Governor of the Tver region Dmitry Zelenin and Archbishop of Tver and Kashinsky Victor signed an agreement on the transfer of the building of the Church of the Presentation to the Staritsky Holy Dormition Monastery. For 90 years, the temple building housed a local history museum, for which a new building was built with funds allocated from the federal budget.

On August 25, at a meeting of the Judicial Collegium for Civil Cases of the Samara Regional Court on a cassation complaint from an employee of the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, Aydin Alizade, who challenged the decision to close the website "Islam as it is" as extremist. Recall that this site was recognized as extremist because of the publication of the brochure "Navruz Holiday and Islamic Doctrine." During the meeting, the prosecutor withdrew his complaint.

On August 28, 2008, in Nizhny Novgorod, consideration of the case of several acts of vandalism at the Krasnaya Etna cemetery began. 18-year-old student of one of the Nizhny Novgorod technical schools Yevgeny Alyoshin is accused of being. that in May-June 2008 he destroyed 19 headstones on Jewish graves. One of the witnesses claims that the defendant motivated his actions by the fact that he "simply does not like Jews .

On August 26, 2008, a suspect was detained in Perm for committing a series of racist attacks using firearms that occurred in the city in August 2008. The suspect was detained by accident - he was passing by the city police department and was identified by police officers from an identikit. The detainee is a 28-year-old Perm resident who had not previously come to the attention of the police.

On August 29, the Tagansky Court of Moscow suspended for an indefinite period the trial of the organizers of the exhibition “Forbidden Art 2006” Yuri Samodurov and Andrei Erofeev. The meeting was postponed because A. Erofeev is in the hospital with a spinal injury. Let us remind you that Yu. Samodurov and A. Erofeev are accused under Part 2 of Art.

Head of the Department of State Policy and Legal Regulation in Education of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Tatyana Petrova, in an interview with Interfax, commented on the situation with the study of religious disciplines in secondary schools. T.

Interfax published data from a monitoring conducted by the Ministry of Education on the prevalence of religious studies and religious subjects in Russian schools. The leader in this area is the Belgorod region, where 141 thousand schoolchildren were taught these disciplines in the 2007/2008 academic year. In second and third place are Chechnya (more than 93 thousand schoolchildren) and Ingushetia (more than 34 thousand).

The Russian Ministry of Justice has again updated the Federal List of Extremist Materials. As of August 29, 2008, paragraphs 232-255 were added to it. which came across to us at one time, without exception, all contained aggressive anti-Semitic materials - ed. ) and several materials of the National Power Party of Russia (NDPR).

On August 28-29, 2008, law enforcement agencies in St. Petersburg seized the circulation of two left-wing newspapers in order to check their content "for extremism." It all started with the fact that on the evening of August 27, during the distribution of the samizdat newspaper "For Workers' Power! Marxistskaya Gazeta" was detained by Aleksey Drozdov, whose forces this newspaper comes out (the publication is a left-wing radical samizdat leaflet, has existed since 2007.

In August 2008, several attacks with firearms were committed in the central regions of Perm. At least three people were injured as a result of these attacks, one of them is in intensive care. In addition, in the same area of ​​the city, the body of a man was discovered, shot in the back. The first attack took place on August 10 (according to other sources, August 15) in the Industrial district of the city. The man was seriously wounded by a large-caliber hunting bullet.

In August 2008, the "Monument of Russian-Georgian Friendship" by Zurab Tsereteli was attacked by vandals. The monument is a column of soldered letters of the Russian and Georgian alphabets, surrounded by pedestals with metal sheets on which the texts of Georgian and Russian poets are reproduced. At least one of these metal sheets was knocked down and the vandals clearly intended to continue what they had begun - a crowbar was hidden nearby, which, apparently, they were wielding.

24-year-old girl) At the end of August 2008, an investigation was completed in St. Petersburg and a case was sent to the Nevsky District Court against three Petersburgers (young people aged 22 and 28 and a April of the current year. From the very beginning, the neo-Nazi nature of the crime was not in doubt - the attackers shouted racist slogans, showed swastika tattoos to the victims. Petersburgers are charged under paragraph "a" part 2 of Art.

On August 29, 2008, the Blagoveshchensk city court sentenced Roman Elizov, coordinator of the regional branch of the DPNI, accused of producing and distributing nationalist newspapers. The court found the 22-year-old right-wing radical, who headed the Amur branch of the Russian Club , which recently became part of the DPNI, guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“inciting national hatred”).

On August 29, in the Ingush village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya, an unknown person fired several shots at the imam of the central mosque, Yahya Makhloev. The elderly imam is hospitalized. The perpetrator fled the scene. Recall that this is not the first attempt on the lives of imams in Ingushetia. Sources The imam of the central mosque of the Ingush village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya was hospitalized as a result of shelling // Interfax-religion. 2008. August 29.

From September 1, in Grozny, by decision of the mayor's office, a ban on the sale of alcoholic beverages is introduced until the end of the month of Ramadan. The ban applies to “trade and public catering enterprises in Grozny, regardless of their organizational and legal form.” In addition, during the fast, the work of public catering establishments is suspended during daylight hours (during fasting, Muslims are prohibited from eating from sunrise to sunset).