On May 17, 2011, it became known that the Tyumen Muslims agreed with the proposed site for the construction Cathedral Mosque in the Workers' Settlement, which was notified to the Department of Property Relations Tyumen region. Recall that the issue of building a mosque in Tyumen was already discussed in September 2010 after the meeting of muftis with the President of Russia.

In May 2011, in Moscow, law enforcement agencies reported that a suspect had emerged in the case of the murder of anti-fascist Ivan Khutorskoy - a former member of the neo-Nazi group United Brigades - 88 (OB-88), 28-year-old Alexey Korshunov. Due to the fact that A. Korshunov is also a suspect in the murder case of Moscow City Court judge Edurd Chuvashov, the cases were combined into one proceeding. The suspect is wanted. It is reported that he left Russian territory and is in Ukraine.

In May 2011, a verdict was passed in Khabarovsk in the case of incitement of national hatred (part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). In the dock was 32-year-old Sergei Rystakov, who was accused of posting on December 15 last year in one of social networks text with calls for violence against the non-Slavic population Khabarovsk. The court found the young man guilty and sentenced to 5 months of the colony-settlement.

May 18, 2011 Investigative Republic of Mari El reported that the indictment in the case Committee of the Russian Federation for the initiated under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity for signs of attitude towards religion) against Maxim Kalinin was sent for approval with subsequent transfer to the court. Recall that the case against Kalinin was initiated in August 2010 as a result of an audit conducted Republican FSB.

May 18, 2011 in Novosibirsk on one of the bridges neo-Nazis hung a banner in memory of Dmitry Borovikov, one of the leaders groups of Nazi skinheads in St. Petersburg, who died on May 18, 2006 when detention. The banner contains the dates of the life of a neo-Nazi, depicts him a portrait with a swastika on his chest and a slogan glorifying "feats" written deceased. It should be noted that on the 5th anniversary of the death of D.

On May 17, 2011, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Astrakhan Region announced that two residents of Astrakhan were charged under Part 1 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organization of the activities of an extremist organization). We are talking about two brothers detained in Astrakhan a few days ago.

On May 18, 2011 it became known that the initiative construction in Yekaterinburg 300 temples within walking distance, with which appealed to the city administration representatives of Yekaterinburg diocese, provoked public outcry. In particular, the deputy of the City Duma Leonid Volkov stated that “the city needs a maximum of 5-10 new churches in remote neighborhoods.” "I will very grateful,” he said, “if with the help of the diocese we can identify 300 free sites.

May 18, 2011 Interfax published data from social media analyst Maxim Rossoshansky about religious identity of users of the VKontakte network. According to these data, 10 million people call themselves Orthodox. users (10.5%), Muslims - 1.5 million (1.6%), Buddhists - 363 thousand. (0.38%), atheists - 463 thousand people (0.49%). According to the analyst, out of 138 million registered only 95 million users of the site are people, the rest are machines.

On May 16, 2011, a commentary by religious scholar Roman Lunkin was published on survey data showing that 26% of Russians consider the activity of the Russian Church to be excessive. Arguing about the possible reasons for such discontent, Roman Lunkin comes to the conclusion that the bulk of the dissatisfied are members of the Church. “ If we further analyze the opinions of citizens, ” he writes, “ you will get a rather interesting and unexpected picture.