The Spiritual Administration of Muslims was formed in Kalmykia. Sultan-Akhmed Karalaev became its chairman. The new structure was established with the support of the President of the Republic Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and became part of the Coordinating Center for Muslims of the North Caucasus. Sources The Spiritual Board of Muslims established in Kalmykia // Islam in the Russian Federation. 2008. January 23.

A cooperation agreement was signed between the Center for temporary detention of juvenile offenders under the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Republic of Karelia and the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the republic. The agreement provides for conversations, lectures on the fundamentals of Islam, joint participation of the parties in the preparation of holidays, and the provision of charitable assistance. The agreement is valid until the end of 2008 with subsequent prolongation.

The Moscow government has approved a list of objects in use by religious organizations, for the repair and restoration of which in 2008 will be allocated funds from the city budget. The list includes 15 objects: St.

In January 2008, the preliminary investigation was completed and the case of Saransk student Alexander Pyanzin , accused under Art. 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public calls for terrorist activities or public justification of terrorism). Let us recall that the case against Pyanzin was opened due to the posting of the book “Russian Cuisine. The ABC of Domestic Terrorism” on a file-sharing network, which, in particular, contains recipes for making explosives.

The Nikulinsky District Court of Moscow declared illegal the actions of employees of the "Ramenki" Department of Internal Affairs of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Western Administrative District of Moscow, who on March 25, 2007 disrupted the picket of "Falun Gong" followers. The picketers protested the persecution of practitioners in China.

Oleg Shvartsman, president and co-owner of Finansgroup, intends to finance the construction of a Hindu temple in the north of Moscow. The businessman estimates the cost of the project at $50 million. The management company Lakshmi Capital Management was established to finance the construction. Within six months, she must organize a fund, the size of which will be approximately $100 million. The required amount is expected to be raised over 5 years.

The Spiritual Board of Muslims of Chechnya intends to fight the spread of Wahhabism ideas in the media and literature. "Literature and video products of diverse content, presented on the bookshelves of Chechnya, will be subject to revision," Daud Selmurzaev, deputy chairman of the DUM, said at a meeting of the Council of Ulama and Theologians on January 23.

On January 17, 2008, a meeting of the board of the city prosecutor's office was held in Moscow under the chairmanship of the prosecutor of Moscow, Yuri Semin. The meeting was devoted to the implementation of legislation on interethnic relations and countering extremism. The prosecutor's office reported that now the most common "extremist" crime is the incitement of national hatred or enmity (Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

On January 21, 2008, Alexander Chekalin, First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, reported a three-fold increase in the number of extremist crimes in Russia over the past four years. "In 2004, 130 such crimes were committed, in 2005 - 152, in 2006 - 263, in 2007 - 356 ," A. Chekalin said. He also clarified that "mostly these are crimes committed on national or religious grounds .

*We are publishing the text of the expert opinion of the Guild of Linguists-Experts on Documentation and Information Disputes (GLEDIS) dated April 9, 2007 on one of the materials published in the Duel newspaper. The expert study was carried out at the request of Rossvyazokhrankultura and became the basis for issuing a warning to the newspaper about the violation of Art. 4 of the Mass Media Law.

On January 12, 2008, in one of the courtyards of the Leninsky district of Novosibirsk, a group of teenagers brutally beat Turkish citizen Eslen Fatih Mehmet, born in 1961, who worked in Russia as a builder of the Mega shopping center. At least one of the attackers was armed with a baseball bat. The man died from beatings. All four accused in the case have been detained . Sources A Turkish citizen was killed in Novosibirsk // Gazeta.Ru. 2008. January 23.

We are publishing the text of the decision to bring Yury Mukhin, editor-in-chief of the Duel newspaper closed by court in November 2007, as a defendant in a case of public calls for extremist activities. The reason for initiating a criminal case was the article "The Death of Russia", published in the newspaper on July 4, 2006. FOR this material in April 2007, the newspaper received a warning from Rossvyazokhrankultura (for the text of the expert opinion, see here ).

On January 21, 2008, a mass brawl between people from the Caucasus and neo-Nazis was prevented on Ryazansky Avenue in Moscow. More than 20 people, mostly immigrants from Armenia and Azerbaijan, were detained by the Ryazansky police station on the evening of January 21. Local residents turned to the police when a group of people from the Caucasus gathered in the Ryazansky Prospekt metro area began bullying passers-by.

In January 2008, there were several attacks by Nazi skinheads on anti-fascists in Bryansk. Three attacks by neo-Nazi groups on antifa are known - on January 5, 7 or 8 and 20. On January 19, a fight broke out in Bryansk between groups of Nazi skinheads and antifa. According to unverified reports, a mass brawl between neo-Nazis and antifa also took place in Lipetsk on January 12. Unfortunately, we do not know whether people were seriously injured in these clashes. Based on Internet blogs

On January 23, 2008, a report was published by the Prosecutor's Office of the Altai Territory on the results of work to combat extremism in 2007. During 2007, 4 criminal cases were initiated in the region on crimes of an "extremist nature", 3 "extremist" cases were sent to court. In one of the cases initiated by the district court of Barnaul, a guilty verdict was issued under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred or enmity).