Thanks to the petitions of the Minister of the Republic of Karelia for National Policy and Relations with Religious Associations and the local branch of the United Russia party, the Muslims of the city of Kostomuksha were allowed to complete the procedure for processing all the necessary documents to resolve the issue of building a mosque.

On January 16, 2007, in the Khoroshevsky Court of Moscow yesterday, consideration of the case on the publication of Boris Mironov's book "The Jewish Yoke" began. Recall that the book was published in May 2007. In October 2007, the Savyolovsky Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office of Moscow sent an application to the Khoroshevsky District Court for the recognition of the book "Jewish Yoke" as extremist.

On January 16, 2008, the NBP sent an application to the Moscow City Court for reconsideration of the party's ban due to newly discovered circumstances. The circumstances are that one of the grounds on which the party was recognized as extremist has disappeared. Namely, on November 28, 2007, in St.

In December 2007, in Khabarovsk, after a rally near the regional musical theater, the chairman of the Khabarovsk department of the Union of the Russian People (SRN) Pavel Onoprienko and his deputy Viktor Chulkin were detained. On January 17, 2008, a search was conducted in the apartments of Onoprienko and Chulkin, during which a computer, disks, flash drives, books, newspapers, and the flag of the Union of the Russian People were seized.

On January 17, 2008, the investigative department of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for the Altai Territory completed the investigation of a criminal case on charges of 3 young residents of Biysk of committing murders motivated by ethnic hatred. The criminal case was transferred to the court of the city of Biysk. Young people were charged under paragraph "a" part 2 of Art.

On December 27, 2007, the Sergiev Posad prosecutor's office terminated the criminal case against the Cossacks of the Sergiev Posad stanitsa Cossack society due to the expiration of the statute of limitations for prosecution under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity) Recall that a criminal case was initiated on the fact of the publication and distribution of Ataman Dutov's appeal

On January 17, 2008, the regional prosecutor's office sent to the Omsk Regional Court a criminal case against Alexander Lazarev, Maksim Kiyko, and two minors accused of murdering Nikolai Kharitonov, a native of Ukraine, motivated by national hatred, "who they mistook for a native of the Caucasus." Young people are charged under par. "g", "l" part 2 tbsp.

appeared on the radio station "Russian News Service" A new author's program "The Hour of Trust" , which will be hosted in turn by Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin and Priest Andrei Lorgus. "The main task of the program is to help people in difficult life situations through a confidential conversation that will be useful not only to the caller, but also to a wide radio audience," Father Vsevolod Chaplin told Interfax on Thursday.

On January 17, 2008, the results of the work of the prosecutor's office of the Sverdlovsk region "on supervision over the implementation of legislation on countering extremist activity" for 2007 were published. According to the prosecutor's office, in 2007 7 crimes of an "extremist orientation" were registered, for which criminal cases were initiated. 17 persons were brought to criminal responsibility in these cases.

On January 17, VTsIOM published data from a survey conducted on August 25-26, 2007 among 1,600 people in 153 settlements in 46 regions, territories and republics of Russia. The purpose of this study was to find out why more and more Russians are interested in religion and how relations between the state and the Orthodox Church in Russia should be built.

St. Petersburg human rights activist Igor Mikhailov demanded that Governor Valentina Matvienko check the legality of the actions of officials who do not allow prayer standing with processions from the Cathedral of the Savior on Blood to the Kazan Cathedral, which traditionally take place three times a year on the days of memory of the family of Nicholas II.