On December 13, an attempt was made to set fire to the church of St. Nicholas in Moscow, Interfax reports . Unidentified persons threw a Molotov cocktail at the wall of the building. Residents of the area and the watchman of the temple saw a man running away, having thrown a Molotov cocktail before that. A criminal case has been initiated. An investigation is underway. Sources A Molotov cocktail was thrown into a wooden temple in the north of Moscow // Interfax-religion. 2008. December 23.

On December 23, the Ministry of Justice again updated the Federal List of Extremist Materials. This time, the list includes 4 materials from the followers of the Falun Gong movement.

In mid-December 2008, the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications and Mass Communications (Rossvyazkomnadzor) (former Rossvyazohrankultura - ed.) published a list of warnings for using the media to carry out extremist activities issued by the territorial departments of the department in 2008. The Administration for the Tyumen region issued a warning to the editors of the newspaper "Trudovaya Tyumen" for the publication of the article by R.

On December 23, 2008, the Ministry of Justice once again updated the federal list of extremist materials, adding NN296-301 to it. This time, the list includes videos of neo-Nazi attacks (mainly "Format-18"), as well as 4 materials of the followers of the Falun Gong movement. Thus, as of December 23, 2008, 301 items were included in the list (292 materials, 9 of which were included in the list twice).

On August 26, 2008, the Pervomaisky District Court of Krasnodar recognized as extremist a number of materials related to the Chinese spiritual practice Falun Gong. This became known from the next update of the federal list of extremist materials.

On December 18, 2008, Anvar Azimov, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, made a statement at the OSCE Permanent Council on the subject of the search at the St. Petersburg Research Center "Memorial".

In connection with the upcoming election of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, the Union of Orthodox Brotherhoods appealed to the hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church, reports Russian Line .

On December 23, a cooperation agreement was signed between the Nizhny Novgorod diocese and the Main Directorate of Execution of Punishments for the Nizhny Novgorod Region, reports Blagovest-info . This is the third such agreement: the first was signed in 1996, the second in 2003. Currently, Orthodox churches operate on the territory of eight correctional colonies; in another four colonies they have already been built and will be consecrated in the very near future.

On December 22, 2008, the Solntsevsky District Court of Moscow delivered a sentence under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation to three football fans , young people aged 21 to 27, who staged a neo-Nazi action at a match in the Moscow region in April 2007. The court sentenced one of the accused (a 27-year-old young man, previously convicted twice) to 1 year of probation, the other two received 6 months each. conditional term. None of the defendants pleaded guilty.

An interreligious youth council has been created in the Omsk region, Patriarchia.ru reports . Its activities will be aimed at "development of cooperation between religious associations promoting traditional spiritual values ​​and participation in the implementation of socially significant projects." The decision to establish the council was made at a meeting of leaders of youth associations operating under local Orthodox, Islamic, Jewish, Lutheran religious organizations in the Omsk region.

The Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation approved the composition of the supervisory commission, which will monitor the observance of the rights of citizens in places of deprivation of liberty, reports IslamRF . One of the 12 members of this commission was Gayaz Fatkullin, Mufti of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. The public monitoring commission was established in accordance with the federal law on the creation of such organizations in all subjects of the federation.

On December 23, 2008, the director of the FSB of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bortnikov, speaking at a meeting of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee, announced that he had ordered tough measures to be taken in connection with the growth in Russia of "crimes of a nationalist and extremist nature and murders on ethnic grounds." "Information coming to the committee indicates that the bandit underground seeks to recruit new members into its ranks, primarily from among the youth prone to the

On December 23, 2008, in the city court in St. Petersburg, the jury announced a verdict in the case of two terrorist attacks committed in the city on February 4 and February 18, 2007. Storekeeper Fyodor Kovalchuk and salesman Evgeniy Skorov were found guilty of organizing the explosion at McDonalds, welder Alexander Petrishchev and another minor involved in the case (a student at a vocational lyceum) were acquitted of this episode.