On December 10, "anti-sectarian" programs went on the air of the Rossiya TV channel and the Third Channel. The "duty unit" on the TV channel "Russia" and "Gorod" on the Third Channel talked about the fact that "sects" zombify people, take away property and commit other illegal actions. It was about the Orthodox Church of the Mother of God Sovereign, Pentecostals and the Society for Krishna Consciousness. These organizations were placed on a par with the Satanists.

On December 11, 2007, the city court of St. Petersburg at a preliminary hearing decided to cancel the decision to suspend the newspaper's activities. Let us recall that the decision to suspend the publication of the newspaper was adopted by the city court on November 29 as a measure to secure a lawsuit to close the newspaper on the basis of two warnings about the inadmissibility of extremist activity. See also our commentary on this case.

On the evening of December 10, two masked armed men broke into the house of a 44-year-old resident of Khasavyurt, whose wife is engaged in fortune-telling. One of the criminals said that fortune-telling deserves death, after which he shot the woman 8 times. The victim was taken to the hospital with gunshot wounds. On the same day, in the village of Endireyaul, Khasavyurt district, two masked men entered the house of a 49-year-old fortune teller.

On December 10, the head of the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography, Mikhail Shvydkoy, fired the director of the Ryazan Kremlin historical and architectural museum-reserve, Lyudmila Maksimova, due to an unresolved property dispute with the Ryazan diocese. “Yesterday I was forced to fire the director of the Ryazan Museum, because not looking for a compromise is the wrong way,” M. Shvydkoy said at a press conference on December 11.

From November 29 to December 1, 2007 in Petrozavodsk (Karelia) a conference "Youth in support of the ideas of tolerance" was held. It was organized by the Center for Interethnic Cooperation, the Ministry of National Policy and Relations with Religious Associations of the Republic of Karelia and the pan-European network UNITED for Intercultural Action. The conference was held within the framework of the interregional information session "Towards Excellence: A Culture of Peace and Harmony".

On the evening of December 9, 2007, in the city of Volokolamsk (Moscow region), an attack was carried out on a dormitory where 39 workers from the DPRK lived. Around 20:30 o'clock. a group of 30 young people aged 20-24, armed with wooden bats and rubber sticks, broke into an abandoned building on the street. Titov, which was used as a dormitory by citizens of the DPRK working on the construction of a multi-storey residential building. After the beating, the attackers fled the crime scene.

According to the head of the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography, Mikhail Shvydkoy, the state should allocate more funds for the restoration of churches. "On the one hand, budget funding for the restoration of cultural heritage sites has increased tenfold in recent years, but the figure is needed dozens of times more. Restoration is a very expensive business," he said on December 11 at a press conference in Moscow.

On December 7, 2007, the Saratov Arbitration Court annulled a warning against extremist activity given to the New Times in Saratov newspaper for its publication titled "The Triumph of the Will." Recall that a warning was issued to the newspaper for a publication on the conflict at the Saratov State University. SGU intends to appeal against the decision of the court, and Rossvyazokhrankultura will decide on the appeal after receiving the decision of the arbitration court.

On December 11, 2007, the case of the explosion at the Cherkizovsky market in Moscow on August 21, 2006 was transferred to the Moscow City Court. "The criminal case has been submitted to the Moscow City Court for consideration on its merits ," Anna Usacheva, head of the court's press service, said. A hearing date has not yet been set.

On December 9, in Naberezhnye Chelny, the FSB and the prosecutor's office searched the apartment of Marat Tamimdarov, the translator of the theologian Said Nursi's books. At first, representatives of the prosecutor's office and the local FSB tried to enter Tamimdarov's apartment under the guise of plumbers, and when this failed, under the guise of firefighters, they cut out the iron door with an autogenous gun. Once in the apartment, they said they were looking for extremist literature.