On September 16, 2008, in Veliky Novgorod, Sergey Larionov, the head of the Novgorod DPNI, was convicted in the case of posting a video with a double nationalist murder on the Internet . Larionov was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity) and sentenced to 170 hours of compulsory corrective labor. Sources The leader of the Novgorod DPNI was convicted for posting a video of the murder on the Internet // ZAKS.Ru. 2008.

On the night of September 17, 2008 in the city of Achinsk (Krasnoyarsk Territory) the Alley of Glory in Victory Park was desecrated. Unidentified people painted models of military equipment and portraits of veterans of the Great Patriotic War with paint. They were inscribed "Death to the Russians", "Russian suckers" and "Death to the whites" . The issue of initiating a criminal case under Art. 214 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (vandalism).

In mid-September 2008, in Voronezh, the case against five teenagers suspected of the nationalist murder of a 15-year-old boy was returned to the Investigation Department for additional investigation. The case was returned by the deputy prosecutor of the region to the department for the investigation of particularly important cases in connection with the identification of shortcomings in the preliminary investigation.

On the night of September 14, 2008, in the Moscow region village of Lunevo (not far from Solnechnogorsk), a domestic conflict occurred, which quickly began to turn into a pre-pogrom situation. Two construction workers insulted a convenience store saleswoman, who was defended by other visitors. The insulters turned out to be visitors from Uzbekistan, their opponents - local residents. They decided to sort things out on the street. Further versions of what happened differ somewhat.

The Main Investigation Department of the Main Department of Internal Affairs of Moscow has completed the investigation of the criminal case against the former head and chief accountant of the non-profit partnership Anti-Drug Education and Rehabilitation. Narconon Standard. According to experts, the activities of the partnership for the implementation of the Narconon program are medical and educational and should be subject to mandatory licensing, but were carried out without special permission.

The Ministry of Trade of the Sverdlovsk Region withdrew its claims against the Yekaterinburg Diocese. In the summer , the ministry began checking the quality of wine sold in church shops. Wine trade was carried out without a license. The diocese refused to say through which channels the Cahors is supplied.

In September, unknown people cut and took away 20 meters of the iron fence of the Muslim cemetery in Ishim (Tyumen Region). "There is a clear act of vandalism here," says the chairman of the Muslim organization Ishim Zhamilya Murzanova, "because the attackers could not help but see the Muslim ornament with a crescent moon on the fences. They knew they were stealing a cemetery fence." The police launched an investigation into the incident.

The Movement Against Illegal Immigration (DPNI) has agreed to collaborate with the German National Democratic Party (NDP) and stated its intention to organize an international conference of nationalistic organizations in Moscow this winter. :We see the NDP as our most reliable ally in Germany. The vision of a future international coalition is clear in my mind;, said the leader of the DPNI, Alexander Belov.

On September 13, 2008, the "Unifying' Congress of the DPNI took place in Russia's capital. It was prepared by the Moscow faction of the organization, led by Alexander Mikhailov, with the stated purpose to heal the rifts in the organization existent since May this year.

Konstantin Kharchev, who served as chairman of the Council for Religious Affairs under the Council of Ministers of the USSR from 1984 to 1989, in an interview with the NG-Religion newspaper , told why he considers it right to recreate the Council in modern conditions. The interlocutor of the newspaper stressed that "the point is not to control the activities of the Church, but to control the implementation of legislation on freedom of conscience and religious organizations.

Director of the Tyumen Center for Museum Technologies LLC "Museum-Studio" Rishat Rakhimov accused the head of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Tyumen Region (DUM TO) Galimzyan Bikmullin of creating obstacles in research work. R. Rakhimov, together with his colleagues, is engaged in the study of "astana" - the necropolises of the first Islamic missionaries.

On September 16, an agreement was signed between the Stavropol and Vladikavkaz diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Kabardino-Balkaria. The parties intend to cooperate in the social and cultural spheres and in the education of young people. In the summer, a camp for Orthodox and Muslim youth was already operating in the Stavropol Territory, organized on the initiative of the Archbishop of Stavropol and Vladikavkaz Feofan (Ashurkov).

On September 15, 2008, in Ulyanovsk, the Leninsky District Court delivered a guilty verdict in the case of four residents of the city, who in January 2008 staged an anti-Semitic action near the building of the Ulyanovsk Regional Jewish Cultural Autonomy. A sociological examination carried out on the case showed that the inscriptions on the building of the community contained an open call for the extermination of the Jews.

On September 16, 2008, in Moscow, at a meeting between Vladimir Putin and the LDPR faction, Vladimir Zhirinovsky proposed removing Article 282 (inciting hatred or enmity) from the Criminal Code. "We propose to remove Article 282 on inciting ethnic hatred ," Zhirinovsky said. - "Only Russians sit on it, not a single representative of minorities, this article is even called Russian . " Exclusion requirements Art.

In the 2008/2009 academic year, the subject “Fundamentals of Islam” was introduced at the Kazan Orthodox Theological Seminary. Fifth-year students will study the new discipline. The pedagogical council of the seminary decided to introduce a new subject due to the fact that a large percentage of Tatarstan residents profess Islam, and future pastors should have an idea about this religion. A course of lectures on the fundamentals of Islam will be given by Candidate of Historical Sciences E.