Vladimir Zorin, Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Volga Federal District, responded to an Open Letter from Nizhny Novgorod Muslims, Islam in Nizhny Novgorod reports . In his response letter, V.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia has developed a set of measures to combat ethnic and religious extremism, Interfax reports . In September 2008, the country's leadership decided to create a department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to counter extremism. In addition, specialized units will be created in the system of internal affairs bodies.

In 2008, the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications and Mass Communications (Rossvyazkomnadzor) (former Rossvyazohrankultura - ed.) issued a statement for the use of the media to carry out extremist activities to the RUSNORD News Agency (RUSNORD) (Arkhangelsk) "for materials distributed on the Internet at an email address. From the message of Rossvyazkomnadzor it is not clear what exactly the warning was issued for, so nothing can be said about the legitimacy of this decision.

Residents of Murmansk sent an appeal to the city administration with a request to ban the construction of a "cult building of the neo-Pentecostal sect" in the city center, Pravoslavie na Severnaya Zemlya reports . More than 3,000 people signed the appeal. Recall that in mid-November, the diocese has already expressed concern about this construction.

On November 27, the Russian United Union of Evangelical Christians (Pentecostals) published a statement in which it demanded that Rossvyazkomnadzor substantiate the decision to renew the license for the 2x2 TV channel. In addition, the Pentecostals expressed their dissatisfaction with this, Interfax reports .

On November 24, 2008, an examination appointed by the Basmanny Court of Moscow in the case of recognizing Andrei Piontkovsky's collection of articles "Unloved Country" as extremist material was completed. The experts did not find any signs of inciting ethnic or religious hatred in them.

On November 22, 2008, bard, director and soloist of a Jewish music ensemble, winner of an international competition, Mikhail Altshuller, was beaten in the Moscow metro. This was reported by the press service of the Russian Jewish Congress. According to the victim, the incident occurred in a subway car on the stretch between the Lenin Library and Kropotkinskaya stations. Three shaven-headed young men approached M.

On November 27, 2008, a scientific-practical conference dedicated to the participation of internal affairs bodies and the FMS of Russia in ensuring and protecting the rights and freedoms of representatives of national minorities began its work at the All-Russian Institute for Advanced Studies (VIPK) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.

On November 27, 2008, one of the Irkutsk news-papers published the results of an investigation which showed that the high profile murder of 16 year-old Olga Rukosyla didn't take place. Moreover, there was no such a girl with such a name. The disclaimer was made by an Irkutsk newspaper :SM Nomer Odin; in cooperation with the Irkutsk and Moscow antifascists.

On November 25, in Moscow, in the administrative building of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims, an action was held to donate blood, timed to coincide with the Day of Combating AIDS, which is celebrated all over the world on December 1, the Russian Islamic Heritage reports . The initiators of the action were the Department of social and charitable and spiritual and educational activities of the Council of Muftis of Russia and the charitable organization "Donors for Children".

On November 26, 2008, in Saratov, a verdict was passed in the case of the murder of a 25-year-old man, in which a minor member of "one of the anti-Semitic nationalist organizations" was accused. A neo-Nazi was sentenced for the murder of a man to five and a half years in a penal colony. The court also ordered him to compensate for material and moral damage in the amount of about 300 thousand rubles.

On November 27, 2008, the results of a journalistic investigation were published, which showed that there was no sensational murder of a 16-year-old girl, Olga Ruksyla, in Irkutsk. There was no girl with that name. The refutation became possible thanks to a journalistic investigation by an employee of the Irkutsk newspaper SM Number One, conducted jointly with Irkutsk and Moscow anti-fascists.