The Suleiman Mosque in Kazan, together with the Bahetle retail chain and the German-Belarusian company Santa Bremor, held a charity event called "The World at Your Fingertips," IslamRF reports . The action was aimed at raising funds to help blind Muslims. At the expense of the collected funds, six computers and computer tables, scanners and other equipment were purchased.

At the end of October 2008, the youth movement "Locals" held an action in Moscow against illegal taxi drivers "Illegal driving - a criminal on the loose " June 2007). On October 23-25, 2008, activists of the movement handed out leaflets and stickers in different parts of the city, "calling to boycott the services of illegal drivers" , and on October 26, 2008, they completed the action on Theater Square in Moscow.

The meeting of the Pugachevsky municipal district appealed to the Saratov Regional Duma with a proposal to rename the village of Mopr to Monastyrsky, the website of the Saratov diocese reports . The name Mopr was given to the settlement in the 30s of the XX century. This is an acronym that stands for "International United Aid to the Revolution". In 2000, with the blessing of Alexy II, the St. Nicholas Convent was established in the village.

By October 24, 2008, the Federal List of Extremist Materials was replenished again. This time it included the site "Ingushetia.Ru" and one of the issues of the newspaper "Russian Transbaikalia". However, at the same time, these materials were introduced with an obvious error: * "276.

The Ministry of Health of Tatarstan, the Kazan diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Republic of Tatarstan have concluded an agreement that representatives of various confessions will work in the medical institutions of the republic, Islam.ru reports . “Our possibilities are not unlimited and, unfortunately, despite the progress in science, we are still faced with incurable diseases.

On October 25, 2008, employees of the Chertanovo Severnoye police department in Moscow seized 1,000 DPNI campaign stickers for compliance with the law. Several activists of the Moscow branch of the DPNI were detained while putting up stickers dedicated to the upcoming Russian March. According to DPNI, the seizure of the campaign bag was not documented.

On October 25, 2008, at about 7:00 pm in Moscow, in an underground passage near the Kuntsevskaya metro station, a group of shaven-headed young people dressed in high boots attacked Zorigto Vanchikov, a 38-year-old native of Buryatia, who works as a dentist in one of Moscow's private firms. The attackers beat the man with their hands and feet, then one of them took out a knife and hit Z. Vanchikov on the arm. Skinheads fled the scene. Passers-by called an ambulance.

On October 14, the Union of the Russian People published a statement expressing its position on the defrocking of Bishop Diomede. The document says that the NRC considers the actions of the ROC MP Synod against Bishop Diomede "a gross and deceitful violation of the apostolic rules and canonical regulations of the Holy Orthodox Church." The organization considers the defrocking of Bishop Diomede and his banning from the priesthood as invalid.

The Khabarovsk Regional Court is conducting a judicial investigation into the brutal murder of 23-year-old Azerbaijani citizen Rasim Yahya-oglu Shahverdiyev, committed on the night of March 24, 2008. On October 25, a regular hearing on the case was held. 31-year-old Dmitry Paponov and 26-year-old Alexander Shemelin are accused of murder. They are charged with p. "l, g" part 2 of article 105 (murder organized by prior agreement on the motive of national, racial hatred).

The Muslims of Rostov have expressed their concern that the local authorities have become less contact and cooperate with public, national and religious organizations, - reports IA "Islamnews" . In order to re-establish contacts with government officials and give an objective idea of ​​Islam in the region, public Islamic organizations in Rostov, Shakhty and Novocherkassk decided to hold a scientific and practical conference.

On October 27, 2008, the trial in the case of Andrei Nikitin, who was accused under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (participation in the activities of a public organization, in respect of which a court has made a final decision to ban activities in connection with the implementation of extremist activities) for an action in the Khudozhestvenny cinema during the demonstration of the film A Kiss Not for the Press.

The Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg passed a guilty verdict in a criminal case against an 18-year-old student of the Baltic State University "Voenmekh" Vitaly Volkov, who beat up two citizens of Algeria and a citizen of India on November 18, 2007. On October 27, 2008, the court verdict entered into force . V.Volkov was sentenced to 3 years and 6 months. conditionally with a probationary period of 3 years. He was charged with Part 2 of Art.