In the village of Znamensk in the Gvardeisky district of the Kaliningrad region, unknown people staged a pogrom in an Orthodox church in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "The Sign", Interfax reports . Several vandals, having broken windows, made their way into the building on the night of August 25. The perpetrators caused significant damage. In particular, they threw the Gospel on the floor at the altar.

On August 21, a meeting of the diocesan council of the Tver diocese was held. It was decided that the diocese would provide material assistance to the residents of South Ossetia, Blagovest-info reports . 100 thousand rubles are allocated for the needs of the victims. Sources The diocese of Tver announced the allocation of 100 thousand rubles to help the inhabitants of South Ossetia // Blagovest-info. 2008. August 26.

The authorities of Voronezh have allocated three sites for the construction of hotel and pilgrimage centers to the diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, Portal-Credo.ru reports . One of the sites is located next to the Intercession Cathedral. Earlier, the regional prosecutor's office protested the decision of the Voronezh mayor's office to build a residential complex next to the cathedral.

On August 14, the commandant of the Krasnaya Etna cemetery, having come to work, discovered that unknown people had knocked over several dozen tombstones, Komsomolskaya Pravda reports . The police found the culprits. They were teenagers between the ages of 10 and 13. The perpetrators have not yet reached the age of criminal responsibility, so immediately after the arrest, the policemen handed over to their parents. Now the latter will have to pay for the repair of the desecrated tombstones.

On August 26, 2008, the Supreme Court of Russia on cassation of the prosecutor's office overturned the acquittal of Colonel Vladimir Kvachkov, Alexander Naidenov and Robert Yashin, suspected of attempting to kill Anatoly Chubais. Recall that the acquittal was delivered on June 16, 2008 on the basis of the jury's verdict. During the process, the jury was dissolved twice and only the third of its composition delivered a verdict, which turned out to be acquittal. After the acquittal, A.

In the village of Zasechnoye in the Penza region, Muslims have achieved the abolition of teaching the basics of Orthodox culture in local schools, Islamnews news agency reports . In 2008, local administration officials, in connection with the Renaissance project, approved the teaching of OPK from grades 1 to 11 as part of a compulsory educational course.

On the night of July 31, in the Begunitsy village in the Leningrad region, seven Chinese workers were beaten and robbed. At 3 a.m. that night three attackers broke into a vocational school where the workers lived, and cruely beat them up and robbed them of 6,800 rubles (about ┬180), six cell phones, 18 pairs of shoes, 18 pairs of jeans, and 6 jackets.

On August 20, 2008, Oleg Sym, a Russian national of Korean origin and student of the Tula State University, was beaten. According to the victim, he was approached at the bus stop by one man with his head shaved, who tried to provoke a fight. When Sym tried to run away, five or six more men attacked him. The attack was very rapid: after striking Sym several times with the emergency hammer available in busses for breaking the windows in case of an accident, the attackers ran away.

In St. Petersburg on Silver Boulevard on August 25, a 23-year-old native of Tuva, who worked in the O'Key hypermarket, was killed. His body, with multiple stab wounds, was found at about ten o'clock in the evening on 25 August. According to the main version of law enforcement agencies, the murder was the result of a domestic quarrel - the young man quarreled with two men who used the knife. However, one of the St.

On August 26, bailiffs of Karelia evicted Filipp Muskevich, a resident of Valaam Island, and his family from the premises of the refectory of the Resurrection (Red) Skete, Interfax reports . Earlier, the court rejected the complaint of F. Muskevich, who challenged the decision to evict. The Republican Department of the Federal Bailiff Service provided information that the eviction took about three hours. At the same time, the bailiffs did not meet any resistance, except for closed doors. F.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Saratov has fined the head of a local bookstore 2,000 rubles in which Islamic literature included in the Federal List of Extremist Materials was found on the shelves, Interfax reports .