On June 17, it became known that a cooperation agreement was signed between the Irkutsk State Technical University I.M. Head and Irkutsk diocese. The document was signed at a meeting of the Academic Council of ISTU and extended for another three years the interaction between the Technical University and the Irkutsk diocese in the field of spiritual, moral and patriotic education of youth.

On June 17, 2009, the sentence of the leader of the Nazi skinhead group Mikhail Rodoshkevich came into force in Novosibirsk. Let us recall that on June 2, the regional court found the leader of the White Brotherhood group, Rodoshkevich, guilty under Art. 162 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (robbery) and released him from punishment for medical reasons. Rodoshkevich was sent for compulsory treatment to a psychiatric clinic.

On June 17, 2009, the justice of the peace of court district No. 204 of St. Petersburg found the commercial director of KMK LLC guilty of promoting and publicly displaying Nazi paraphernalia or symbols (part 1 of article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation) and sentenced him to administrative liability in the form of a fine.

On June 16, Archbishop Paolo Pezzi met with the head of the Public Relations Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Major General of Militia Valery Gribakin. At this meeting, an agreement was reached on the resumption of participation of the representative of the Catholic Church in the public council under the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In addition, General Gribakin promised assistance in organizing mass religious events.

The Orthodox Internet radio station "Sovremennik" began regular work in Kamchatka. According to the creators of the radio station, in its activities it is going to focus on "conveying to the listeners the idea that the teaching of the Gospel is not at all outdated today, on the contrary, right now it has become more relevant than before." Sources Orthodox Internet radio station began broadcasting in Kamchatka // Patriarchy.ru. 2009. June 17.

On June 16, the Moscow Helsinki Group and the movement "For Human Rights" issued a memorandum in which they called for the disbandment of special departments for countering extremism in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. And as far as we know, this view of the desirable future of these newly emerging departments is now shared by a growing number of people. This compels us to enter into a debate with the highly respected authors of the memorandum.

On June 15, the Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg ruled on a lawsuit filed by doctors from the Russian Institute of Microsurgery. Polenov. Doctors asked to be allowed to transfuse blood to a patient who is a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses religious organization. She categorically refused this procedure during the upcoming operation. The court forbade the surgeons to act against her will.

On June 17, 2009, in the city of Baltiysk, the Svetlogorsk Interdistrict Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for the Kaliningrad Region initiated a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity on the grounds of race).

On June 17, 2009, it became known that the criminal cases on the attacks on February 4, 2007 on a citizen of Cameroon and a citizen of Moldova were combined into one. According to the information of the Operative Cover Agency, a case was initiated against three detained young people - two Petersburgers 19 and 20 years old and a 22-year-old resident of the village of Mga, Leningrad Region - under Art. 30 and 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (attempted murder) and Art.

On June 17, it became known that a meeting of abbots and abbesses of the monasteries of the diocese was held in the Smolensk diocese. The meeting was headed by Bishop of Smolensk and Vyazemsky Theophylact. At the meeting, it was decided to create a council of abbots of monasteries. The Council will meet to discuss and solve current problems, the spiritual and economic activities of the monasteries, to establish contacts with the secular authorities of the districts and the region.

June 17, 2009 Investigation Department═for the Industrial District═g. In Izhevsk, the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for the Udmurt Republic completed an investigation and submitted to the court a criminal case on an attack on an Azerbaijani teenager committed in October 2008.

On June 16, 2009, a criminal case was initiated in Gorno-Altaisk under Art. 214 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (vandalism) on the fact of drawing swastikas on the office of the local branch of the Communist Party. Recall that the building was attacked by vandals on the night of June 11-12. Sources A criminal case was opened on the fact of drawing swastikas on the office of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in Gorno-Altaisk // Bankfax. 2009. June 17.

On June 16, 2009, the Justice of the Peace of Court District No. 210 of St. Petersburg convicted the head of Internet-Magazine LLC, associated with the Bukvoed chain of stores, of distributing extremist materials (Article 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation). In the store, there was a free sale of Georgiy Butmi's book "Kabala or Freedom", which was recognized as extremist and included in the official list of extremist literature under number 288.