The priests of the Yekaterinburg diocese began to develop a school textbook on “Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture.” Archbishop Vikenty said at the meeting that the diocese he heads has developed “good, good relations” with the regional Ministry of Education: agreements have been concluded between the diocese and the ministry, and city education departments. According to him, about 3 thousand Sverdlovsk teachers have been trained and can optionally teach Orthodoxy in schools.

On the night of July 15-16, the head of the Interregional Organization "Committee against Torture" Igor Kalyapin was stopped by officers of the anti-extremism department at the entrance to Nizhny Novgorod, where he was heading by car. Kalyapin was detained, all the books of the human rights report that were in the trunk of his car were confiscated for "research".

In the Rostov region, the prosecutor's office is considering several cases of persecution involving Jehovah's Witnesses.

On July 3, 2009, the investigative department for the Central District of Krasnoyarsk, the Investigative Committee of the RF Investigative Committee for the Krasnoyarsk Territory, issued a decision to refuse to initiate a criminal case on the placement of extremist articles on the Internet on the Plotina.Net! due to the absence of an event of a crime under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

Bishop Mercury of Zaraisk, Chairman of the Synodal Department of Religious Education and Catechesis, was appointed to the Council of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation for Federal State Educational Standards. Vladyka Mercury became a member of the Council in accordance with Decree No.

As it became known on July 16, 2009, from a report by the prosecutor's office of the Rostov region, representatives of Jehovah's Witnesses face various types of persecution under anti-extremist legislation in several districts.

The administration of Volgograd decided to demolish part of the historical building of the only synagogue in the city. Chairman of the Council of the Volgograd Jewish Community Center Yael Ioffe, the demolition commission under the administration of Volgograd decided to dismantle the annex to the synagogue. According to representatives of the Jewish community, the extension to the main building is its organic integral part.

In Tatarstan, November 27, 2009 was declared a day off in connection with the beginning of the celebration on this day of the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha. The corresponding decree was issued by the head of the republic, Mintimer Shaimiev. The holiday is usually celebrated for three days. Sources Eid al-Adha holiday in Tatarstan declared non-working // Interfax-religion. 2009. July 15.

On June 30, 2009, the far-right organization of the Republic of Komi "Frontier of the North" announced the beginning of patrolling, in agreement with the locals, as vigilantes of the streets of the capital of the region, Syktyvkar.

On July 13, the last cycle of sessions of the Federal Arbitration Court of the Volga-Vyatka District took place in Nizhny Novgorod to consider cassation complaints from the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (ROAC) against the decisions of the Vladimir Arbitration Court on the seizure of churches from the communities of believers in Suzdal and its environs . At the court session, the petition of the representative of the ROAC M.

The government of the Nizhny Novgorod region allocated 4.8 million rubles from the reserve fund for events in the framework of the celebration of the Days of Remembrance of St. Seraphim of Sarov and St. Macarius of Zheltovodsky and Unzhensky. The festivities will be held on August 1 in Diveevo and on August 7 in the Makaryevsky Monastery. Sources The Nizhny Novgorod government allocated 4.8 million rubles for the days of memory of Seraphim Sarovsky and Makariy Zheltovodsky // Portal-Credo.ru.

In early July 2009, the Magistrate's Court of the Chudovsky District of the Novgorod Region issued a guilty verdict against Alexander Belyaev, a citizen of the city, who attacked a man with a non-Slavic appearance in March 2009. The defendant was found guilty of a crime under paragraph "b" part 2 of Art. 115 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (intentional infliction of minor bodily harm, committed on the basis of national hatred).

On June 29, 2009, the city court of Borovichi (Novgorod region) delivered a guilty verdict to four citizens who beat a local hospital doctor in October 2008 for racist reasons. All four were convicted under Part 3 of Art. 111 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm, committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy, motivated by national hatred).

On June 30, 2009, an attack was made on the Center of the Jewish National Cultural Autonomy (NKA) of Komi in Syktyvkar: a stone was thrown through the window of the building, breaking the glass. Fortunately, at the time of the incident, only the watchman was in the room. As it turned out, this was not the first attack on the building in 2009. In winter, a window was also broken in it.