On December 17, 2009, it became known that the prosecutor's office of the Belgorod region proposes to amend the regional law "On missionary activity." Representatives of the prosecutor's office believe that in the text of the current law, "an ambiguous interpretation of the term "representative of a religious organization" does not make it possible to prosecute people who distribute prohibited religious literature." And about.

On December 17, it became known that the newly created Alexander Nevsky Brotherhood in St. Petersburg received state registration. Bishop Nazariy of Vyborg, vicar of the St. Petersburg diocese, was elected chairman of this interregional organization. At the moment, the brotherhood has about 50 members, among which there are such organizations as the Union of Orthodox Intelligentsia of St. Petersburg and the DeloRus business community.

On December 16, 2009, the Kalininsky District Court of Chelyabinsk delivered a guilty verdict in the case against four young people Ivan Kuklev, Artem Rachkov, Alexander Shklyar and Alexander Labeikin (born 1990 and 1991), who committed a number of crimes motivated by national hatred. I.

On December 16, 2009, the Novosibirsk Regional Court delivered a verdict in the case of the murder by a group of young people of a citizen of Tajikistan, Abdulatip Tursunov, motivated by ethnic hatred in October 2008. The day before, the jury found Alexei Noskov (Bars), Alexei Kazakov (Borman), Anatoly Gladyshev (Gaza) and two underage Nazi skinheads guilty of this murder. The instigator of the fight, who hit Tursunov with a knife, was found guilty of paragraphs "g", "l" of part 2 of Art.

On December 17, 2009, it became known that the Department for the Protection, Restoration and Exploitation of Historical and Cultural Values ​​(Heritage) of the Krasnodar Territory withdrew its claims about the use of the church building to the Lutheran community of Novorossiysk.

was once again updated on the website of the Russian Ministry of Justice On December 17, 2009, the Federal List of Extremist Materials . Item 455 was included in it. Update of the federal list of extremist materials Internet resource www.vdesyatku.biz and information materials posted on it ( decision of the Samara District Court of Samara dated September 28, 2009). Sources Federal list of extremist materials // Official site of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation. 2009.

On November 30, 2009, the prosecutor's office of the Astrakhan region issued a warning about the inadmissibility of extremist activity to the owner of the Astrakhan News website domain, Maxim Tersky, for comments of a "nationalist nature" left by readers to one of the articles. One of the comments to the article "Chechen police detained a group of militants in Astrakhan" called for the expulsion of Chechens from the city.

On December 17, 2009, the Leninsky District Court of Kursk delivered a guilty verdict in the case of 23-year-old Sofya Budnikova, the Kursk coordinator of the Movement Against Illegal Immigration (DPNI), charged under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred or enmity committed in public). S. Budnikova was sentenced to 1 year of probation with a probationary period of 1 year.