On April 22, 2009, details of the preliminary investigation into the case of members of the Nazi skinhead group Volkssturm, who were detained in the Sverdlovsk Region in February-March 2008, became known. The investigation found that gang members attacked people of non-Slavic appearance between the end of 2006 and February 2008. During the searches, videos of the attacks were seized from the suspects.

On April 13, 2009, in one of the grocery stores in Yaroslavl, a group of young people beat up a Panamanian citizen, a student at the Orlando Carrera Medical Academy. At first, the foreigner was insulted, then they began to beat him. Carrera received a closed craniocerebral injury, concussion and multiple bruises. The victim and his friend, who witnessed the attack, immediately contacted the police. Carrera also contacted the Panamanian embassy.

On Easter, Metropolitan of Voronezh and Borisoglebsk Sergiy (Fomin) presented financial assistance to 25 poor families in the region. The decision to allocate 10,000 rubles to these families at a time was made at a meeting of the diocesan council. Sources 25 families of low-income Voronezh residents received cash benefits from the hands of the ruling bishop // Blagovest-info. 2009. April 22.

On April 20, 2009, the trial in the case of National Bolsheviks Roman Mishurov and Ilya Shunin under part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (participation in the activities of an extremist organization). Recall that Shunin and Mishurov are accused of administering the website of the NBP banned for extremism in Samara. Sources The first meeting on the case of the Samara National Bolsheviks was held // Natsbol.ru. 2009. April 20.

On April 22, speaking at the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation, the head of the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for combating extremism, Yuri Kokov, said that during the winter of 2009, the activities of more than ten gangs of "Wahhabis" were suppressed in the North Caucasus. We are talking about supporters of the movement, "having nothing to do with the foundations of traditional Islam," said the representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

On April 22, 2009, it became known that a criminal case was opened in Yoshkar-Ola under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 (participation in the activities of an extremist organization) against the National Bolshevik Dmitry Rusov. The reason for initiating the case was Rusov's participation in the rally of the Volya party. Held in Yoshkar-Ola on March 28, 2009, where he distributed books by Eduard Limonov, brochures and newspapers.

On April 22, 2009, in Nizhny Novgorod, after a match at the Severny stadium, a group of ultra-right fans of FC Nizhny Novgorod attacked visitors to the concert of the Scottish punk band Exploited, held at the Rocco club, which opposes racism and fascism. Concert goers tried to run away, one of them was caught up by the attackers and beaten with fists, feet and glass beer bottles. The beating was stopped by police officers who arrived at the scene. Two attackers were detained.

The press service of the governor of the Kursk region reported that about 50 million rubles would be required to complete the construction of the Root Desert. Recall that the Kursk authorities urged the population to participate in the restoration of this monastery and themselves financially supported the construction.

On April 21, a meeting of the board of the Congress of Religious Associations of the Tyumen Region (CROTO) was held, dedicated to the formation of the Expert Council under the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation. The fact that half of the members of the Council are lobbyists for the interests of the Russian Orthodox Church causes the participants in the meeting to fear about the possible start of a "witch hunt", i.e. discrimination against non-Orthodox religious organizations.

On April 21, a picket was held in the center of Moscow against the seizure of 13 Suzdal churches from the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (ROAC). The picket was attended by the head of the ROAC, Metropolitan of Suzdal and Vladimir Valentin (Rusantsov), who was previously detained while trying to enter the church to perform divine services, and 37 Suzdal clerics and laity. Another 12 people were from Moscow, the Moscow region and St. Petersburg.

The Institute of Religion and Law made an open appeal to the Minister of Justice Alexander Konovalov regarding the composition of the Expert Council under the Ministry of Justice. "A number of members of the Expert Council are not only representatives of a specific religious organization, but also people known for their struggle against non-Orthodox organizations and movements in our country from the standpoint of Orthodox sectarianism.

On April 22, 2009, the St. Petersburg City Court delivered a guilty verdict against 18-year-old Sergei Gerasimchuk, 20-year-old Vladimir Lobanov, and three 16-year-old boys who attacked a citizen of Kyrgyzstan in January 2008. Earlier, the investigation believed that the murder "may have motives of a nationalist nature ," but judging by the guilty verdict, the investigation eventually qualified the attack as robbery, not nationalist.

On the eve of April 20, 2009 in St. Petersburg, stenciled portraits of Hitler and the inscriptions "SS" were applied to the houses along Stachek Avenue . The administration of the Kirovsky district of the city said that the inscriptions had already been painted over. According to which article a criminal case was initiated, it is not reported. Sources The Nazis mutilated a whole quarter in St. Petersburg with a swastika // TVNZ. 2009. April 22.