At the beginning of April 2009 in Novorossiysk, on the street. Novorossiyskaya on the wall of the house, near the building of the administration of the Central District of the Republic, an image of a neo-Nazi swastika was noticed. The editorial staff of the media appealed to the administration of the Central District, but the image of the swastika was not painted over. Sources The request to remove the swastika from the walls remains unanswered // Municipal news feed of Novorossiysk. 2009.

On April 6, 2009, in the Leninsky district of Nizhny Novgorod, two unidentified men armed with a knife attacked a 24-year-old citizen of Kyrgyzstan. The attackers stabbed the victim several times in the back and fled the scene. No valuables were stolen from the native of Kyrgyzstan. The victim was hospitalized. A criminal case has been initiated under Art. Article 111 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm).

On April 8, 2009, the Simonovsky District Court of Moscow issued a guilty verdict on charges of hooliganism committed with a weapon or objects replacing it, motivated by hatred (paragraphs "a, b" part 1 of article 213). The accused in the case was Gennady Rusin, whom the court found guilty. However, the details of the verdict and the incident itself, for which Rusin was convicted, are unfortunately unknown to us. Official website of the Simonovsky District Court of Moscow

On April 8, 2009, the Gryazinsky District Court of Lipetsk convicted the "ideological inspirer" of the local Nazi skinheads, 34-year-old Viktor Elchaninov. The leader of the "skinheads" was sentenced to 10 years in prison with a term to be served in a strict regime colony. V. Elchaninov was charged with Part 1 of Art. 105 (murder), art. 222 (illegal possession of weapons), Art.

On April 8, 2008, a case was transferred to the Leninsky Court of Makhachkala under the article on inciting hatred on the basis of nationality and professional affiliation (law enforcement officers) against employees of the Dagestan newspaper Chernovik. The newspaper's editor-in-chief, Nadira Isaeva, is accused under paragraph "b" of Part 2 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of hatred using official position).

In early April 2009, the Department for Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for the Ryazan Region opened a criminal case under Part 1, Part 2 of Art. 282.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organization of an extremist community).

Orthodox Christians of Perm appealed to the authorities of the city with a request to postpone the city-wide subbotnik, which was to be held on April 18, on Holy Saturday. Their request was granted. A decision was made to postpone the action to April 25. Sources At the request of believers, the authorities of Perm have changed the date of the subbotnik scheduled for Holy Saturday // Interfax-religion. 2009. 9 April.

On April 8, 2009, the Khabarovsk prosecutor's office approved the indictment and submitted to the court the case against the National Bolsheviks Tatyana Kharlamova and Igor Schuka under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting national hatred), under part 2 of Art. 282.2 (participation in the activities of an extremist organization) and art. 319 (insulting a representative of authority).

The believers of Suzdal sent an appeal to the President of the Russian Federation D. Medvedev in connection with the seizure of churches from the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (ROAC). The believers are asking the President for assistance in preserving churches after the arrival of the ROAC. They express the hope that the President "as the guarantor of the Constitution" will protect their rights to freedom of religion.

In March 2009, unidentified persons desecrated 18 graves at the Jewish cemetery in Sebezh (Pskov region). Jewish and several Orthodox burial places were damaged, tombstones were split, wreaths and crosses were broken and burned. On March 30, 2009, a local resident filed a complaint with the police about the desecration of the graves at the cemetery. until that day, according to the applicant, the burial sites were in order.

The Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the European part of Russia (DUMER) has published a list of Islamic literature approved by it. This list included two books by the Turkish theologian Said Nursi , previously included in the Federal List of Extremist Materials. We are talking about the works of S. Nursi from the collection "Risale-i-Nur" - "Staff of Moussa" and "Fundamentals of Sincerity".