Sochi authorities have promised not to demolish the Old Believer village of Imeretinka near Adler. Recall that local residents feared that in connection with the start of construction on the eve of the Olympics, they would be relocated from there, and the village itself would be demolished. In September, Credo.ru, citing NTV , reported that the Sochi authorities had promised not to demolish the settlement and turn it into one of the objects of the Olympic tourism industry.

On September 17, a training seminar on the implementation and teaching of the course "History of Religions" was held at the Kazan Theological Seminary. This course was introduced in several schools in Tatarstan on an experimental basis. The seminar was attended by 56 people from different regions of the republic.

The Federal Court of the Moskovsky District of St. Petersburg accepted the case "on caricatures of Jesus Christ" for consideration. The plaintiff is an assistant to State Duma deputy Alexander Chuev, political scientist Georg Gabrielyan. He demands that the newspaper "Peterburgskaya Tema" be brought to justice and compensate for the moral damage inflicted on him.

On September 18, in the Sverdlovsky District Court of Kostroma, hearings began on the case of building a business center near the Ascension Church on Debre. The city prosecutor's office demands to suspend all work on the territory of the former flour mill, because. The audit revealed gross violations of the law.

Director of the Solovetsky Museum-Reserve Mikhail Lopatkin, referring to the head of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Clement (Kapalin), said that in August the Government of the Russian Federation decided to transfer 300 buildings and structures on the archipelago to the Solovetsky Monastery. This decision was made without discussion with representatives of the museum and contrary to the agreement concluded in 2005 between the museum and the monastery. According to M.

In August 2007, in Murmansk, 4 Nazi skinheads attacked a resident of the Pervomaisky district, " "mistaking him for a person of a different nationality . The man received serious bodily injuries. Nazi skinheads were frightened off by passers-by. The attackers were detained. 4 young people participated in the attack, 2 of them were minors. Maxim B., the leader of the attackers, shaved his head and was wearing a black jacket and heavy boots. He had previously been prosecuted under Art.

In late August - mid-September, unknown people damaged 18 tombstones at the Muslim cemetery in Omsk, where burials are no longer held. A visitor to the cemetery reported the incident. The Department of Internal Affairs of the region began an investigation into this fact. No nationalist inscriptions or drawings were found on the damaged tombstones. Sources In Omsk, vandals damaged 18 tombstones at a Muslim cemetery // Interfax-religion. 2007. September 18.

On September 18, 2007, it became known that discs with the writings of Nazi ideologists, Adolf Hitler's book "Mein Kampf", archival fascist films, as well as discs with SS marches are freely sold in Kursk. On the covers of some of these discs, swastikas and portraits of Hitler were seen. Such materials are sold in kiosks in all districts of Kursk.

On September 18, 2007, the Moscow City Court upheld the decision of the Koptevskiy Court of Moscow of May 21, 2007, declaring Russian translations of books by the Muslim theologian Said Nursi as extremist literature. Thus, as of September 18, 2007, the court's decision entered into force. This means that the publication and mass distribution of these books is now prohibited on the territory of the Russian Federation. See also the section "Religion in a secular society" .