On August 14, 2009, in the Pskov region, on the walls of the Spaso-Kazansky Siman convent, the inscriptions "Allah Akbar", "a mosque for you", a swastika and five-pointed stars were found. The policemen, who arrived at the call of the abbess of the monastery, said that three immigrants from Uzbekistan working in the monastery could be involved in this, and decided to interrogate them, but the abbess refused.

On July 28, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia sent a letter to the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, Vladimir Lukin, in which he expressed concern about the violation of the constitutional rights of citizens who refuse “to use digital technologies that involve assigning an identification number to a person, creating databases that simultaneously contain information about various aspects of human life." According to the patriarch, “a certain part of our society,

On March 25, Magomedkhan Gaziev, the owner of the Lotos store and the head of the charitable public organization, applied to the Soviet District Department of Internal Affairs of Makhachkala. He reported on the March 8 raid on his store. About 50 people entered the premises (about a hundred more were left on the street) and asked if the film "Ordinary Sufism" was available.

Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation Andrei Fursenko confirmed that in three years the educational field “Spiritual and Moral Education” will be included in the school curriculum, within which students will be taught the history of religions, the cultural foundations of one of the “traditional” religions, or secular ethics. Let us recall that in July, Dmitry Medvedev announced the start of an experiment in teaching these disciplines in 18 regions.

On August 16, 2009, the Angarsk City Court (Irkutsk Region) began considering a case on recognizing one of the articles in a local newspaper as extremist material. On March 1, 2007, the newspaper "Vsya Nedelya. Angarsk" published an anti-Semitic poem by G.

On August 19, 2009, the Judicial Collegium of the Moscow City Court approved the verdict handed down in May 2009 to the former leader of the Movement Against Illegal Immigration (DPNI) Alexander Belov (Potkin). Thus, the court rejected both the appeal of the defense of the convict, which asked him to be acquitted, and the presentation of the prosecutor's office, which considered the sentence too light. Recall that the Dorogomilovsky Court of Moscow found A. Belov guilty under Art.

On August 14, on the walls of the Spaso-Kazansky Siman convent in the Pskov region, inscriptions "Allah Akbar", "a mosque for you", a swastika and five-pointed stars were found. The policemen, who arrived at the call of the abbess of the monastery, offered to interrogate immigrants from Uzbekistan working in the monastery, but the abbess refused. “I asked the operatives to leave the monastery, I told them that I didn’t need such help.

The Arbitration Court of the Kaliningrad Region satisfied the claim of the parish of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior and ordered the Kaliningrad Interdistrict Inspectorate N8 of the Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation to return 2,794,000 rubles to the parish. The court found that the tax inspectorate unreasonably delayed the decision on the return of overpaid VAT, and also returned the VAT in violation of the deadlines.

On August 14, the Collegium for Criminal Cases of the St. Petersburg City Court satisfied the complaints of Uzbek citizen Urinboy Ergashev against the decision of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation of June 22, 2009 to extradite Ergashev. The court decided to cancel the extradition order. Ergashev was released from custody in the courtroom.

On August 16, 2009, in Moscow, at about 18.30, on Polyarnaya Street near the Polyarny cinema, two young people (looking from 18 to 20 years old), armed with brass knuckles and a sharp cutting object, attacked 8th grade students Georgy Mukanyan, a native of Armenia, and a native Chechnya Aslambek Iznaurov. The attackers insulted the "national dignity" of the teenagers. Teenagers go in for sports in the kickboxing section and managed to fight back.

On the night of August 17, the Sunna store in Makhachkala burned down, selling Islamic literature, clothing and paraphernalia. Representatives of firefighters believe that the fire could have occurred due to an explosive device of low power. The locals heard the pop before the fire. The owner of the store, Mahmud Kurbanov, believes that supporters of the dominant Sufi trend in Islam in the republic may be involved in the arson.

On April 14, 2009, the Pskov City Court of Arbitration partially satisfied the claim of the Spaso-Eleazarovsky convent and its abbess Elisaveta (Belyayeva) against journalist Oleg Dementyev. The abbess demanded to recognize his article "The Wasp's Nest" under the Golden Domes", published in January 2008 in the newspaper "Pskov Frontier", discrediting the honor, dignity and business reputation of the monastery and to recover 1 million rubles from the author as compensation for moral damage.