On April 22, 2008, at the request of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Kirov Region, the provider blocked access to the website of the Vyatsky Observer newspaper. The reason was a comment left on the site's forum, in which the police saw insults against a member of the government, which can be classified under several articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

The Spiritual Board of Muslims of Karelia opposes the visit of Boris Moiseev to the republic. In this regard, they sent an appeal to the Minister for National Policy and Relations with Religious Associations Andrei Manin, the Russian Islamic Heritage reports . The document says that Muslims consider Moiseev's arrival "an open challenge to society thrown by this preacher of Sodomy, an ideologue of corruption.

On April 22, 2008, the Supreme Court of Karelia confirmed the acquittal of the jury, which found not guilty the deputy head of the public security police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Karelia, Viktor Vysokikh, who was accused of negligence in connection with the mass riots in Kondopoga in 2006.

On April 22, 2008, the details of the case on the recognition of the extremist article by G. Znamensky "Orange Flask" published in the Severny Dvinsk newspaper "Severny Rabochiy" on July 8, 2006 became known. Let us recall that on January 15, 2007, the Severodvinsk city court (Arkhangelsk region) recognized the article as extremist material. The decision of the court was challenged by the editors and in March 2007 was canceled by the regional court.

On March 22, the pastor of the United Methodist Church of Smolensk, Alexander Vtorov, sent a second appeal to the prosecutor of the Smolensk region, Verkhovtsev Yu.

On April 22, at a press conference in Moscow, employees of the All-Russian Research Institute (VNII) of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs stated that they associate religious extremism to a large extent with satanic sects, Interfax reports . In their opinion, Satanist organizations are distributed mainly in large cities and are often closely associated with extremist organizations and use their services.

The department for interaction with the criminal correctional system of the Nizhny Novgorod diocese before Easter is holding an action to collect Easter gifts for convicts serving sentences in the colonies of the Nizhny Novgorod region. "Convicted colonies are always in need of basic necessities - underwear, socks, soap, toothpaste.

April 23 Chairman of the Public Committee for the Protection of Freedom of Conscience Fr. Gleb Yakunin sent an open letter to the President of Russia, reports Portal-Credo.ru . In this document, he draws attention to "the illegal activities of the Minister of Culture and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation Alexander Sokolov, connected with the violation of the principles of freedom of conscience and dangerous for Russian culture." O. G.

In Blagoveshchensk, unknown attackers desecrated a monument to an Orthodox missionary of the 19th century, the enlightener of Siberia, the Far East and America, St. Innokenty (Veniaminov), Interfax reports on April 23 . The local diocese said that vandals damaged the base of the monument and stole the cast iron railing. In addition, the pedestal of the monument was covered with a marker. The diocese hopes for the help of city entrepreneurs in the restoration of the monument.

In mid-April 2008, the trial of Aleksey Napylov and Tatyana Guzayeva began in Tolyatti, who were distributing leaflets calling in defense of servicemen Yevgeny Khudyakov and Sergei Arakcheev. They are charged with Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred). The case is being heard in the court of Togliatti. Recall that the leafleters were detained in Togliatti in Victory Park in May 2007. Based on internet blogs.

We publish official statistics on criminal cases under Art. 280 (calls for extremist activity), 282 (incitement of ethnic hatred), 282-1 (organization of an extremist community) and 282-2 (participation in an organization recognized by a court as extremist) for 2007 (data from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, provided at a press conference of the All-Russian Research Institute Ministry of Internal Affairs "Public danger of extremism: theoretical and practical assessment").

In March 2008, a list of a number of judges of the Supreme Court of Russia appeared on right-wing radical websites, indicating their home addresses and veiled threats against them. Later, the list was supplemented with personal data of a number of high-ranking employees of the prosecutor's office, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as well as public figures and scientists involved in various aspects of the manifestation of xenophobia in Russia. In total, this list includes about 50 people.

On April 22, 2008, a press conference "Public danger of extremism: theoretical and practical assessment" was held at the All-Russian Research Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The press conference was attended by the head of the All-Russian Research Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Major General of Militia Sergey Girko, the chief research officers of the institute, professors Igor Sundiev and Yuri Antonyan. In his opening speech, S.

On April 22, Nikolai Sushkov, head of the department for ensuring passport and registration work of the Russian Federal Migration Service for Moscow, said that approximately 14,000 Muscovites continue to live with a USSR passport of the 1974 model, Interfax reports . Of these fourteen thousand, 349 Muscovites did not change their passports for ideological reasons, and 669 for religious reasons.