On August 14-17, 2009, the Analytical Center of Yuri Levada (Levada-Center) conducted a survey on teaching in national languages ​​and the basics of Orthodox culture. The survey involved 1,600 people in 128 settlements in 46 regions of the country. Almost 70% of respondents have a positive attitude towards the introduction of the Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture in schools.

On August 28, 2009, the Moscow City Court dismissed the prosecutor's complaint against the decision of the Basmanny Court to cancel the warning issued to the channel in September 2008 about the inadmissibility of extremist activity. Recall that despite the warning issued in October 2008, Rossvyazkomnadzor extended the channel's license until October 17, 2013. Sources The Moscow City Court did not recognize the animated series "South Park" as extremist // Kommersant-online. 2009. August 28.

At the beginning of September 2009, about 10 tombstones on the graves of Armenians were destroyed at the cemetery of the village of Vasyurinskaya in the Dinsky district of the Krasnodar Territory. Nazi symbols were painted on the tombstones and inscriptions were written "insulting the national dignity of representatives of the Armenian nationality . " Three teenagers, residents of the village, suspected of committing a crime, were detained. The issue of initiating a criminal case under Art.

In early September, an act of vandalism was committed at the cemetery of the village of Vasyurinskaya in the Dinsky district of the Krasnodar Territory. About ten tombstones at the graves of Armenians were destroyed and desecrated with Nazi symbols. In addition to the painted swastika, the vandals also left notes insulting the national dignity of representatives of the Armenian nationality. On suspicion of committing this crime, three teenagers, residents of the village, were detained.

On September 2, it became known that the first floor of a stone building, which previously housed a city almshouse with a church in the name of St. Simeon of Verkhoturye, was transferred to the gratuitous use of the Perm diocese. In recent years, the building housed a regional center for medical prevention. The temple building was transferred to the Perm diocese for free use for a period of 5 years.

On September 3, 2009, the Central District Court of Omsk upheld the verdict of the Magistrate's Court of the Central District of Omsk against Alexander Khinevich, who revived the banned by the court. "Slavic community of the Temple of the Veda of Perun of the Spiritual Administration of the Asgard Vesya Belovodye of the Old Russian Inglistic Church of the Orthodox Old Believers-Ingliings" Recall that Khinevich was found guilty under Part 1 of Art.

On August 13, 2009, a meeting of the journalistic Grand Jury was held in Yekaterinburg, dedicated to the situation around the warnings about the inadmissibility of extremist activities issued by the news agency "Ura.ru". Journalists, as well as regional and federal commissioners for human rights, intend to find out if the persecution of the news agency was ordered.

On September 3, 2009, one of the defendants in the case of the Black Hawks group Rasul Khalilov was shot in Moscow (initially it was reported that two people were shot - Khalilov and his cousin - Rashad Mammadov, who was in intensive care, but later this information was not confirmed) . Rasul Khalilov was shot at 12.10 near the house N40 on Altufevskoe highway.

On September 3, 2009, the process of sealing the churches of the ROAC, confiscated from believers by a court decision, began in Suzdal. Two representatives of the Federal Bailiff Service (FSSP) from Vladimir arrived in Suzdal and sealed several churches of the ROAC (including Lazarevsky, Antipyevsky, Kresto-Nikolsky). The security forces refused to speak with representatives of the communities and the Suzdal diocese of the ROAC, saying that they would only communicate with a lawyer.

On September 3, 2009, in the St. Petersburg City Court, at the trial in the case of the gang Borovikov-Voevodin , the defendants, who were involved in the episode about the attack in 2003 on two natives of Armenia in the village of Nikolskoye, Tosnensky district, filed a petition to stop their criminal prosecution "in connection with expiration of the statute of limitations" . The prosecution did not object to the satisfaction of the petition.

On September 1 in Kazan, the public women's organization "Muslima" and a number of believers expressed concern about the holding in the city on September 4-6 of the modern culture festival "Kremlin LIVE" with the participation of rock, jazz and pop stars.

continues In Yekaterinburg, the trial in the case against the National Bolshevik Alexei Nikiforov under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organization of the activities of an extremist organization). The details of the indictment have become known.