On December 17, the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (FEOR) and the Russian Ministry of Defense entered into an agreement on the presence of rabbis in military units of seven military districts. Their work will be coordinated by the head of the Department for Interaction with Law Enforcement Agencies and FEOR, Rabbi Aaron Gurevich. “According to our data, about 18 thousand Jews serve in the Russian army. These are both commanders and ordinary soldiers,” said A. Gurevich.

On December 19, 2007, preliminary hearings were held in the Moscow City Court in the case of the explosion at the Cherkizovsky market. The meeting began three hours late due to the search for an explosive device, an anonymous call about which was received at 10:30. - right before the start of the meeting. An inspection of the premises by specialists with dogs showed that the warning was false. The court granted the lawyers' request to have the case heard by a jury.

On December 19, the Central District Court of Chelyabinsk convicted four Hizb ut-Tahrir activists Vadim Khabirov, Airat Lukmanov, Ruslan Abdrashitov and Rinat Galiullin. All of them were found guilty of committing a crime under Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“participation in the activities of an extremist organization”). At the same time, only one of the defendants was sentenced to real imprisonment - 1 year and 3 months in a colony-settlement.

On December 18, the Public Committee in Defense of the Ryazan Kremlin Museum-Reserve issued an appeal to the residents of Ryazan in connection with the situation around the museum. We publish the text of the appeal in full.

The Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Orel canceled the registration of the Dozor newspaper, whose editor-in-chief Yevgeny Shilin is charged under Art. 282 ("inciting hatred or enmity, as well as the humiliation of human dignity" on religious and national grounds). The investigation into this case has been completed and transferred to the Zavodskoy District Court of Orel.

On December 18, 2007, by decision of the Zheleznodorozhny District Court of the city of Orel, the registration of the Dozor newspaper was canceled, the editor-in-chief of which, Yevgeny Shilin, leader of the Oryol DPNI, is currently under judicial investigation under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred using the media). It should be reminded that since November 12, 2007, the trial on E.

On December 18, 2007, it became known that the Department for the Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for the Udmurt Republic initiated a criminal case on the fact of desecration of a Jewish community center with anti-Semitic inscriptions in early November 2007. The case was initiated under Part 1 of Art . .

On the evening of December 18, 2007, in Moscow, in the park near the Ice Palace "Megasport" on Khodynka (the metro station "Polezhaevskaya", "Dynamo") before the rap concert of the African-American group "50 Sent" (Fifty Sent) 15 Nazi -skinheads attacked 3 rap music fans (rappers) on their way to the concert and beat them with iron rods. According to witnesses, the attackers were wearing camouflage uniforms.