On October 1, the magistrate of the precinct for the Meleuzovsky district and the city of Meleuz (Bashkiria) delivered a guilty verdict on two young people found guilty of organizing a Hizb ut-Tahrir cell and participating in its activities. Marat Ismagilov was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282-2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and sentenced to a year of suspended liberty, Rustam Rakhmatullin - under Part 2 of Art. 282-2 and sentenced to 6 months probation.

On September 30, the State Duma held parliamentary hearings "On the problems of legislative support for combating crime based on national, racial and religious intolerance", at which the draft federal law "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation in Connection with the Improvement of Activities to Counter Extremism" was discussed . Part of the proposed changes concerns religious organizations.

On September 19, the annual report of the US State Department on religious freedom in the world was published, one of the sections of which is dedicated to Russia. The report's authors note that local officials systematically discriminate against religious minorities, despite attempts by the central government to ensure religious freedom. Most often, facts of discrimination are observed against Muslims, Jews, Scientologists and non-Orthodox Christians.

The Information and Analytical Center "SOVA" took part in the annual OSCE conference on the human dimension in Warsaw. At the plenary session of the session "Tolerance and non-discrimination" on October 1, 2008, the Director of the Center Alexander Verkhovsky spoke . Speech by A. Verkhovsky Dear chairman, dear participants of the conference!

The arbitration court of the Arkhangelsk region rejected the claim of the healer Larisa kladovoi against the regional newspaper "Vazhsky Krai" and the Orthodox priest Vitaly Belitsky. L. Kladova claimed that the priest's article published in the newspaper defames her business reputation, demanded a refutation of the article and compensation for moral damage. Sources "Healer" from the Arkhangelsk region lost a lawsuit against an Orthodox priest in court // Week. 2008. October 2.

On October 1, 2008, at the annual OSCE Human Dimension Conference (September 29-October 10, 2008), thematic sessions began on the issues of tolerance and non-discrimination. The plenary session on October 1 was devoted to issues related to the protection of the rights of national minorities and the prevention of aggressive nationalism, racism and chauvinism.

On September 24, 2008, in Moscow, officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs detained one of the leaders of the neo-Nazi organization Slavic Union. Right-wing sites report that the detainee was being questioned in connection with the brutal murder of two men, the execution scene of which was posted on the Internet. The details of the incident are unknown. Based on materials from right-wing radical sites.

Nizhny Novgorod Muslims are outraged by the textbook “History of Religions,” which is used to teach in more than three hundred schools in the region. Believers considered some phrases from this textbook offensive. The authors of the textbook placed information about Islam in the “sects” section, calling Islam a religion of fate.

On September 30, 2008, the Leninsky District Court of Nizhny Tagil upheld the decision of the city's election commission banning the use of an election video of one of the candidates in the mayoral elections. We are talking about the video of the Vice-Speaker of the City Duma Valentina Isaeva, whose main competitor in the elections is a member of United Russia, the head of Tagilbank Alexei Chekanov.

In early October 2008, a court in the Samara Region found Rumiya Alaberdina guilty under Part 2 of Article 119 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (threat to kill motivated by ethnic hatred) and sentenced her to 2 years of suspended liberty with a probationary period of 1 year. The prosecutor of the Bolshechernigovsky district of the Samara region charged R. Alaberdina in court. The public prosecutor presented evidence to the court that in July 2008 in the village of Irgizsky, R.

At the end of September 2008 in Moscow on the street. Peschanaya, an 18-year-old member of the Nazi skinhead group "Beavers", a student of a culinary college, was detained, suspected of organizing an explosion at the Tushino market in Moscow. It is known that two young people left a package with an improvised shellless explosive device equivalent to 150 grams of TNT at the clothing market in the cafe "On Broadway".

On October 1, a picket was held in Moscow against the teaching of "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture" in public schools. The protest was organized by the Free Radicals movement. It was supposed that the picket would take place in Novopushkinsky Square, but the police did not let the protesters go there, so the "Free Radicals" settled down in front of the barriers, on Tverskaya.

On October 1, 2008, during the work of the annual conference of the OSCE on the human dimension, the International Network Against Internet Hate (INACH) organized a round table "Cyber-hatred kills". The main speakers at the event were Alexander Verkhovsky (SOVA Center, Russia), Ted Stanke (Human Rights First, USA), Ronald Eissens (Magenta Foundation, Netherlands), Daniel Milo (Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights), Suzette Bronchkorst ( INACH).

In August, Rosneft transferred 60 million rubles to the charitable account for the construction of the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Mother of God of the Kursk Root Hermitage. Since the beginning of the year, 96 million 744 thousand rubles have been collected for the restoration of the cathedral.

On October 1, during a meeting of the Council for Interaction with Religious Associations under the President of Mari El, Deputy Head of the Government of the Republic Mikhail Vasyutin announced that the Mari El government would contribute to the restoration of sacred groves. The government intends to assist in the purchase of planting material, equipment of access roads and places for prayers of adherents of the Mari traditional religion.