The head of the Spiritual Board of Muslims of Adygea, Mufti Nurbiy Emizh, and the Archbishop of Maikop and Adygea Panteleimon (Kutovoy), during a meeting with the President of the Republic, Aslan Tkhakushinov, asked to take measures regarding the advertising of a striptease show of one of the Maykop nightclubs. The Maykop department of the Kuban Cossack army also opposed the same advertisement.

On March 25, 2009, the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for the Chelyabinsk Region initiated a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (creation of an extremist community) in relation to two local residents.

A decision was made to create a Religious Studies Council under the administration of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation for the Nizhny Novgorod Region. This decision was announced on March 26 at a press conference by the head of the department, Alexander Bazhenov. The new body is supposed to include representatives of religious organizations, law enforcement agencies, and scientists.

On March 24, the Lyublinsky District Court of Moscow began hearings on a criminal case against the head of the Umma publishing house, Aslambek Ezhaev. Initially, the case was initiated under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity) due to the distribution of the book "The Personality of a Muslim". Then the charges under Art. 282 were removed , and the case was reclassified: now A.

On March 25, 2009, the Judicial Collegium for Civil Cases of the Moscow City Court upheld the decisions of the Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow of December 22, 2008 and November 24, 2008 , which recognized the articles "Symbiosis, KGB and Jews" as extremist materials and "Death to Russia!", published in the newspaper "Duel" in N 27 for 2006 and in N 31 for 2007 Recall that applications for the recognition of these materials as extremist were sent to the court by the Gagarin inter-district

On March 24, 2009, officers of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Nizhny Novgorod Region conducted searches in the apartments of five activists of the local branch of the Movement against Illegal Immigration (DPNI). During searches conducted as part of a criminal case initiated on the murder of a citizen of Tajikistan in the city of Dzerzhinsk (Nizhny Novgorod region) in the summer of 2008, computers, electronic media, communications equipment, books and newspapers were seized.

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov signed a decree allocating more than 182 million rubles in 2009 for repair and restoration work in 15 Orthodox churches, one Baptist church and one mosque in the city. We are talking, in particular, about the refectory building of the Zachatievsky convent, the church of St. Nicholas in Derbenev, the John the Baptist Convent, the mosque on Bolshaya Tatarskaya Street and the Church of Evangelical Christian Baptists in Maly Trekhsvyatitelsky Lane.

In March 2009, we obtained the text of an examination of a number of materials from the religious organization Jehovah's Witnesses, conducted by S. A. Mochalova, a specialist in the criminalistics laboratory of the regional operational and technical department of the Federal Security Service for the Sverdlovsk region. The following materials were examined: the brochures "What happens at death?", "What is the meaning of life? How can we find it?", "Jehovah's Witnesses. Who are they?

The prosecutor's office of the Altai Territory revealed in the bookstores of Barnaul the sale of Vladimir Istarkhov's book "What is "Dead Water?" , Included in the Federal List of Extremist Materials . The Prosecutor of the Zheleznodorozhny District initiated administrative proceedings on an administrative offense under Article 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (production and distribution of extremist materials ).

In December 2008, missionary Chris Willeck (Willeck Neal), a US citizen, was deported from Russia. The head of the immigration control department of the Office of the Federal Migration Service (UFMS) of the Russian Federation for the Ivanovo Region, P. Maksimenko, announced to Nil, who arrived at the invitation of the Russian Union of Evangelical Christian Baptists (RSECHB), that he should leave the Russian Federation, in addition, he was banned for 5 years entry to Russia.

On March 25, 2009 in Kemerovo, Dmitry Solovyov, an activist of the Oborona movement, was handed a decision to bring him on trial in a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 (inciting social hatred). Recall that the case against the blogger was initiated over several entries in his LiveJournal, in which he spoke critically about the work of the police and the FSB. Sources The blogger was accused of undermining the constitutional order and extremism // Human rights in Russia. 2009. March 26.