On September 13, 2007, the Supreme Court considered the cassation appeal of lawyers in the case of the murder in St. Petersburg in 2005 of the Congolese student Roland Franz Epassac. The verdict of four convicts in the case was upheld. Recall that Andrei Gerasimov, Yuri Gromov, Andrei Olenev and Viktor Orlov, who were found guilty, received 14, 9.9 and 7 years in prison, respectively.

On October 12, 2007, the Prosecutor's Office of the Krasnodar Territory held an educational and methodological seminar-meeting on the problem of countering extremist activity. The following were named as the main tasks for law enforcement agencies in this area: prevention of offenses motivated by racial, national or religious hatred, dissemination of extremist materials on the Internet and the media, countering illegal migration.

On September 25, 2007, a criminal case was initiated in Obninsk (Kaluga Region) under Art. 280 (“public calls for extremist activity”) and Art. 282 (“incitement of national hatred”) on the facts of publications in the weekly Moskovskiye Vorota. later it became known that this was not the case).

On October 12, 2007, the Supreme Court upheld the verdict handed down by the Stavropol Regional Court to Roman Koyushev, who had committed the murder of Abubekir Kurdzhiev, Imam of Kislovodsk. The cassation appeal was dismissed. It should be reminded that on May 18, 2007, the Stavropol Territory Court delivered a verdict in the case of the murder of the Imam of Kislovodsk. The accused R.

Archimandrite Peter, confessor of the Holy Bogolyubov Convent of the Russian Orthodox Church in Vladimir, handed over five hundred icons with the image of the Mother of God of Peschanskaya to the Party of Social Justice (Party of Conscience). According to IA Marketing and Consulting , "Father Peter blessed the director of the St.

On September 22, a native of Azerbaijan was attacked at one of the parking lots in the Central District of Tver. The victim is a citizen of Russia and has been living in the city for 13 years, doing business. After he parked his car in the parking lot, he was called by an unknown person, then three more drunken young people approached him for no apparent reason and started beating the victim.

On October 4, 2007, the Orenburg Regional Court issued a decision to close the newspaper "For Vera, Tsar and Fatherland!", whose materials had previously been recognized as extremist.

A criminal case was transferred to the Leninsky District Court of Stavropol against two student brothers accused under paragraph "a" part 2 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred with the use of violence). The reason for initiating a criminal case was the beating of a visitor from Ukraine by the brothers.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Izhevsk, on the application of the Prosecutor of the Udmurt Republic, recognized as extremist the materials of three right-wing radical publications: the monarcho-fascist newspaper "Russian Falanga" (N 14 (42) of December 25, 2004), the newspapers "Respublika" N 4 (April 18-24 2004) and "Our People's Observer" (NNN) N 1 (November 2003).

On October 4, the Orenburg Regional Court ordered the closure of two newspapers whose materials had previously been deemed extremist. One of these newspapers is Orthodox. It is called "For Faith, Tsar and Fatherland". In the spring of 2007, the Buzuluk inter-district prosecutor's office initiated a criminal case against its editor-in-chief. He was accused of inciting national hatred. See the section "Nationalism and xenophobia" for more details .

Sedmitsa.ru published an appeal of the initiative group for the revival of the Nikolo-Peshnoshsky Monastery, founded near Dmitrov in 1361 by a disciple of St. Sergius of Radonezh, St. Methodius of Peshnoshsky. At present, the territory of the monastery is occupied by psycho-neurological boarding school No. 3.