The Nizhny Novgorod diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church opposed the advertising of funeral services. The diocese first applied with a statement to the Ministry of Support and Development of Small Business, Consumer Market and Services of the Nizhny Novgorod Region. The Ministry, in turn, sent a letter for consideration to the Advertising Council at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) of the Nizhny Novgorod Region.

On the 9th of july 2009 the OSCE meeting on freedom of religious choice and freedom of opinion opened in Vienna. SOVA Center for Information and Analysis together with International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) issued the following statement.

On July 8, a meeting was held between the Deputy Secretary of the Presidium of the General Council of United Russia, the head of the State Duma Committee of the Russian Federation on Labor and Social Policy, Andrei Isaev, and the Secretary of the Presidium of the General Council of United Russia, Vice-Speaker of the State Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, with Patriarch Kirill. A.

On July 8, 2009, the Nizhny Novgorod District Court of Nizhny Novgorod sentenced a man who participated in a group attack motivated by racist or neo-Nazi reasons. The attack itself took place on March 23, 2008, but we do not know any circumstances of this crime. The defendant was charged under Part 2 of Article 213 (hooliganism committed by a group of persons motivated by hatred); pp.

On July 9, 2009, a representative of the SOVA Center spoke at the Additional OSCE Meeting on the topic “Freedom of Religion or Belief” in Vienna. Dear Chairman, dear participants of the meeting, The Russian Federation generally fulfills its obligations within the OSCE in the field of implementing freedom of conscience, although there are many violations (see the reports of the SOVA Center about this).