According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs , about 2.3 million Russians took part in Christmas services from January 6 to 7. "Festive services were held in 8,100 temples, churches and monasteries throughout the country," the press center of the Russian Interior Ministry said. In Moscow , according to the information of the Moscow Department of Internal Affairs, 23,000 people visited churches on Christmas night. However, Utro.ru gives other data: 60 thousand people.

On December 30, 2007, in Moscow, on Pererva Street, 3 young men, who looked 20-25 years old, dressed in black, attacked a native of Armenia, a driver of a private taxi. The attackers, having pushed the driver out of the car, beat him with baseball bats and mangled the car. They then fled the scene. It was not possible to detain young people in hot pursuit.

On January 2, a jury delivered a guilty verdict in case . the Islamic Jamaat "According to the jury, all 17 defendants are guilty of committing various crimes, but in a number of cases some of the defendants are not guilty of committing certain crimes charged to the whole group," said Ravil Vakhitov, senior assistant to the prosecutor of Tatarstan.

On the morning of January 1, there was another attack on a Muslim prayer house in Sergiev Posad. Unknown persons threw Molotov cocktails at the building. According to the imam-mukhtasib of the Moscow region, Arslan Sadriev, there were no casualties, the building suffered significant damage, and the car of one of the parishioners was burned. The police squad that was called did not arrive at the scene.

On January 1, 2008, in Sergeev Posad, unknown persons threw Molotov cocktails at the building of a Muslim prayer house. This was reported by the imam-mukhtasib of the Moscow region, Arslan Sadriev. Fortunately, no one was injured, but the building suffered significant damage. The car of one of the parishioners was also burned. The police squad that was called never arrived at the scene. The Council of Muftis of Russia is considering the possibility of making an official statement on this matter.

On January 2, in the Church of the Apostle Thomas on Kantemirovskaya (Moscow), courses of street Orthodox missionaries began to work. The initiator of the creation of the courses is the rector of this temple, the priest Daniil Sysoev, who is engaged in missionary work in a non-Orthodox environment. It is expected that the missionaries trained in the courses will preach among representatives of the NRM and guest workers.

On January 7, 2008, in St. Petersburg, in the Nevsky district, a citizen of Uzbekistan, 22-year-old Khasan Varkaev, was killed. His body with stab wounds to the chest, on the face and multiple abrasions on the face was found at about 20:00 in the 2nd Rabfakovsky Lane. The criminal case was initiated under Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder). Sources Citizen of Uzbekistan killed in Obukhovo // IMA-press. 2008. January 8.

On January 4, 2008, at about 6:00 pm, a native of Dagestan was killed in Moscow. A body with a craniocerebral injury and numerous stab wounds was found near one of the houses on the street. 2nd Vladimirskaya. "A cell phone, as well as a wallet and a passport of the deceased were seized from the scene of the incident, which gave reason to the police officers to conclude that this murder was not committed for the purpose of robbery," the Interior Ministry said .

On December 24, 2007, the "Voice of Beslan" committee received a notification from the prosecutor's office of Ingushetia that one of their materials contained signs of extremism, namely "the deliberately false accusation of President Putin V.V. of complicity in terrorism and that he became the guarantor for criminals . " On January 15, 2008, at a meeting of the Federal Court of the Nazran District of Ingushetia, a decision was made to transfer the case to North Ossetia.

On January 7, 2008, a 20-year-old citizen of Zambia, a first-year student at one of Moscow universities, was beaten by unknown persons in a subway car in Moscow. A group of 4 young men and 2 girls (appearing to be about 25 years old) approached a citizen of Zambia and started beating him for no apparent reason. The attackers fled the scene, leaving the car at the Tretyakovskaya station. The victim was not robbed. A foreign student has a concussion and facial hematomas.

Falun Gong practitioners, who were detained in March 2007 in Moscow in front of the Chinese Embassy during protests, filed a lawsuit in June 2007 with the Nikulinsky District Court of Moscow. The applicants dispute the actions of the prefecture of the South-Western Administrative District, which refused to approve the action near the Chinese Embassy, ​​and the officers of the Ramenki police department, who detained 22 picketers.

The administration of the Omsk region decided to acquire the Assumption Cathedral into regional ownership. He will be in the operational management of the regional ministry of culture. The cathedral, blown up in 1935, was restored on the initiative of the governor Leonid Polezhaev. Sources The Assumption Cathedral, revived in Omsk, was taken under protection and for the maintenance of the state // Patriarchy.ru. 2007. January 3rd.