On November 12, a criminal case was initiated in Mari El on the fact of desecration of the Pepkinsky barrow in Kozmodemyansk. “The traffic police on the territory of the Pepkinsky Kurgan detained two residents of Kozmodemyansk, aged 20 and 30, who tried to knock down a wooden idol located in the center of the mound with a hacksaw and an ax,” Interfax-religion quotes a message from the republican prosecutor’s office. A 1.5-liter bottle of kerosene was confiscated from the detainees.

On November 12, 2009, it became known that in Ryazan, four members of the ultra-right group "White inquisitors crew" were charged. Recall that members of the group were detained on suspicion of a series of neo-Nazi attacks in the city in December 2008 - January 2009. The full qualification of the articles is not reported. Charges were brought under five articles of the Criminal Code, including Art. 105 (murder) and Art. 282.1 (participation in an extremist community).

In early November, a 9-year-old patient suffering from hydrocephalus was admitted to the Polenov Neurosurgery Research Institute in St. Petersburg. The child's mother objected to the necessary, according to doctors, blood transfusion. The woman motivated her disagreement with religious beliefs: she is a "Jehovah's Witness" and believes that part of the soul of another person will be transferred to a child with blood. The doctors filed a lawsuit with the Kuibyshevsky District Court of St.

On November 11, the Vyborg Customs of the Leningrad Region lifted the ban on the import of previously detained literature destined for the Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. When deciding on the ban, the customs was guided by the verdict of the Rostov Regional Court, which recognized the literature of Jehovah's Witnesses as extremist.

The mufti of the organization of the Perm Territory, Khamit Galyautdinov, accuses local officials of patronizing the Orthodox and discriminating against Muslims. The reason was the decision to build an Orthodox church in a park in the Krokhalev microdistrict, on the site of a chapel in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "Satisfy my sorrows." The construction of the temple is expected to coincide with the second anniversary of the fall of the Boeing 737.

On October 23, 2009, in Omsk, at a picket against police brutality, 23-year-old Anatoly Yurkovets was beaten by unknown people. After he applied to the regional police department regarding the beating, a criminal case was initiated against him under Part 1 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (hooliganism motivated by political, ideological, racial, national or religious hatred or enmity, or motivated by hatred or enmity against any or social group).

On November 11, 2009, the literature of Jehovah's Witnesses, detained in early October by the customs of the city of Vyborg (Leningrad Region), was allowed into the territory of the Russian Federation. The customs authorities explained the one-month delay by the decision of the Rostov Regional Court to recognize a number of materials from a religious organization as extremist.

On November 13, 2009, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation announced the transfer to the court of a criminal case under part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting national hatred publicly or using the media) on the fact of the publication of the Resolution of the expanded session of the Milli Majlis of the Tatar people on the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Tatarstan and the Appeal Milli Majlis of the Tatar people on the recognition of the

Muslim veterans in Rostov are outraged that local officials do not allow them to spend two religious holidays in public places. The authorities motivate the refusal with references to the secular nature of the state. In addition, they fear that if Muslims are given the opportunity to hold their events in public places, representatives of other faiths will demand the same.

On the initiative of the governor of the Voronezh region Alexei Gordeev and with the participation of the Voronezh diocese, the anti-drug and anti-alcohol public center "Our Common Cause" (NOD) was created. The first round table organized by the center was attended by Metropolitan Sergiy (Fomin) of Voronezh and Borisoglebsk, head of the regional police department, speakers of the regional Duma and the municipal assembly of Voronezh.

The Rashida Mosque in the village of Medyan, Krasnooktyabrsky District, Nizhny Novgorod Region, was put up for auction. Legal entities and individuals are allowed to participate.

On November 12, 2009, a criminal case was sent to the Krymsky District Court of Krasnodar against the founder and editor of the newspaper "Vesti Slavyan Yuzha Rossii" Boris Solomakhi, accused under Part 2 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity). According to investigators, in 2007 B. Solomakha published in his publication a poem on behalf of Skvoreshnev called "Be Russian!".