The Muslim community of Kazan has achieved the closure of the gay club "Egoist". The club opened in September 2008 on the street. Bauman, 42, Muslims protested against its opening. In February 2009, they organized a collection of signatures under an appeal to the mayor of Kazan demanding to close the club. In April, by order of the city administration, the club was closed. Sources The Muslim community of Kazan achieved the closure of the gay club "Egoist" // Islam.ru. 2009. April 24.

Employees of the administration of the site "Islam in Kamenka" (Penza region) were summoned to the prosecutor's office, where they were warned about the undesirability of placing in the "Library" section of the electronic versions of the books "Reminder to a Muslim" and "In the footsteps of Satan." None of these books is included in the Federal List of Extremist Literature. According to the site's moderator R.

April 25, 2009 in Kazan, during the Premier League match "Rubin" (Kazan) - "Spartak" (Moscow), fans of the Moscow club unfurled a banner with a swastika in the stands, dedicated to the anniversary of Adolf Hitler. For some time, a banner with the inscription "Happy Anniversary, Grandpa! 120" appeared on the podium . A swastika was drawn inside the last digit. (Allusion to the 120th anniversary of Hitler's birth).

On April 23, 2009, the website of the Movement Against Illegal Immigration (DPNI) was closed by an ISP. The DPNI website was hosted in Germany. According to the DPNI, the site was closed as "calling for an armed rebellion against the current legitimate government of the Russian Federation." Based on materials from right-wing radical sites.

At the end of April 2009, in Anapa, the investigation of the criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting ethnic hatred or enmity) against a local resident who in 2008 "initiated a discussion of a topic on the Kuban.ru forum concerning people of Caucasian nationality living in the Krasnodar Territory" .

At the end of April, several tombstones were destroyed and crosses pulled out at the cemetery in the village of Ivanteevka, Saratov Region. Looking for vandals. Sources In the Saratov region, vandals destroyed a cemetery // RodnoyGorod - Saratov. 2009. April 27.

On April 27, the Orthodox TV channel Spas announced a change in leadership. The creator of the channel, Alexander Batanov, resigned from the post of general director. TV journalist Boris Kostenko has been appointed as the new leader. According to the president of the Radonezh media holding, Yevgeny Nikiforov, this decision is due "primarily to the channel's very difficult financial situation." Sources Boris Kostenko headed Spas TV channel // Interfax-religion. 2009. April 27.

In mid-April 2009, in Volgograd, in the Dzerzhinsky district, on Kosmonavtov Street, a stencil image of Hitler, swastikas and pro-fascist inscriptions appeared on the wall of a building in the courtyard of the house.

The authorities of Yaroslavl are seeking the eviction of the Cultural Center of the Tatars from the building at the address: st. Sobinova, d.50. This building has been in free use of the center for 10 years. Despite the fact that the lease agreement has not yet expired, the authorities are going to sell the house. The cultural center defends its right to the building through the court, the lawsuit continues for six months.

The prosecutor's office of the Khasavyurtovsky district of Dagestan conducted an inspection of the work of law enforcement agencies and local governments for the implementation of legislation on countering extremist activities, as well as the legality of the activities of religious institutions. During the inspection, 10 mosques that do not have state registration were identified in the district.

In mid-April 2009, in an electric train heading to Kolomna, unknown persons attacked Baimurat Allaberiyev, a visitor from Tajikistan. According to the victim, they approached him with the question "What are you doing here?" and beaten for no apparent reason. As a result of the attack, the victim's teeth were knocked out. Sources Gruzov R.Jimmy-tenor // Big city. 2009. April 23.

On April 24, a picket organized by Orthodox believers took place in Lipetsk. About 20 protesters demanded that the arbitration court resume consideration of the claim for the transfer to the Orthodox community of the building of the Trinity Church, occupied by the community of Evangelical Christian Baptists. The temple was handed over to the Baptists at the end of 1988 by order of the local administration.

On April 27, 2009, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Samara delivered a judgment in the case under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national, racial or religious hatred committed in public or using the media). The accused Maxim Peshkov was sentenced to 6 months. imprisonment conditionally with a probationary period of 6 months. The lawyer is going to the court's decision and seek recognition of the innocence of the defendant.

At the end of April 2009, the criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity) in relation to a 37-year-old unemployed resident of Kozmodemyansk. The accused, who wrote messages on the Odnoklassniki website "aimed at inciting national hatred and enmity, humiliation and insulting the national dignity of the Mari people," fully admitted his guilt and repented.

On April 23, the head of the general education department of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Irina Taradanova, said during a press conference that “the fundamentals of Orthodoxy and other Orthodox-oriented subjects are studied by 430 thousand schoolchildren in 39 regions,” i.e. 70% of students. Some schoolchildren study the basics of Islam, Buddhism and Judaism, but, according to I.