reports The new aircraft of the Kaliningrad airline "KD avia", which began operating flights on September 17, 2007, was named after the head of the DECR MP, Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, by decision of the board of directors, the official website of the Russian Orthodox Church . The Boeing 737-300 was consecrated by Metropolitan Kirill during his archpastoral visit to Kaliningrad on September 26.

Ulyanovsk scientists sent an appeal to President Putin in support of the sensational “Letter from Academicians,” reports Portal-Credo.ru . The document was signed by 21 people. The authors of the appeal believe that the defense education course, which is being introduced into the curriculum of schools in the region from September 1, 2007, is close to the Law of God.

On October 6, members of the Eurasian Youth Union intended to hold a picket in Morshansk (Tambov region) in defense of the rights of the local community of the Russian Orthodox Church on the building of the Assumption Church, for the return of which the Old Believers have been fighting since 2002. However, the city administration refused to issue a permit for the action.

Five religious figures: the head of the Buddhist traditional sangha of Russia, Damba Ayusheev, the chairman of the RCM Ravil Gainutdin, the Metropolitan of Kaluga and Borovsk Clement, the Chief Rabbi of Russia (FEOR) Berl Lazar and the head of the ROSKhVE, Bishop Sergei Ryakhovsky, - appointed in September 2005 to the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation for "presidential list", will retain their powers for another two years.

On September 28, 2007 Oksana Chelysheva, a representative of the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society, spoke at the annual meeting of the OSCE "on the human dimension" in Warsaw. (Since the RCFS was liquidated, O.

The decision of the Tuymazinsky District Court (Bashkiria) on recognizing as extremist materials that were confiscated from three members of Hizb ut-Tahrir, who were convicted by the same court in June 2007 under Art. 282-2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The basis for the decision was the presentation of the public prosecutor of the republic.

The trial in the case of Grigory Grabovoi (remember, he is accused of fraud on an especially large scale under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), suspended due to the appointment of a psychological and psychiatric examination for the defendant, will continue on October 8. The cassation instance of the Moscow City Court declared the decision of the Tagansky court to order an examination illegal. G. Grabovoy’s lawyer Vyacheslav Makarov told Interfax about this.