On May 26, Saratov hosted a practical seminar dedicated to topical issues in the activities of religious associations and the protection of the rights of believers. Some participants of the seminar said that in the regions the activities of "sectarians" could lead to destabilization of the situation in the religious sphere.

A Muslim student was expelled from the 2nd year of the Novocherkassk Higher Military Institute of Communications. The university management warned the student that religious instructions should not be followed within the walls of the educational institution. According to Islam.ru, he was expelled for performing religious rites (namaz) within the walls of an educational institution. Sources Muslim student expelled from Novocherkassk military university // Islam.ru. 2009. May 28.

On May 3, 2009, in St. Petersburg, at the intersection of Kapitan Voronin and Kharchenko streets, Saidmukhtor Davlatov, born in 1980, was beaten. The man was hospitalized in serious condition to the Department of Neurosurgery of the City Hospital No. 3, where he died from his injuries on May 11. No robbery reported. A criminal case has been initiated under Part 4 of Art.

On May 15, 2009, in Novosibirsk, people in civilian clothes, who later turned out to be employees of the Center for Combating Extremism at the Main Department of Internal Affairs of the Novosibirsk Region, detained Artyom Loskutov, an artist from the art group "Grandma after the funeral", the organizer of the famous "monsters". During the detention, a package with a "narcotic substance" was found at Loskutov's. On May 25, he was charged under Part 1 of Art.

On May 27, 2009, from the news about the beginning of the trial, it became known that on January 1, 2009, a citizen of Tajikistan, Nafassho Bandishoev, was killed in a bus in Yaroslavl. Two men did not like that the children of Tajik citizens speak their native language on the bus, and they unleashed a conflict with their parents.

On May 28, 2009, the Dorogomilovsky District Court of Moscow issued a guilty verdict in the case of the former leader of the Movement Against Illegal Immigration (DPNI) Alexander Belov (Potkin). They were sentenced to suspended imprisonment for a period of one and a half years with a two-year suspended sentence. He was charged with Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred) due to statements at the “Russian March” in 2007.

On May 27, 2009, it became known that the trial of the murder of a citizen of Tajikistan had begun in the Yaroslavl Regional Court. The attack on foreigners on the bus, as a result of which one man died, was attended by two - Dmitry Leontiev and Vitaly Dudashev. Dmitry Leontiev is charged with Part 2 of Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder committed out of hooligan motives), the motive of national hatred is not taken into account.

The head of the City Duma of Novocherkassk, V. Zolotarenko, expressed his concern about the discussed draft law "On the transfer of religious property to religious organizations." The law will affect 11 facilities in Novocherkassk (Rostov region). "Until the document is approved by the Ministry of Economic Development, there is nothing to comment on. The property that is in the gratuitous use of the church, including memorial churches, is still difficult to assess," he said.

were operating in Russia. On May 28, 2009, in the State Duma, at a round table on improving the legal foundations of regional security, Vyacheslav Sizov, head of the Department for Supervision of the Implementation of Laws on Federal Security of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, said that about two hundred "extremist" associations , numbering up to 10,000, Human.

On May 24, 2009 in Petrozavodsk festival "Modern Theater of Finland" the play directed by Jari Juutinen "I am Adolf Eichmann" was excluded from the competition and shown only as a video version to a group of experts. The organizers of the festival made such a decision, as the performance uses Nazi symbols and greetings. The director of the performance proposed to remove the paraphernalia from the performance, but the decision was not canceled.