On January 27, 2009, in the Vsevolozhsk district of the Leningrad region, the body of a citizen of Uzbekistan with multiple stab wounds was found in the forest. The man's body was found on the 36th km of the Vyborg highway in the territory of the Vasilievka gardening. A criminal case has been initiated under Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder). Sources Citizen of Uzbekistan killed in St. Petersburg // Interfax.Ru. 2009. January 28.

On January 27, 2009, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev returned for revision a draft law on amendments to articles 275 (high treason) and 276 (espionage) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. According to Vladislav Surkov, First Deputy Head of the Russian Presidential Administration, Medvedev was attentive to the criticism of the bill and admitted that "there may be a risk of a broad interpretation of the concepts of 'state secret', 'treason' and 'espionage'" .

on suspicion of attacking an Uzbek citizen in the Leningrad region. On January 28, 2009, it became known that four teenagers were detained in Kirishi One of the detainees is studying in the 10th grade, three are in the 9th grade. Recall that earlier a criminal case was initiated under Article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (hooliganism). Sources Schoolchildren are suspected of attacking a citizen of Uzbekistan in the Leningrad region // IA REGNUM.Ru. 2009. January 28.

In Mordovia, a criminal case has been initiated under Parts 1 and 2 of Article 239 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organization of an association that infringes on the personality and rights of citizens and participation in it). The defendants are members of a satanic group founded in 2003 by a medical student from Belarus.

On January 27, 2009, it became known that the prosecutor's office of the Astrakhan region was conducting an investigation into the distribution of leaflets with nationalistic content. The leaflets were distributed on behalf of the organizing committee of the non-profit partnership "Tatar Business Center", after which the chairman of the center appealed to the prosecutor's office.

On January 27, 2009, the texts of Akhmed Zakaev and Aslan Maskhadov were included in the Federal List of Extremist Materials, the publication of which in the Nizhny Novgorod newspaper Pravo-Zashchita led to the closure of the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society and the subsequent closure of the newspaper published by it. According to the Ministry of Justice, these materials were recognized as extremist at the same court session at which the newspaper was closed on October 11, 2007.

The local council of the Russian Orthodox Church, which opened in Moscow on January 27, elected a new patriarch of Moscow and All Rus'. This was Metropolitan Kirill (Gundyaev) of Smolensk and Kaliningrad. He received 508 votes (with the required minimum of 352). Another contender for the patriarchal throne, Metropolitan of Kaluga and Borovsk Clement (Kapalin) - 169 votes. The number of ballots after voting is 700, of which 23 are invalid.

The Chamber of Control and Accounts of Bashkortostan has discovered inappropriate spending of charitable funds collected for the construction of a cathedral mosque in Ufa. In 2006, 300 million rubles were allocated for construction.

On December 17, 2008, representatives of the prosecutor's office of the Yegorlyksky district of the Rostov region found an image of a swastika on the fence of the Yegorlyksky branch of the public health institution of the Rostov region "Pathology Bureau". It was found that the image has not been erased for a long time. A submission was made to the head of the medical institution, after which the swastika was erased. Sources Vera Voloshinova.

On January 25, 2009, it became known that the case of a group of Nazi skinheads accused under pars. "a" and "c" part 2 of Art. 282 (incitement of national and religious hatred by an organized group with the use of violence), Ch. 1 and 2 Art. 213 (hooliganism with the use of weapons or objects used as weapons, committed by a group of persons by prior agreement or by an organized group), art. 214 (vandalism), art. 116 (beatings).

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that his department is ready to consider the possibility of a visit to Russia by the 14th Dalai Lama. "We do not prevent Russian Buddhists from communicating with the Dalai Lama. We are ready to consider the possibility of his pastoral visit to Russia in the future," he said during a speech at the "government hour" in the Federation Council. According to the minister, "there are no insurmountable obstacles" for the Dalai Lama's visit.

*We are publishing the text of the first cassation decision of the Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court of Russia in the case of Roman Polusmyak , accused of the murder of Armenian youth Artur Sardaryan, dated September 25, 2007. Recall that R. Polusmyak's case was considered twice by the jury, and twice he was acquitted by the jury.

In January 2009, Major General Alexander Ivanov, deputy head of the Moscow Main Department of Internal Affairs, sent a letter to the rector of the State University - Higher School of Economics (SU-HSE) Yaroslav Kuzminov asking him to deal with students detained on December 14, 2008 during an "unauthorized" "march Dissenters" in Moscow.

On January 27, 2009, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation dismissed the cassation complaint of Rossvyazkomnadzor against the decision of the St. Petersburg city court of October 21, 2008, which dismissed the claim of Rossvyazokhrankultura regarding the closure of the Novy Peterburg newspaper, finding no signs of extremism in the articles "Why we will go on a march of dissent" Nikolay Andrushchenko and "Here is a real candidate" Konstantin Chernyaev.

The prosecutor's office of the Astrakhan region began an investigation into the distribution of extremist leaflets. The check was started after the appeal of the chairman of the Council of the non-profit partnership "Tatar Business Center", who discovered these leaflets. His appeal was forwarded to the regional police department. The experts saw in the text of the leaflet "ideas of an extremist nature, in particular, the superiority of a person on the basis of his nationality.