On May 13, 2009, at a meeting of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika presented a report on the state of law and order in 2008, a significant part of which was devoted to the problem of extremism.

On May 2, an act of vandalism was committed in the village of Falina, Slobodo-Turinsky District, Sverdlovsk Region. About 10 wooden crosses were broken, 11 tombstones were turned upside down. The police found that the pogrom at the cemetery was staged by three local schoolchildren. A criminal case has been initiated under article 214 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“vandalism”).

April 17, 2009 in Ryazan, in the Gorky Regional Library, a round table was held on the topic of countering extremism among young people, organized by the Ministry of Territorial Entities of the Ryazan Region and the Public Chamber. Despite the stated topic of the meeting, the concept of "Nazis" was never mentioned at it. Moreover, the chairman of the committee on youth affairs of the Ryazan region called them "teenagers with wrong views .

On May 13, 2009, 2009, the President of Russia signed the "National Security Strategy of the Russian Federation until 2020", in which, in particular, considerable attention is paid to the problem of "extremism". The development of "nationalist sentiments, xenophobia, separatism and violent extremism, including under the slogans of religious radicalism" are included in the forecast of negative trends that will have a significant impact on the development of the state in the coming years (p.

On May 13, 2009, further additions were made to the Federal List of Extremist Materials on the website of the Ministry of Justice . It included paragraphs. 368 - 370. As of May 13, 2009, the list includes 370 items (in fact, 362 items). May 13 update of the Federal List of Extremist Materials: Leaflets with the text "Jewish patriots of Russia...". The decision was made by the Leningradsky District Court of Kaliningrad on 12.08.2008.

On May 9, 2009, in Blagoveshchensk (Amur Region), on the Amur embankment, a group of young people beat up several black cadets of the Far East High School. The attack took place on Krasnoflotskaya Street near house number 133. According to eyewitnesses, one of the African students received a serious head wound from a broken bottle. Witnesses of the attack reported by telephone to the police. The squad that arrived at the scene detained one of the attackers - a 24-year-old Amur resident.

At the beginning of May, a bill was introduced into the State Duma, suggesting the possibility of including subjects on the basics of Orthodoxy, other Christian denominations, as well as Islam, Judaism and Buddhism in the state educational standard at the level of federal subjects.

On May 13, 2009, it became known that in the city of Polyarnye Zori (Murmansk region) the case of a 20-year-old citizen accused under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity). A young man who belongs to the St. Petersburg branch of the "Movement Against Illegal Immigration" is accused of inflicting nationalist inscriptions and swastikas on the building of a local vocational school in November 2008.

On May 6, 2009, a draft federal law "On Amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (on the establishment of criminal liability for infringement on historical memory in relation to events that took place during the Second World War)" was submitted to the State Duma. The project was submitted by a group of deputies, including Boris Gryzlov and Pavel Krasheninnikov. Legislators propose to introduce Art.

The Department of Muslims of the Perm Territory created a Muslim consumer society in the region. "Given that the economic processes in society are getting worse, we decided to create an instrument for joint survival for the Perm Territory," Mukhammedgali Khuzin, Mufti of the Perm Territory, said on May 12. "Most of our faithful Muslim Tatars and Bashkirs are villagers, they experience difficulties with the sale of their products, obtaining support.

Members of the Interreligious Council of Kalmykia appealed to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin with a request to help the Dalai Lama visit the republic this year. "A meeting with the spiritual leader of the Buddhists of the world would be the best gift that the Russian leadership could present to the Kalmyk people in the significant year of the 400th anniversary of joining Russia," the appeal says.

On May 7, 2009, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recognized the international religious association Tablighi Jamaat as extremist. According to the Prosecutor General's Office, "The goals of this religious association are to establish world domination through the spread of a radical form of Islam and the creation of a single Islamic state "World Caliphate" on the basis of regions with a traditionally Muslim population .