At a meeting on April 28, 2009, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Mari El upheld the decision of the Yoshkar-Ola City Court to recognize Vitaly Tanakov's brochure "The Priest Speaks" as extremist material. The defense intends to appeal this decision to the supervisory authority. In addition, Tanakov's complaint is in the European Court of Human Rights. Inc. Inf. See also the section "Nationalism and xenophobia" .

On April 29, 2009, the head of the Movement Against Illegal Immigration (DPNI), Alexander Belov (Potkin), announced his resignation from the post of head of the organization. A few hours later, the leader of the "Slavic Union" (SS), Dmitry Demushkin, announced his intention to also leave his post. He stated that the issue of leadership of the movement would be decided at the DPNI congress, and before that, the National Council of DPNI would collectively manage the organization.

The main temple of the former Kirsanovsky Tikhvin-Bogoroditsky convent of the Tambov diocese - the Tikhvin Church - was transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church. Until recently, an agricultural technical school was located on the territory of the monastery, and the temple was used to store equipment. The head of the city, O.

On April 28, 2009, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Mari El upheld the decision of the Yoshkar-Ola City Court to recognize Vitaly Tanakov's brochure "The Priest Speaks" as extremist material. The defense intends to appeal this decision to the supervisory authority. In addition, Tanakov's complaint is at the stage of admissibility in the European Court of Human Rights. Let us remind you that we do not consider verdict , nor the current claims against the brochure, to be justified.

April 22-23, 2009 Sochi hosted a seminar-meeting of leaders and observers of the media of the Southern Federal District "Legal protection and prospects for the integration of displaced population in the North Caucasus." The seminar was organized by the Russian Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the Russian Federation and the Alliance of Regional Press Leaders (ARS-Press).

On April 28, it became known that the board of the First Arbitration Court of Appeal in Vladimir decided to uphold the court's decision regarding the seizure of the Kresto-Nikolsky and Lazarevsky churches and to refuse the complaint of the ROAC. The decision can be appealed within two months in cassation to the Federal Arbitration Court of the Volga-Vyatka District (Nizhny Novgorod). On April 29, the court upheld the decision to confiscate the Tsarekonstantinovsky temple.

On the night of April 26-27, 2009, once again the Dmitrov-Cherkasskoe cemetery was desecrated near Tver. 21 graves in the Jewish part of the cemetery were damaged. Tombstones were covered with the word "EVIL", and the portraits on them were crossed out. The desecration occurred on the eve of the Orthodox holiday of commemoration of the dead, Radonitsa. Sources On the eve of Radonitsa, Jewish graves were desecrated at the Dmitrov-Cherkassky cemetery // Tver Information Agency. 2009.

On April 28, 2009, the Magistrate's Court of the Pervomaisky District of the Kirov Region found Nikolai Golikov , editor of the Vyatskaya Special Newspaper, guilty under Art. 13.15 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (abuse of freedom of the mass media).

On April 29, the head of the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for combating extremism, Yuri Kokov, announced that members of youth groups who were engaged in desecration of places of worship and arson of churches were detained in Yekaterinburg and Vladimir. "They were preparing to commit more serious crimes, because weapons were seized from the detainees," he said.

On April 20, 2009, the Kirovsky District Court of Tomsk issued a guilty verdict in the case of posting neo-Nazi videos on the website "Alternative tracker of Tomsk". The accused, 35-year-old Andrei Kolchanov, was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity) and sentenced to 180 hours of compulsory labor. It also became known that Tomsk himself turned himself in to the FSB Directorate for the Tomsk region.

On April 21, 2009, the Krasnodarsky Courier newspaper published an article by Olga Panina entitled "Unfree Freedom of Conscience", the meaning of which boils down to the fact that "totalitarian sects" pose various threats, both to the individual and to the state.

On April 27, 2009, FC Spartak sent an official letter to the Prosecutor General of Russia, Yuri Chaika, with a request to initiate a criminal case against those who displayed a neo-Nazi banner with a swastika in Kazan during the match between Rubin (Kazan) and Spartak (Moscow). On April 29, 2009, the head of the public security militia of the Kazan Internal Affairs Directorate, Sergey Chankin, announced that this nationalist action was being checked.

On April 28, it became known that unknown persons had desecrated monuments in the Jewish part of the cemetery in the village of Dmitrovo-Cherkassy near Tver. “The inscription “Evil” was written on 21 Jewish burial sites in Dmitrovo-Cherkassy with a black marker,” the regional Internal Affairs Directorate reported. An investigation is underway. Sources A Jewish cemetery near Tver was desecrated // Gazeta.ru. 2009. April 28.

On April 28, 2009, it became known that a criminal case was being investigated in Kirov under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity) on the fact of the appearance of the inscription "Death to the Russians" during the "Russian March" on the wall of house No. 60 on Oktyabrsky Prospekt, along the route of the march. According to the conclusion of the socio-psychological examination, the inscription excites national hatred.