On October 15, the Chairman of the All-Russian Public Movement "Russian Islamic Heritage" Shavkat-Khadzhi Avyasov addressed an open letter to the editor-in-chief of the "Russian Newsweek" magazine Mikhail Fishman. In this document, he pointed out that the magazine's reprint of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad had offended the feelings of Russian Muslims. Sh-X.

The Yekaterinburg Diocese and the Department of Education of the Administration of Yekaterinburg have signed a cooperation agreement, Pravoslavnaya Gazeta reports .

October 15, 2008 Novgorod The city court of the Novgorod region recognized as extremist materials 14 agitation and propaganda racist video files and videos "Format 18" hosted on the Internet on the server of LLC "Novgorod-Datacom".

The Moscow authorities have decided to restore the "House of the clergy of the Church of Antipia on Kolymazhny Dvor" in Maly Znamensky Lane. Repair work will be carried out at the expense of the city budget. "Design and estimate documentation for the restoration of the cultural heritage site of the first third of the 19th century will be developed in 2009-2011," - said an employee of the Moscow City Hall. Sources In the capital, the house of the clergy of the church of St.

October 13, 2008 In Moscow, near the metro station "Chistye Prudy", a group of 20-30 young people attacked 4 people of "non-Slavic appearance", who were supposedly natives of the Caucasus, passing by, while shouting "Russia for the Russians." Having beaten the "Caucasians", the attackers split up and disappeared in different directions. A witness to the incident notes that there were several employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs at Chistye Prudy.

On October 14, 2008, the Council of Muftis of Russia announced that, according to their information, the Department for Combating Extremism of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation would check "on the fact of the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad . " This is an article in the Russian Newsweek magazine on September 29 entitled "Who will come to us with a mosque", accompanied by a marginal callout on the infamous "cartoon scandal" of 2006.

The Primorsky District Court of St. Petersburg ruled that the films "Modern Russian Idea under the Conditions of the Jewish Yoke", "Russia with a Knife in the Back. Jewish Fascism" were recognized as "extremist". On October 15, 2008, the court decision entered into force and will be sent to the Federal Registration Service for St.

On October 14, 2008, the Council of the State Duma of the Russian Federation decided to remove the draft law on toughening anti-extremist legislation from consideration by the State Duma in connection with the withdrawal of the legislative initiative by the subject of law. The amendment proposed to facilitate the procedure for the liquidation of public organizations in the event that they are issued warnings about the inadmissibility of extremist activities.

On October 14, 2008, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Tatarstan approved the verdict of the Sovetsky District Court of Kazan dated May 26, 2008 against activists of the Tatar regional branch of Russian National Unity (TRO RNU). Ekaterina Melnikova was sentenced to 7 years in prison in a general regime correctional colony. Yevgeny Nazarov and Alexander Pavlov were sentenced to 6.5 and 6 years in prison in a strict regime correctional colony.

In October 2008, in the city of Vyshny Volochek (Tver region), on Kazansky Prospekt, 23-year-old S. and 20-year-old Maxim Chernova shot at natives of Uzbekistan. The attackers fired two shots. The crime was committed motivated by national hatred. The health of the victims suffered severe damage. On the same day, two hours later, M. Chernov and S. on the Volochek-Esenovichi highway shot twice at a taxi driver, a native of Azerbaijan. The taxi driver died from his gunshot wounds.

The editors of the Russian Newsweek magazine apologized to everyone who could be offended by the illustration in the reference to the article on the development of Islam in Europe, Interfax reports . "We did not mean any provocation or challenge. We would like to emphasize that we did not set as our goal with this publication again to draw attention to a painful topic that arose in Europe three years ago," said Mikhail Fishman, editor-in-chief of the magazine.

On October 15, 2008, in the city court of St. Petersburg, with the participation of jurors, consideration of a criminal case against Denis Dzhivovsky, Sergey Dmitriev and two minor residents of the city, who are accused of attacking a citizen of Uzbekistan Ibragim Pormanov in November 2007, began. Recall that all suspects are charged with Article 282 (inciting hatred or enmity), and two minors - also part 2 of Art.