On September 20, Deputy Head of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Major General Gennady Ivanov, announced that before the end of 2007, the Ministry of Internal Affairs would start marking icons in Russian churches. It is planned to put special marks on the icons containing information about the owner of the shrine and the region of its permanent storage.

The prosecutor's office of the South-Western District of Moscow established a circle of suspects in the murder of the son of an Iranian diplomat, 19-year-old (according to other sources - 21-year-old) Ahmad Reza Khorami, who died from stab wounds as a result of an attack by unknown people on September 16. "There are suspects, but so far no one has been detained.

In September 2007, in the Kurchatovsky district of the Kursk region, the inter-district prosecutor's office checked the implementation of the federal laws "On countering extremist activity" and "On countering terrorism" in the municipalities (MO) of the district.

In Syktyvkar (Komi Republic) there is a trial on a new criminal case against the leader of the nationalist organization "Union of National Revival" (SNV) Yuri Ekishev. New accusations were brought against Yu. Ekishev under Part 1 of Art. 282.1 (Organization of an extremist community), Part 1 of Art. 282 (inciting national hatred) and Art. 150 (involvement of minors in the commission of a crime) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

At the end of September 2007, in Blagoveshchensk (Amur Region), the court dismissed the criminal case against 3 accused young people who, on the night of July 23, 2007, painted the building of the FSB administration for the Amur Region and the memorial in honor of awarding the Amur Region with the Order of Lenin with swastikas. Those under investigation, who were detained in hot pursuit, were charged under Art. 214 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (vandalism).

Anatoly Pchelintsev, chairman of the Slavic Legal Center, and Andrey Sebentsov, executive secretary of the Commission on Religious Associations under the Government of the Russian Federation, discuss the effectiveness of the 1997 Law "On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations" on the pages of the NG-Religion newspaper. According to A.

Pope Benedict XVI appointed Paolo Pezzi head of the catholic department in Moscow. Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusevich, who previously headed this department, was transferred to Belarus. Father Paolo Pezzi is the rector of the Catholic higher theological seminary "Mary - Queen of the Apostles" in St. Petersburg. On October 27, in the Moscow Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Monsignor Paolo Pezzi was ordained to the rank of archbishop.

On September 14, Vladimir Putin, during a meeting with members of the Valdai international discussion club, said: “Russian culture is based primarily on Christian values. In this sense, Russia is a European country. But we have 15 million Muslims living in the country, and a significant part of the territory is in Asia, and there are interests in Asia too.” Let us recall that in 2005 , speaking in Kuala Lumpur, the president named the same number of Russian Muslims.

On September 18, 2007, the Internet publication Izbrannye.Ru published an article by Lidia Grafova entitled "Guest workers were equated to dogs", dedicated to the scandal associated with the joint provocation of the Federal Migration Service and the Local movement , aimed at identifying illegal migrants. There are two questions for the author.

Oleg Zatelenin, assistant to the chairman of the military collegium of the Supreme Court of Russia, urged members of the Jehovah's Witnesses not to be sent to urgent military service or to alternative civilian service. Such a statement was made by a representative of the Supreme Court during the conference "Alternative Civil Service. Practice of Implementing the Federal Law "On Alternative Civil Service". Experience, Problems, Ways of Development".