On March 14, a meeting of the Commission on Juvenile Affairs of the Elista City Hall took place on the case of Adventist children skipping school on Saturdays. The pastor of the Adventist Church emphasizes that at the meeting their Church was called a sect and treated them unkindly. Members of the commission, as well as employees of the prosecutor's office, stated that religious motives are not a valid reason for not attending school.

On April 6, 2009, Rafail Sadigov, born in 1991, the son of the vice-president of the Federal National Cultural Autonomy of Azerbaijanis of Russia (FNKA AzerRos) Mehriban Sadigova, was severely beaten in Moscow late in the evening. R. Sadigov was attacked by a group of unknown young people near the house, shouting "kill blacks, kill reptiles" . M. Sadigova on the same day applied to the police department "Kotlovka", where she wrote a statement about the attack on her son.

In early April 2009, during an inspection by employees of the Belgorod customs service, during the inspection of the luggage of one of the passengers of the Simferopol-Moscow train, a Russian citizen, goods with fascist symbols were found. 31 German awards, commemorative medals, rings, crosses, buckles, overcoat stripes, 40 swastika badges, a pair of German watches on a chain were confiscated from the passenger.

On April 3, the pastor of the Methodist Church of Smolensk, Alexander Vtorov, addressed an open letter to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. In this document, he asks the president: to prevent the bacchanalia of "Orthodox-state extremism of a fascist persuasion";.

On April 4, in the center of Ulyanovsk, the Simbirsk branch of the Russian National Union (RONS), the People's Cathedral movement and the regional youth organization Region 73, with the blessing of John Kosykh, rector of the Neopalimov Church in Ulyanovsk, held an "anti-sectarian" rally. About 30 people took part in it. The main demands of the protesters were calls for a ban on "sectarian groups and associations" in the region.

On April 7, 2009, Alexei Zhafyarov, deputy head of the Office of the Prosecutor General's Office for Supervision over the Enforcement of Laws on Federal Security, Interethnic Relations and Countering Extremism, gave an interview to journalists about crimes of an "extremist nature." In 2008, compared with the previous year, the growth of such crimes amounted to 29%, in total 460 such crimes were registered.

On April 7, 2009, at about 20:00 in Protvino (Moscow region), in Severny passage, a group of 8 young people, members of the Protivinsky branch of the DPNI, attacked two Uzbek citizens who were leaving the store near the bus stop "Bam-Tunnel-Stroy" Pyaterochka". The young men brutally kicked the foreigners and hit them on the head with a bottle. The attack was stopped by passers-by. The attackers were detained . In June 2009, the investigation into the case was completed .

The Tomsk diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church opposes the construction of a commercial and administrative complex in Tomsk on the site where the cell of St. Theodore of Tomsk was located in the 19th century. “Turning a place of pilgrimage into a marketplace is the height of blasphemy, an unheard-of desecration of both historical and spiritual memory.

A new chairman of the Committee for Relations with Religious Organizations in Moscow has been appointed. They became the former deputy prefect of the Central Administrative District, Mikhail Orlov. The corresponding decree has already been signed by Yu. Luzhkov. Previously, M. Orlov served as Deputy Prefect of the Central Administrative District of Moscow and oversaw the consumer market and services.

Summary The most relevant aspects of the implementation of freedom of conscience : Legislation concerning religious organizations : Problems concerning places of worship : Government patronage towards certain organizations : Other examples of discrimination and unjustified interference : The situation in the army and the penitentiary system : Religion and secular education : Insufficient protection against defamation and attacks The SOVA Information and Analytical Center presents its third

In early April, at the cemetery in the village of Plotnikovsky, Danilovsky District, Volgograd Region, monuments and tombstones were broken on several graves. This fact is under investigation. Sources In the Danilovsky district, vandals desecrated the grave of an internationalist warrior // KP.ru. 2009. April 6.