The rector of the Peter and Paul Cathedral, the representative of the St. Petersburg diocese on architectural and artistic issues, Abbot Alexander (Fedorov), is concerned about the transformation of the Peter and Paul Fortress into an entertainment center. In the fall of 2007, the Committee for Culture of the Administration of St.

On January 10, 2008, the Ivanovo regional prosecutor's office in its report for the past year announced that on December 28, 2007, the criminal case on the attack on members of the Jewish community in Ivanovo was sent to court. The attackers were charged under paragraph "a" part 2 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred or enmity with the use of violence or with the threat of its use).

On January 10, 2008, the Ivanovo Regional Prosecutor's Office reported in its report for the past year that in 2007 three crimes motivated by ethnic and religious hatred and enmity were registered in the Ivanovo Region.

On January 11, 2008, Denis Vinokurov, head of the GUIN press service for the Novosibirsk region, reported that Igor Kolodezenko (leader of the Novosibirsk branch of the NDPR and editor of the Novosibirsk newspaper Rodnaya Sibir, convicted under Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) had changed the conditions of serving his sentence. From a colony-settlement in the Kemerovo region, he was sent to a general regime colony N2 near Novosibirsk. D.

The head of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Orenburg Region, Abdulbary Khairullin, is concerned about the tightening of control by the regional Department of Justice. In an interview with the Muslim Press news agency, he said that tightening control over the deadlines for submitting documents now leads to the closure of communities. This measure affected not only religious, but also other organizations, however, for religious organizations, the amount of the fine is too high.

On January 11, 2008, in Moscow, near house 23-a on Leningradskoe Highway, a group of Nazi skinheads killed a native of Uzbekistan. 29-year-old laborer Ravshan Ashirov died as a result of 79 stab wounds inflicted with knives and screwdrivers. This became known from the news about the beginning of the trial of the accused Nazi skinheads. Sources Butorina E. Hunting "White Wolves" // Time of News. 2009. September 1.