On April 15, 2009, according to information from right-wing radical resources, activists of the Slavic Union and the Russian DPNI visited the department of national relations of the department of internal policy of the administration of the governor of the Perm Territory. According to right-wing radicals, the purpose of the meeting was to involve supporters of the SS and DPNI in public monitoring and control of interethnic relations in the region.

On April 30, 2009, the decision of the Samara District Court of Samara dated April 16, 2009 on recognizing the site www.antifa.com.ua and the materials posted on it as extremist came into force. The regional prosecutor's office discovered a website that posted information and calls for inciting ethnic hatred, including calls for violence.

On May 18, 2009, the sentence passed by the Moscow City Court on September 22, 2008 and came into force against 13 members of the Kalinichenko gang. upheld by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on May 5 Recall that the convicted were sentenced to terms ranging from 3 to 10 years in prison. Members of the group killed two people, including the international master of sports in chess from Yakutia, Sergei Nikolaev, and 9 victims were injured of varying severity.

On May 18, a rally was held in Novoshakhtinsk, Rostov Region, against the activities of Jehovah's Witnesses in the city. It was attended by about 100 people - Cossacks and representatives of public organizations. The action is supported by the Rostov diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.

On May 1, 2009, in the southeast of Moscow, near the Kozhukhovskaya metro station, 18 Nazi skinheads attacked two residents of Kabardino-Balkaria with rebar. Akhmed Maskov and Artur Borukaev were walking along the alley when short-haired young men jumped out of the bushes and began to brutally beat the men with reinforcing bars. The beating continued until the victims lost consciousness. The attackers fled, and passers-by called an ambulance. The victims were hospitalized.

Bishop of Lipetsk and Yelets Nikon (Vasin) spoke out against the social action "Feel the power of change!" in the city, organized by the community of Protestant churches.

On May 12, the Investigation Department at the Ufa Department of Internal Affairs opened a criminal case under Part 4 of Art. 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“misappropriation or embezzlement”) regarding the theft of funds allocated for the construction of a cathedral mosque. The investigation established that from October 2006 to December 2008, the general contractor LLC PKF Zhilstroykomplektsnab received donations in the amount of 294 million rubles.

On May 18, 2009, the human rights association "Agora" filed a cassation appeal with the Cassation Collegium of the Supreme Court of Russia against the decision to recognize as extremist and ban the activities of the international religious association "Tablighi Jamaat".

The prosecutor's office of the Tomsk district of the Tomsk region appealed to the district court with three statements of claim for the demolition of the houses of the Kandinsky dacha partnership. The owners of the buildings are members of the Society for Krishna Consciousness. An audit conducted by the prosecutor's office established that four capital construction projects were erected on agricultural land in Kandinka in violation of land legislation.

On May 15, in Kiselevsk, Kemerovo region, the imam of the city’s cathedral mosque and the region’s mufti from the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Asian Part of Russia (DUMACHR), Salavat Kuchumov, was not allowed to preach. Local businessman Bagautdin Pugoev, who financed the construction of the mosque, introduced the new imam to the believers.

May 18 Interregional Human Rights Association "AGORA" to the Cassation Board of the Supreme Court of Russia with a cassation appeal against the decision of the Supreme Court of May 7 to ban the international religious association "Tablighi Jamaat" in Russia.

On May 15-16, a conference "Totalitarian sects and the human right to a secure existence" was held at the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg State University, organized by the Russian Association of Centers for Religious Studies and the European Federation of Research Centers for Information on Sects. Greetings to the participants of the event were sent by the Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation Alexander Konovalov. A group of residents of St.

During the May 15-16 conference in St. Petersburg "Totalitarian sects and the human right to a secure existence," a representative of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation provided data on the number of religious organizations registered in Russia. As of January 1, 2009, according to the Ministry of Justice, 23,078 religious organizations were registered, of which 55% are structures of the Russian Orthodox Church.