According to the Council of Muftis of Russia, on the night of February 8, a mosque burned down in Shuya, Ivanovo region. There were no casualties. The fire is believed to have been caused by arson. The Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Ivanovo Region clarified that this is a non-residential wooden house belonging to the Ivanovo Muslim Cultural Society. Muslim worship services were held there. "There has never been a mosque in Shuya," told Interfax .

In the north of Moscow, on the street. Young naturalists were injured with a knife by a cleric of the church of St. Mitrofan of Voronezh Anatoly Nagorny. "The man stabbed the priest from behind with a knife in the neck and, without taking any action to rob, ran away," a representative of the information department of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of Moscow told RIA Novosti . The victim was able to independently return to the church and call the police and doctors.

In Ryazan, near the city administration building on the street. Radishchev and at the monument to Evpatiy Kolovrat on the street. Postovaya held two pickets in support of the Ryazan Kremlin museum-reserve. Two protests attracted 40 people. The picketers called on the authorities to make an informed decision about the fate of the Kremlin and collected signatures in support of the museum.

On February 7, at the Orthodox Medical Gymnasium, a meeting was held between the assistant prosecutor of the Vyborg district of St. Petersburg, Maria Eremenko, with a lawyer and parents of students. M. Eremenko reported that the prosecutor’s office has no claims against the educational institution, but did not provide a document confirming this.

On February 8, 2008, it became known that in Moscow, on Kaspiyskaya Street, a 20-year-old resident of Penza, suspected of killing a citizen of Tajikistan in December 2004, was detained. "According to investigators, the detainee, who was 17 years old at the time of the crime, was a member of one of the groups of skinheads engaged in attacks in the south of the capital on people of Asian appearance," Moscow's law enforcement agencies said . The detainee was arrested by court order.

And about. Minister of Education of the Penza Region Svetlana Kopeshkina refuted the statement of Archbishop of Penza and Kuznetsk Filaret (Karagodin) about the inclusion of “Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture” as a compulsory subject in the curriculum of schools in the region. “There can be no compulsory study of Orthodoxy in our curriculum,” she told Kommersant . According to S. Kopeshkina, we can only talk about optional teaching of this course and permission to operate Orthodox Sunday schools.

Member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, Director of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences Valery Tishkov recalled the need to observe the principle of freedom of conscience when teaching disciplines devoted to the fundamentals of religion in schools. “When studying religious subjects at school, the principle of respect and the possibility of other worldviews must be observed. There should be no insults towards other religions,” V.

On February 7, 2008, the Supreme Court of Karelia began a hearing on a criminal case against Deputy Chief of the Public Security Militia of the Republican Ministry of Internal Affairs, Militia Colonel Viktor Vysokikh, who led a special operation of law enforcement agencies to suppress riots in the city of Kondopoga in the autumn of 2006.

On February 4, 2008, the Kalininsky District Court of St. Petersburg sent for additional investigation the case of a 20-year-old young man who shot from a car window at a group of foreigners at a bus stop. As a result of the attack, 28-year-old Colombian citizen Camilo Olarte was seriously injured. The shooter is charged with disorderly conduct. The attacker confessed to the crime. He denies a nationalist motive in his actions. However, according to the victim, "he fired three times.

On the night of February 6-7, 2008, young people suspected of murdering an Uzbek citizen were detained in Mytishchi (Moscow region). "Two residents of Mytishchi were detained by operatives at their place of residence. During a search in their apartments, police officers found nationalist paraphernalia, clothing and relevant literature ," said a representative of the criminal police of the Moscow region. According to other sources, there were three detainees aged 20-22.

On February 8, 2008, it became known that an investigative-operational group had been formed at the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate to investigate the recent increase in the number of murders of labor migrants. The group was headed by MUR employee Vyacheslav Sovkov. Recall that on February 6, 2008, was killed a 30-year-old citizen of Kyrgyzstan, Kanaybek Zhoroev, in Moscow. He died from 30 stab wounds.

On February 8, the State Duma approved in the third reading amendments to the laws "On Education" and "On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations" in terms of licensing and accreditation of spiritual educational institutions. The bill allows religious educational institutions to conduct educational activities on the basis of state educational standards. Graduates of educational institutions will receive state diplomas without the image of the coat of arms.

The Prosecutor's Office of the North-Eastern District of Moscow found extremism in Alexander Ermakov's historical work "Armorers of the Nation. The Wehrmacht in Nazi Germany", published in 2006 by Yauza and Eksmo publishing houses. This book was found during a search of a certain "member of an extremist community" accused in one of the cases investigated by the prosecutor's office, and sent for examination to the Psychological Institute of the Russian Academy of Education.

In early February 2008, the Magistrate's Court of the Vakhitovsky District of Kazan sentenced 18-year-old culinary school student Roman Goryachev, who was accused of vandalism and assault on a citizen of Burundi. The young man fully admitted his guilt and petitioned for consideration of his case in a special manner - without a trial. Criminal prosecution of R. Goryachev under Art. 115 (causing minor bodily harm) was terminated due to the statute of limitations.

On February 2, Alexander Dziuba, a Ukrainian Protestant pastor and representative of the Triumphant Zion Church, was expelled from Russia. He was detained at Sheremetyevo-1 airport and then sent on a return flight to Kyiv. A representative of the border service told the priest that his stay in Russia was undesirable. Recall that in 2006 another Protestant pastor from Ukraine, Sunday Adelaja, was banned from entering Russia. Sources Vitaly Bely. WHO IS NEXT?