred), initiated against S.

On September 14, in St. Petersburg, a cross was set on fire, installed on Poklonnaya Hill, at the site of the construction of the temple. Recall that in June this mortgage cross was already attacked by vandals. Sources In St. Petersburg, the Royal Cross is again desecrated // Russian line. 2007. September 14.

On September 13, 2007, a "round table" dedicated to combating nationalism and religious intolerance was held at the Murmansk regional police department. The event was attended by the heads of individual departments of the Internal Affairs Directorate and local national-cultural and religious associations (Dagestan, Azerbaijani, Muslim religious societies). Law enforcement officials informed the participants of the meeting about criminal cases related to manifestations of national intolerance.