Dmitry Medvedev sent an instruction to the Office of the Plenipotentiary of the President of the Russian Federation in the Central Federal District to sort out the current situation with the churches of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (ROAC). to the President Recall that in early April, a group of believers sent an appeal asking for assistance in preserving churches outside the parishes of the ROAC. The applicants received an official response from the administration of the head of state.

On April 12, the Institute for Freedom of Conscience sent a statement to President Dmitry Medvedev. In this document, the Co-Chairs of the Council of the Institute for Freedom of Conscience, S. Buryanov and S. Mozgovoy express the attitude of the Institute to the Expert Council under the Ministry of Justice and anti-extremist legislation.

In the Jewish Autonomous Region (JAO), a criminal case was initiated under Part 1 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public calls for extremist activities). This was reported in the press service of the Federal Security Service of Russia for the Jewish Autonomous Region on April 13, 2009.

On March 16, 2009, four teenagers attacked a 35-year-old native of Tajikistan in a Moscow subway car at the Komsomolskaya metro station. The attack was accompanied by nationalist cries. The woman was thrown out of the car at the bus stop, the train with the teenagers left. The victim did not contact the police. Inc. inf.

The Russian Association of Researchers of Religion (ROIR) calls on religious scholars who were included in the Expert Council under the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation to leave it. "We appeal to those few religious scholars who are included in the Council to realize the unseemly and destructive role that is destined for them in the Council, and leave its ranks.

In early April 2009, the Kuibyshevsky District Court of Omsk delivered a sentence under Art. 207 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (knowingly false report of an act of terrorism) to a 20-year-old young man. The court sentenced him to 1 year suspended sentence with a probationary period of 1 year. The verdict did not enter into force.

On the evening of April 9, in the Rybinsk district of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, 28 tombstones were destroyed at the cemetery. The offender turned out to be a 15-year-old teenager who was at that moment in a state of intoxication. Sources Drunk teenager destroyed 30 tombstones at a village cemetery in the Krasnoyarsk Territory // Interfax-religion. 2009. April 13.

The vice-rector of the Kazan Theological Seminary, hegumen Kirill (Ilyukhin), became a member of the interregional presidium of scientific and cultural organizations. He was appointed vice chairman of the presidium. This association was created in order to establish closer contacts between its members, establish reliable cooperation and thereby significantly expand the scope of their activities. Today, the association includes seven organizations.

On February 13, 2009, the anti-extremism unit of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Bryansk Region reported on crimes of an "extremist nature" committed in the region in 2008. According to the department, in 2008 the number of extremist crimes increased by 65%, and the number of persons who committed them - by 76%. In 2008, 7 crimes under Part 1 of Art.

The defrocked former Bishop of Chukotka and Anadyr Diomede (Dzyuban) sent an open letter to Russian President D. Medvedev. In this document, Diomede asks the president to facilitate the initiation of a criminal case and conduct a qualified investigation into cases of “violation of the rights” of him and his supporters.

On April 10, 2009, the investigating authorities of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for the Kemerovo Region completed the investigation of the criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (actions aimed at inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliating human dignity) against Roman Borisov, a former student of the Novokuznetsk Pedagogical Institute.

for a false report about an impending explosion of a synagogue. The Kuibyshevsky District Court of Omsk sentenced a resident of the city to a year of suspended liberty with a probationary period of one year The offender was found guilty of knowingly falsely reporting an act of terrorism (Article 207 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The verdict has not entered into force and can be appealed to the Omsk Regional Court.