On September 21, 2008, in St. Petersburg, at the Ploshchad Vosstaniya metro station, four young men and one girl bullied passengers, one of whom was beaten. After that, they began to pester a man from the Caucasus on the platform. In response to this, the Caucasian shot one of the thugs in the stomach with a pistol and disappeared. It is reported that the police have information that a group of young people belongs to Nazi skinheads. The wounded attacker was hospitalized. Sources A St.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed a decree according to which the Intercession Cathedral in Borovsk (Kaluga Region) became the property of the Old Believer community. The local religious organization "Borovo Orthodox Old Believer Community of the Temple of the Presentation of the Most Holy Theotokos" of the Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church and the Ministry of Economic Development some time ago made a proposal to transfer the temple to believers in the Government.

In Kamchatka, the traffic police and the Russian Orthodox Church are holding a joint action. The reason for this event was the increase in deaths on the roads of the region. Together with the traffic police officers, priests go on duty: they sprinkle dangerous sections of roads with holy water, and conduct religious processions there.

On September 21, 2008, in Dzerzhinsk (Nizhny Novgorod region) on Pozharsky Street (according to other information on Butlerov Street), the body of a 19-year-old student, a native of Tajikistan, Bekhruz Merzoev, was found. The young man was stabbed in the stomach and shot in the back. A criminal case has been initiated under Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder). One of the versions of the investigation is a murder on racist grounds.

On September 2, 2008, in the Cherepovets city court in the Vologda region, a hearing began on the distribution of K. Dushenov's film "Russia with a knife in the back. Jewish fascism and the genocide of the Russian people" by the former librarian Natalya Yuganova in the library of the Archbishop's Resurrection Metochion of the Russian Orthodox Church. The defendant is charged under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity).

On September 22, 2008, the Moscow City Court handed down a verdict against 13 people from the Kalinichenko gang accused in the case of a series of neo-Nazi attacks. The case of suspect Evgenia Zhikhareva was separated into separate proceedings, and she herself was released under parental supervision. 20-year-old Ivan Kalinichenko (Kolinichenko), 18-year-old Timofey and Kirill Kovalev, Ilya Shutko, and nine minor gang members were found guilty under Art. "a", "c" part 2 art.

The Russian Orthodox Church calls on the authorities to support church work in the social sphere at the expense of the budget and to abandon the state monopoly in it, Interfax reports . "The Church creates social institutions where every person, even the hopelessly ill and having limited opportunities to think or act and live, is treated with great care.

The Orthodox community opposed the idea of ​​returning the Dzerzhinsky monument to Lubyanka. The Union of Orthodox Citizens stated that Dzerzhinsky is an enemy of the Russian Orthodox Church and his rehabilitation “contradicts the course of the country’s authorities towards the revival of great Russia.” SPG proposed to declare Alexander Nevsky or Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco John (Maksimovich) as the patron of the special services.

The Russian Ministry of Justice has again added to the Federal List of Extremist Materials. From August 30 to September 22, 2008, NNs 256-266 were included. As in previous updates, the list was replenished with duplicates of prohibited materials - under N265 it got the infamous video with a double murder ("Execution of a Tajik and a Dag ..."), however, there is reason to believe that it was this video, but under the title "Video provocation ", was already listed under N142.

On September 19, 2008, the prosecutor's office of the Trans-Baikal Territory issued a warning to the chairman of the Council of the Chita department of the Union of the Russian People, the founder and editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Russian Transbaikalia" Alexander Yaremenko for the article "Trial of the Russian resistance. Prosecutorial and judicial defeat of Kharagun as an act of genocide of the Russian people", published in No.

On September 21, a rally was held in St. Petersburg in support of the 2x2 TV channel, which is trying to appeal in court the decision of the district prosecutor's office to recognize the content of one of the episodes of the South Park cartoon as extremist . About 300 people took part in it, Interfax reports . The action took place in the garden named after Chernyshevsky. Participants were holding banners depicting characters from cartoons "South Park", "The Simpsons" and others.

On September 19, Falun Gong followers held a picket in Moscow "dedicated to the memory of all the victims of the repression of Falun Gong followers in China," reports Portal-Credo.ru . It was decided to hold the picket regardless of whether the government approved it, the Falun Dafa leadership said. The rally was held in the park opposite the Chinese Embassy building from 15:00 to 18:00.