April 15, 2009 in Yekaterinburg, in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate for the Sverdlovsk Region, a meeting was held on the results of operational activities in the first quarter of 2009. The event was chaired by the Chief of the Internal Affairs Directorate, Mikhail Nikitin. During the meeting, it was stated that "40 crimes of an extremist nature" were revealed in the region, 37 such crimes were committed by members of the Volkssturm group of Nazi skinheads .

The head of the regional committee for culture, Zinaida Ivanova, said that the Transfiguration Cathedral of the Mirozh Monastery will remain state property, and its custodian should be the Pskov Museum-Reserve. However, the remaining objects of the monastery (Stefan's Church, the abbot's house, the fraternal building) will be provided for free use to the community of monks of the Mirozhsky Monastery. “The rest of the monastery should live a monastic life.

April 17 on the official website of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation published a report on the activities of the Commissioner in 2008.

In 2009, Gazprom dobycha Yamburg allocated one million rubles for the construction of the Cathedral Mosque in Novy Urengoy as part of a targeted charity program. For the past three years, Gazprom dobycha Yamburg has been directing funds from the Muslim religious organization of the YaNAO for the construction of the Cathedral Mosque. In 2007, the company allocated one million rubles, in 2008 - two million, since the beginning of 2009 - one million rubles.

The Council for Interaction with Religious Associations under the Government of the Penza Region at a meeting on April 16 adopted a number of decisions concerning religious literature.

In Chelyabinsk, a criminal case has been initiated and is being investigated under paragraph "c" part 2 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity committed by an organized group) against six young people who are members of the Chingiz Chelyabinsk group and who distributed "extremist leaflets". The group was created in the period up to November 2008.