On November 18, 2009, it became known that in Yekaterinburg the investigation into the case of members of the Nazi skinhead group Volkssturm, detained in the Sverdlovsk region in February-March 2008, was completed. 9 people are involved in the case, suspected of committing 37 crimes based on national hatred, including several murders. The investigation was completed at the beginning of November 2009, the materials were transferred to the prosecutor's office.

On November 17, at a meeting of the Board of the Synodal Information Department, a decision was made to prepare a list of recommended Orthodox literature. The list will be replenished with a certain frequency, and the publications included in it will be marked with the heading "Recommended for printing".

In mid-November 2009, it became known that in Voronezh a criminal case was initiated under Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation against the head of one of the units of the "People's Militia of Minin and Pozharsky" in the Voronezh Region, Alexander Mosolov, who distributed the brochure "The people take up arms against the destroyers." According to experts from the Kursk Forensic Laboratory, the brochure contains signs of incitement to national hatred and declares "hostility

The Svyatogorsky Assumption Monastery in the Pskov region claims to be the building of the House of Children's Creativity (DDT) in the Pushkin Mountains. As it became known to the "Pskov news feed" , this issue has been considered in the district administration for several months. Previously, the claims of the monastery for this building and the site where it is located were twice rejected by the district assembly of deputies.

On October 27, 2009, it became known that in Buynaksk (Dagestan), Mikhail Zhukov, a conscript soldier from Yaroslavl, was regularly beaten at night by natives of the Caucasus. The conscript's mother appealed to the Committee of Soldiers' Mothers. The chairman of the committee of soldiers' mothers said that " "the beatings took place on the basis of ethnic relations .

On November 16, the first meeting of the editorial board took place in Moscow to write a textbook and teaching materials for the school curriculum “Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture.” Two draft textbooks were considered: Lyudmila Shevchenko and a group of members of the editorial board led by Protodeacon Andrey Kuraev.

In mid-November, it became known that residents of the village of Novaya Biofabrika applied to the administration of the Sovetsky district of Orsk (Orenburg region) with a complaint about the local mosque. The imam of this mosque called the faithful to prayer with the help of a loudspeaker from 5:30 to 23:00, disturbing the peace. The administrative commission ordered the imam to pay a fine of 500 rubles. The court reversed this decision.