On November 16, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Karelia overturned the decision of the Sortavalsky City Court, which recognized that some of the facts in the article published by the Skepsis magazine by Dmitry Sinitsa, a resident of the island of Valaam, are untrue and discredit the name of the abbot of the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Valaam Monastery. The case was sent for retrial. Recall that the Valaam Monastery filed a lawsuit to protect business reputation.

At the end of November 2007, the Moscow Regional Court sent for a new trial to the Odintsovsky District Court of the Moscow Region a criminal case on an attack on a citizen of Kyrgyzstan in an electric train by a group of skinheads in November 2006.

On November 21, 2007, a court in the city of Belovo, Kemerovo Region, sentenced 50-year-old Alexander Nikolaenko, an activist from The Other Russia, to 2 years and 6 months of strict regime for speaking at a rally near the FSB headquarters in Belovo, in which he called on law enforcement agencies to "deal with a bunch of extremists in face of Putin, Deripaska and Abramovich". Initially, Nikolaenko was charged under Part 2 of Art.

In Tomsk, the chairman of the regional electoral committee, Gennady Kazak, sent a letter to the regional branch of the Union of Right Forces, in which he recommends that they refrain from distributing the Right Bank leaflets, since, in his opinion, they contain signs of extremism. The letter also states that the materials should be sent to the prosecutor's office.

The administration of the Spiritual Board of Muslims of the Chelyabinsk region denied the information about the preparation of a lawsuit against the company that placed the advertising poster "No problem?". The poster is stretched at the entrance to the city, its content has nothing to do with Islam, does not contain anything offensive to the religious feelings of Muslims, according to the DUM. Sources Promotional poster "No problem?" has nothing to do with Islam // Islam.ru. 2007.

On November 21, 2007, the Maykop City Court of Adygea issued a verdict in the case of posting a Nazi video on the Internet. The accused - Viktor Milkov was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred) and was sentenced to a year of correctional labor with deduction of 10 percent of his earnings in favor of the state. The verdict will come into force in 10 days unless appealed by the defense.

ROMIR Monitoring has published data from a survey concerning the attitude of Russians towards faith. During the study, 1,500 people were interviewed in 102 urban and rural settlements in all federal districts. 80% of respondents identified themselves as believers.

On November 21, 2007, three detainees were charged in St. Petersburg in connection with an attempted terrorist attack at the Roks Club nightclub. The charges were brought under Art. 30, paragraph "a" part 2 of Art. 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (attempted terrorist act committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy). All three defendants have been taken into custody. Sources Failed terrorists charged in St. Petersburg // RBC St. Petersburg. 2007. November 21.

On November 20, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the legality of the decision to liquidate the organization "Scientology Center" in St. Petersburg. In July, the decision to liquidate the Center was made by the St. Petersburg City Court, which satisfied the suit of the city prosecutor. Scientologists intend to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. Sources The Supreme Court confirmed the liquidation of the Scientology Center in St. Petersburg // Regions.ru. 2007.

Within the framework of the regional comprehensive target program "Development of Culture of the Nizhny Novgorod Region for 2006-2010", the government of the Nizhny Novgorod Region allocated funds for the restoration of the Old Believers' church. The construction and industrial enterprise "Restorer" will produce 70 glazed tiles for the Kazan Church of the Malinovsky Skete in the village. Filippovskoe Borsky district. The temple is a monument of history and culture of regional significance.

The head of the Omsk kazyyat, Anarbek Zhunusov, a member of the presidium of the Russian Islamic Heritage movement, called on Muslims in the upcoming parliamentary elections on December 2 to vote for Vladimir Putin, who heads the list of United Russia. "I am convinced that the Muslims of the Omsk region will come to the polls and cast their vote for Putin," A. Zhunusov said. He himself is a confidant of the United Russia party.

Beginning October 10, 2007, Pyshminskiye Vesti, a regional newspaper published in the Sverdlovsk region, came under close scrutiny by local police and prosecutors, who found signs of extremism in jokes published on an app called I vote! These are two electoral anecdotes downloaded from the Internet, in one of which voters are asked to vote for one of three candidates whose characteristics are given but not named.

On November 19, the Russian State University for the Humanities (RGGU) hosted a scientific-practical conference "Religious Freedom as a Way to Overcome Religious Intolerance". The organizers are the Center for the Study of Religions of the Russian State Humanitarian University and the Eurasian Branch of the International Association for Religious Freedom (JAO MARS).

On November 20, the Ordzhonikidzevsky District Court of Ufa began the trial of the case of Imam Said Baiburin. He is charged under part 1 of article 280 (“Public calls for extremist activity”) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Only three people were admitted to the meeting, chaired by Justice of the Peace Galina Vereshchak. Bailiffs did not allow people with beards or in Muslim clothes to enter the building.