Residents of the Ivanovo region collected about nine thousand signatures under an open letter addressed to President V. Putin, Chairman of the State Duma B. Gryzlov, Secretary of the Public Chamber of Russia E. Velikhov and Minister of Education and Science A. Fursenko in support of the inclusion of a new educational field in state standards of general education "Spiritual and moral culture" and the subject "Orthodox culture".

The Russian Orthodox Church clarified its position on the issue of teaching “Spiritual and moral culture” in secondary schools.

On December 27, at a meeting of the Holy Synod, it was decided to release Archbishop of Korsun Innocent (Vasiliev) from the temporary management of the Sourozh diocese. Bishop Elisey (Ganaba) of Bogorodsk, former vicar of the Sourozh diocese, was appointed as the new ruling bishop. Let us recall that the previous administrator of the Sourozh diocese, Bishop of Sergius Vasily (Osborne), transferred to the jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Constantinople.

On December 27, 2007, the prosecutor's office of the Novgorod region filed a lawsuit with the Novgorod City Court to recognize the file "videoprovocation.avi" as extremist with a link to a Nazi video with a scene of a brutal double murder, posted on the Internet on the server of one of the region's providers. Let us recall that on November 16, 2007, the Veliky Novgorod prosecutor’s office opened a criminal case under Part 1 of Art.

The Moscow police link the explosion at the entrance to the Okhotny Ryad shopping center on December 27 with the explosion in the Cherkizovsky market, and believe that Nazi skinheads may be involved in it. The explosion at the Okhotny Ryad shopping center on Manezhnaya Square occurred on December 27 at about 6 p.m. The explosion destroyed the pedestal of the lamppost, scattered the nearest lamps and damaged the sign above the main entrance.