In Sergiev Posad, Moscow Region, the construction of a shopping center has begun in the immediate vicinity of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. The public fears that the building under construction will be comparable in height to the Assumption Cathedral and spoil the panorama of the Lavra. Opponents of the construction claim that the work is being carried out without a permit.

As it became known in September 2009, on December 22, 2008, the prosecutor's office of Gorno-Altaisk applied to the Gorno-Altaisk city court with a statement declaring a number of Jehovah's Witnesses' materials extremist. The prosecutor asks to recognize 29 materials as extremist (initially, 27 materials appear in the statement, but during the preliminary hearings on the suit, which began on December 24, 2008, the prosecutor's office's request to add two more materials was granted).

On September 22, 2009, an independent extrajudicial examination in the case of the attack on two teenagers in February 2009 admitted that the phrases "Bey khachi" and others are an expression of the ethnic motivation of the crime. According to the conclusions of the examination conducted by experts from the Nizhny Novgorod State University named after N.I.

Under the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, a Scientific Advisory Council has been set up to study information materials of religious content in order to identify signs of extremism in them. The first meeting took place on 23 September. The Council consisted of 23 people: Anisimova Tatyana Viktorovna - Associate Professor, Department of Political Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, St.

On September 22, 2009, new details of the case of three Togliatti Nazi skinheads who were detained on suspicion of a series of attacks on people from Central Asia and the Caucasus in August 2009 became known. At first, young people were suspected of two attacks, the victims of which died. According to new data, attacks on two more people who managed to survive were added to past episodes of attacks.

was once again updated on the website of the Russian Ministry of Justice On September 23, 2009 , the Federal List of Extremist Materials . It included paragraphs. 425-430. Update of the federal list of extremist materials . An article that begins and ends with the words: "If you carefully read the comments on this news, you can see that opinions are divided approximately equally .....

From September 12 to 23, the Kursk Root Icon of the Mother of God brought from the USA was in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. During this time, more than 100 thousand believers bowed to the shrine. "At least 15,000 people go to the church a day to see the icon," told RIA Novosti . Vladimir Legoyda, head of the Synodal Information Department of the Russian Orthodox Church, Sources More than 100,000 believers have already bowed to the Kursk Root Icon in Moscow // RIA News". 2009.