In April 2011, an act of neo-Nazi vandalism took place in Penza. On the fence of the local Jewish cemetery, unknown people wrote anti-Semitic slogans and drew a swastika. The initiation of a criminal case has not yet been reported. To avoid similar incidents in the future, the local Jewish The community plans to install a guard post at the cemetery in May. Sources In Penza, a guard will appear at the entrance to the Jewish cemetery // Penza-Press. 2011. April 19.

April 18, 2011 in the south of Moscow was hijacked belonging To the Russian Bible Society a truck carrying 3,888 copies of the Bible. Employees of the company appealed to the Chertanovo Yuzhnoye police department with a statement about the theft. April 20, 2011 it became known that the stolen truck was found in the village Zhdanovo near Podolsk. The thieves have been arrested and an investigation is underway.

April 18, 2011 in the village of Varna, Chelyabinsk region was Muslim cemetery desecrated. Vandals knocked down 43 gravestones, in as a result of which cracks formed on six of them. The initiation of a criminal case has not yet been reported. Sources Muslim cemetery destroyed in Chelyabinsk region // Interfax-religion. 2011. April 19.

On April 13, 2011, the Moscow City Court satisfied statement of the Federal Service for Communications, Information Technologies and Mass Media communications on the termination of the activities of the media of the newspaper "To the Barrier!". Recall that in June 2010 Ostankinsky the district court of Moscow ruled to close the newspaper "To Barrier", in in accordance with anti-extremist legislation. The editorial board of the newspaper cassation to the Moscow City Court.

April 17, 2011 chapter administration of the Revyakinsky municipality of the Irkutsk region Cheryomushki village, Irkutsk region, Leonid Frolov drunk burst into a meeting Jehovah's Witnesses in a private home. Threatening with a gun, he demanded to stop assembly and fired into the air. During half an hour L. Frolov shouted out threats, swore obscenely, hit the owner of the house and one of the believers, broke the coffee table.

April 7, 2011 in a prayer house in the village of Bolotnikovo Luninsky district of the Penza region during the service entered the chief Luninsky police department, Colonel Alexander Voenkov and a district police officer. Having interrupted the festive divine service (on this day the Orthodox celebrate the Annunciation), they demanded Abbot Kharlampiy (Koryazkin) to present documents and was told that he had "problems with the Penza diocese.

On April 19, 2011, it became known that in case murder the lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, a third suspect appeared - Alexander Parinov. Unfortunately, the details are not yet made public. Recall, earlier it was reported that A. Parinov, nicknamed "Romanian", is one of the suspects in the case of the murder in 2006 of anti-fascist Alexander Ryukhin and is on the federal wanted list.

On April 19, 2011, it became known about the conflict around the wing building, used by the community of the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity at the Pyatnitskoye cemetery in Moscow. In 1930, the building of the wing was transferred to the plant for ammunition production.

April 11, 2011 at Barnaul (Altai Territory) a criminal case was initiated under Part 2 of Art. 119 Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (threat of murder motivated by religious hatred). The case was initiated against a local resident who repeatedly threatened with murder and arson of the temple to the priest of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Barnaul. According to investigation, the suspect acted from the motive of religious hatred.

April 19, 2011 in Moscow, the leader of the Slavyanskaya force" Dmitry Demushkin said that he was summoned for questioning to the prosecutor's office in connection with the criminal case initiated against him case under Article 282-2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organization of the activities of an extremist organization).

In April 2011 in Ufa (Republic of Bashkortostan) verdict in the case against the chief editor of the Maidan newspaper, 44-year-old Airat Dilmukhametov and editor-in-chief of the website of the news agency "Revinform", 46-year-old Robert Zagreeva.

On April 18, 2011, the authorities of the Tyumen region agreed to allocation of funds for the repair and construction of 20 mosques. "Currently, we have prepared an application for fourteen mosques, - the head of the regional Spiritual Administration of Muslims Galimzhan told IslamNews Bikmullin. “Documents are being prepared for another five or six mosques.” Sources Tyumen authorities will help to complete and repair twenty mosques // islamnews. 2011. April 19.

On April 19, 2011, it became known that the prosecutor of Usinsk (Republic of Komi) Alexander Likhachev sent to the head of the local religious organization Evangelical Christians (Pentecostals) "God's glory" letter with the requirement to provide constituent and some other documents. foundation for this is the verification of the implementation of the legislation carried out by the prosecutor's office on countering extremist activity.

In the first half of April 2011, a Report on activities of the Council of Muftis of Russia in 2010. It highlights a number of issues, faced by Muslims. First, there are problems with liturgical premises. IN Moscow is a scandal with an attempt to build a mosque in Tekstilshchiki , when the authorities first "picked up a site, and then, under pressure from national-radical organizations, refused the subsequent stages of land allocation".

In April 2011, the Tushinskaya Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office of Moscow appealed to the court demanding recognition of the xenophobic leaflet “Catechism Caucasians in Russia” with extremist material. Recall that the leaflets were found in November last year in mailboxes. boxes of residents of the house 89 building 3 on Svobody street. On this fact, it was a criminal case was initiated under Part 1 of Art.