On December 17, 2007 in Moscow at about 21:30 in the vicinity of the Proletarskaya metro station, 2 young people (a young man and a girl) for no apparent reason sprayed from gas canisters into the faces of dark-skinned young people entering the subway (3 girls and 2 young people) and fled the scene. Fortunately, the young people were not badly hurt. After some time, the victims gave chase. However, how the incident ended, unfortunately, the witnesses do not know. Own inf.

On December 18, 2007, the Supreme Court upheld the sentence handed down by the Moscow City Court to 3 Nazi skinheads who committed two attacks (on citizens of Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan ) and the murder of a citizen of Kyrgyzstan . The cassation appeal was rejected, the verdict was upheld. Recall that Sergei Beryakov was sentenced under paragraph "g, l" part 2 of Art.

In 2007, the writer Yury Petukhov appealed to the Constitutional Court of Russia with a demand to recognize the provisions of Articles 1 and 13 of the Federal Law "On Counteracting Extremist Activity", which establish a list of basic concepts used for the purposes of this Federal Law, and determine responsibility, as inconsistent with a number of articles of the Russian Constitution for distributing extremist materials.

On December 14, policemen in St. Petersburg attempted to arrest Jamaliddin Makhmutov, deputy chairman of the local organization Al Fatah, which leads to the Council of Muftis of Russia. The police squad was summoned by the chairman of the Regional Spiritual Administration of Muslims of St. Petersburg (part of the Central Muslim Spiritual Directorate) Dzhafer Ponchaev, who asked the police officers to arrest D. Makhmutov for distributing religious literature. According to eyewitnesses, D.

The Chairman of the Association of Cultural and Educational Public Associations "Assembly" Mukhamed Salakhetdinov proposed officially declaring two Muslim holidays - Eid al-Adha and Eid al-Adha - as days off. "Today, in a number of Muslim republics of the Russian Federation: Ingushetia, Dagestan, and others, the two main holidays of Islam are officially declared non-working days. However, Muslims from other regions of our country do not have such an opportunity.

On December 16, 2007, at about 10:00 p.m. in Moscow, at the Kursky railway station, a pneumatic weapon was fired at the “Mercy” bus, which was carrying out a routine night raid, the purpose of which is to provide assistance to the homeless (this is a project of the commission on church social activities under the Diocesan Council of Moscow) . In a minute and a half, the unknown attacker fired about ten times. The homeless people and mission staff inside the bus were not injured.

*We are publishing the text of the Decree of the Constitutional Court of December 18, 2007 regarding the complaint of the writer Yury Petukhov , whose books were recognized as extremist materials. In connection with this ban, in 2007, Yu. Petukhov tried to challenge the provisions of Articles 1 and 13 of the Federal Law "On countering extremist activity" in the Constitutional Court as contradicting the provisions on freedom of conscience and expression laid down in the Russian Constitution.

A group of residents of Nizhny Novgorod sent an appeal to the governor, regional prosecutor, Archbishop of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas Georgy with a demand to initiate a criminal case against the Coca-Cola company on the fact of desecration of shrines, the images of which were used in Coca-Cola advertising.

On December 17, the pastors of Evangelical churches in Obninsk appealed to Metropolitan Kliment (Kapalin) of Kaluga and Borovsk in connection with the "anti-sectarian" booklets that appeared in the city. Here is the text of the letter in full.

At the annual diocesan meeting of the Moscow diocese held on December 17, Metropolitan Yuvenaly (Poyarkov) of Krutitsy and Kolomna announced the statistical data. According to him, as of December 2007, the diocese includes 42 deanery districts, where 1074 parishes are registered, 18 of which were formed in 2007. At the same time, there are 1271 temples, of which 428 are ascribed. 1209 clerics serve in the diocese, 89 of them are deacons.

On December 18, 2007, the investigative department for the Leninsky administrative district of Tyumen of the investigative department of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for the Tyumen region brought to criminal responsibility 19-year-old Sergey Shipulin, who made and pasted leaflets with "extremist content" in the city from May to July 2007 ". S. Shipulin is charged with Part 1 of Art.

Children's Music School N 58 named after Glinka in Pechatniki filed a lawsuit against the Nikolo-Perervinsky Monastery, from which it rents a building. In 1993, the complex of buildings, which included the school, was transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church under the terms of a long-term lease agreement with the school. According to the agreement, the monastery, as a landlord, should be engaged in the arrangement of the building and the territory adjacent to it.