On January 31, 2009, Alexander Belov's appeal was published on the DPNI website in connection with the persecution of the leader of the Movement on charges of inciting ethnic hatred. Recall that the case was initiated on the fact of his speech at the rally that ended the "Russian March - 2007".

The Supreme Lama of Kalmykia, Telo Tulku Rinpoche, applied to the Russian Foreign Ministry with a request to issue an entry visa to the Dalai Lama. "Kalmyks have been practicing Buddhism for many centuries, and for us the celebration of such a significant date as the 400th anniversary of joining Russia, which is being celebrated this year, is unthinkable without the participation of our spiritual leader, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama," the message says. .

In early January 2009, an administrative offense case was opened in Kaluga for distributing materials included in the Federal List of Extremist Materials . Islamic literature, recognized as extremist by decisions of the Savelovsky District Court of Moscow and the Buguruslan City Court, was found in the possession of a resident of Kaluga. According to the woman, she received the books from an unknown person on the street. The case of an administrative offense was initiated under Art.

The Commission on Interethnic Relations and Freedom of Conscience of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation appealed to the Federal Migration Service with a request to "contribute to a positive solution to the issue" of the stay of the Chief Rabbi of Primorsky Krai Yisroel Zilberstein in Russia. On February 11, the court of the Pervorechensky district of Vladivostok decided to expel the rabbi from the country in connection with the violation of the order of stay here.

On February 25, 2009, in Moscow, at a board meeting of the Prosecutor General's Office, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev spoke about the judicial practice of combating extremism. "Under today's conditions, manifestations of extremism are especially dangerous. In many cases, they are directly related to attempts to destabilize the situation in our society ," the President said.

In February 2009, the newspaper Yamskaya Sloboda (Tyumen), citing the prosecutor's office of the Tyumen region, published statistics on racist murders committed in the region in 2008. By the end of 2008, the Center for Combating Terrorism and Extremism at the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the region had uncovered three murders committed, according to the investigation, for racist motives.

On the website of the Mayor of Perm, a vote is being held on the possibility of renaming Kommunisticheskaya Street into Petropavlovskaya - the street had such a name until the 20s of the 20th century. Residents on this street are invited to choose one of two answers: "Yes, we should rename and return the name Petropavlovskaya" or "No, we should leave the name Communist". As of the end of February, about a thousand people expressed their opinion. More than 10,000 people live on this street.

Mufti Abdulla Ishmukhamedov, Deputy Chief Mufti of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Asian Part of Russia (SUM AChR), in an interview with the newspaper Arsenyevskiye Vesti, announced the priority of the Russian Orthodox Church imposed by the authorities. "Orthodoxy has a huge priority in administrative terms, it is supported at all levels of government. From municipal, city, regional, up to federal," the mufti said.