Chairman of the State Council of Tatarstan Farid Mukhametshin on November 19 sent a letter to the government of the Russian Federation with a request for assistance in creating a program about Muslims on the federal TV channel. An agreement on this was reached on November 12 during a working trip to Kazan by First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

Screening of V. Murnau's film "Nosferatu. A Symphony of Horror" has been canceled in St. Petersburg. The film, shot in 1922, was supposed to be shown on November 20 as part of the XIV Art-November International Festival. The demonstration of the film to the music of Iraida Yusupova was coordinated with the administration of the St. Isaac's Cathedral museum-monument, a branch of which is a concert and exhibition hall, where the screening was planned.

The head of the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography (Roskultura), Mikhail Shvydkoy, said that part of the monuments of the Solovetsky Monastery will remain the property of the state and will form the exposition of the newly created Museum of the Russian North. “I met with the patriarch on November 14, we discussed the issue of transferring the monuments of the monastery to the ownership of the Church. We ask that the agency retain part of the fortifications of the monastery,” M.

In early November, 30 people calling themselves representatives of the “real Russian Orthodox Church,” together with 4 children (the youngest is less than one and a half years old), stocked up on food and moved to a cave near the villages of Poganovka and Nikolskoye, Bekovsky district, Penza region. They motivate their action by the approach of the “end of the world,” which they intend to wait for in the chosen shelter.

On November 19, 2007, a round table was held in the Moscow City Duma on the topic “National extremism among youth. Solutions.” The event was held as part of a joint meeting of the commissions on interethnic and interfaith relations, physical education, sports and youth affairs.

On September 1, an Orthodox gymnasium was opened in Saratov. The diocese sent out a press release on this occasion, which said that the new educational institution does not have its own building, so the gymnasium students will study in the premises of the Spiritual and Educational Center at the Intercession Church on Simbirskaya, 36. In the future, the gymnasium will be allocated the building "one of the Saratov Schools", which belonged to the Russian Orthodox Church before the revolution.

The Union of Orthodox Citizens called on the A Just Russia party to reject in the Federation Council the bill “On Amendments to Certain Acts of the Russian Federation (in terms of changing the concept and structure of the state educational standard)”, adopted by the State Duma in the third reading, which abolishes the regional component. “In this case, the Union of Orthodox Citizens is ready to call on Orthodox Christians to support A Just Russia in the elections.

Muslims in Chelyabinsk are outraged by the appearance of a billboard depicting a kneeling man with his head buried in the sand. The image is supplemented with the inscription: "No problem?" According to believers, the man on the poster resembles a praying Muslim in prostration. The association is strengthened by the fact that the poster is placed next to the pointer to the mosque. The representative office of the Council of Muftis of Russia in the South Urals has begun preparing a lawsuit.

On November 18, 2007, a series of attacks on black foreigners took place in the center of St. Petersburg. In the period from 18.25 to 20 o'clock in the area between the Nevsky Prospekt-2 station (exit to the Griboyedov Canal Embankment) and the Kazan Cathedral, 5 citizens from Afghanistan, India, Nigeria and Algeria suffered at the hands of a group of young people. The injured were taken to city hospitals.

In early November 2007, an attack on a native of Uzbekistan was carried out in Moscow at the Kuznetsky Most metro station. Two hooligans, outwardly resembling skinheads, first insulted an elderly native of Uzbekistan, who was riding in a subway train car, and then tried to attack him. One of the passengers stood up for an elderly man. A fight broke out between him and the hooligans.

On November 18, 2007, in Nizhny Novgorod, an anti-Semitic propaganda leaflet was found in entrance 4 of building 45/4 on Lenin Ave. A criminal case has been initiated, presumably under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred or enmity). This became known from the news about the recognition of the leaflet as extremist material. Sources Leaflet found at the entrance of one of the houses in Nizhny Novgorod, recognized as extremist // NewsNN.Ru.

On November 20, 2007, a presentation of a new book by the SOVA Center, “The Tops and Bottoms of Russian Nationalism,” was held at Intrefax in Moscow. The press conference was attended by representatives of the SOVA Center Alexander Verkhovsky and Galina Kozhevnikova, RSUH professor Galina Zvereva and sociologist of the European University of St. Petersburg Tatyana Smirnova.

First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, speaking at a gala evening dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the restoration of the patriarchate, promised that the state would continue to provide assistance to the Russian Orthodox Church in the restoration of churches. In 2007, more than 1.5 billion rubles were allocated for these purposes, and from 2008 to 2010 it is planned to allocate more than 6 billion rubles.

Astemir Bzhakhov, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, turned to the Prosecutor of the KBR O. Zharikov, the Commissioner for Human Rights V. Lukin and the Human Rights Center of the Memorial society with a statement about pressure from law enforcement agencies. On November 14, in the house of A. Bzhakhov in the village of Zolukokoazh, employees of the Zolsky District Department of Internal Affairs conducted a search in order to search for weapons and drugs.