January 10 at the Moscow Church of St. The unmercenaries Kosma and Damian in Shubin hosted a Christmas party for children from Orthodox and Baptist families. The holiday was organized jointly by the Department for External Church Relations (DECR) of the Moscow Patriarchate, the Cosmodamian parish, and the Russian Union of Evangelical Christian Baptists (RSECHB).

On January 11, 2010, the investigator of the Investigative Department for the city of Tver of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Tver Region completed the investigation of a criminal case against five young people (from 17 to 19 years old), members of the Nordic Front group.

On December 31, 2009, Rinat Akhtyamov, imam-hatib of the mosque in the city of Kamenka (Penza region), announced that the conflict with the administration of Serdobsk colony No. 6 had been settled. The confiscated religious literature was returned to the Muslim prisoners. Sources Books about Islam returned to prisoners // IslamNews.ru. 2009. December 31.

On the night of January 9, 2010 in St. Petersburg on the street. Submariner Kuzmin into one of the apartments of the house, rented by five citizens of Uzbekistan, 10 unknown young people in masks, armed with cold weapons, broke into one of the apartments, beat and robbed foreigners. The attackers also stabbed the Uzbeks. There is an investigation. According to one of the versions of the operatives, “perhaps the guardians of the purity of the White race got down to business again ...

In early January 2010, it became known that both lawsuits filed by the prosecutor of the Samara Region on the liquidation of religious organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses in Tolyatti and Samara were dismissed.

On December 31, 2009, the prosecutor's office of the Republic of Buryatia issued a warning about the inadmissibility of violating anti-extremist legislation to A. Burmakin, editor-in-chief of MK in Buryatia. The reason was D. Rodionov's article "The Fruits of Misunderstanding", published the day before in the newspaper.

On January 11, 2009, it became known that the investigation department for Khabarovsk of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for the Khabarovsk Territory transferred a criminal case under Part 2 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred) against the National Bolshevik Yevgeny Voluzhev. Earlier it was reported that the case was initiated under Art. 282.2 (participation in the activities of an extremist organization).

On the night of January 1, 2010, in the city of Volzhsky (Volgograd region), arsons were committed in the premises of two prayer houses. The first attack took place at about 0:30 a.m. on Chemist Street. Unidentified persons threw two Molotov cocktails into the building of the Jehovah's Witnesses. One of the bottles caught fire. Firefighters were called, but were able to put out the fire before they arrived.

Governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko responded to the request of the deputies of the Legislative Assembly for a sacrifice on Eid al-Adha. The governor acknowledged that the slaughter of cattle in the Apraksin yard violated several regulations. In her opinion, "the slaughter of animals in the presence of minors contains signs of a crime under Article 245 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (cruel treatment of animals)".

On January 8, 2010, in St. Petersburg, on Lesnoy Prospekt, police officers detained a 17-year-old young man, "who, according to preliminary data, is a member of an extremist neo-Nazi group" . The detainee was seized rocket launchers loaded with shotgun shells and a knife. The young man was taken to the police station, they are checking. Unfortunately, the reasons for the detention are not entirely clear. Sources 6,415 people fined during holidays in St.

On January 11, 2010, in Kemerovo, blogger Dmitry Solovyov received a decree signed on December 31, 2009, acquitting him of the charge of inciting hatred against employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB. The charge was dropped for lack of corpus delicti. Recall that Solovoyev, an activist of the "Defence" movement, wrote in his blog about violations of the law by representatives of these law enforcement agencies.

On the night of January 7, about 85,000 people attended Christmas services in Moscow churches. 135 thousand people came to night and morning services in Moscow. In general, in Russia, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, more than 2.5 million people visited churches on Christmas. Sources According to official data, the attendance of Christmas services in Moscow still does not exceed 1% of the number of city residents. // Portal-Credo.ru. 2010. January 7th.

On December 31, 2009, the Vyborgsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced Sergey Orlov, a student of the St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred and enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity). Orlov was sentenced to compulsory work for a period of 60 hours. The initial conviction of the Vyborgsky District Court of St.

On the night of January 1, in the city of Volzhsky (Volgograd Region), unidentified persons threw two Molotov cocktails at the building of the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses. One of the bottles caught fire. The attendants called firefighters, but were able to put out the fire before they arrived. The attackers, noticing movement inside the building, fled the scene, leaving three more Molotov cocktails near the Kingdom Hall. The firefighters arrived and called the police.

The Ministry of Culture has scheduled the transfer of the Novodevichy Convent in Moscow to the Russian Orthodox Church in 2010. The branch of the State Historical Museum located on the territory of the monastery will be withdrawn from there. It is supposed to transfer to the monastery the iconostasis located in one of the temples. Another iconostasis will be brought to the monastery and left for storage.