The parish of the Moscow church was allocated a plot for the construction of a church in the protected zone of the Setun River. On December 4, 2013 it became known that the mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin signed an order to allocate the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary to the parish in Matveevsky land plot on the territory of a specially protected natural territory "Valley of the river Setun".

In early December 2013, a resident of the village of Ulagan was fined for a video posted by VKontakte. The video has a title different from the material recognized as extremist. On December 3, 2013, the Gorno-Altai City Court found Dmitry Elenakov, a resident of the village of Ulagan, guilty under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (distribution of extremist materials) and fined him 1,500 rubles. The resolution has not entered into force.

In December 2013, in the city of Marks, Saratov Region, a criminal case was initiated against an 18-year-old local resident, who professes Islam, who published anti-Semitic statements on one of the social networks. In December 2013, a criminal case was initiated in the city of Marx, Saratovskaya case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national and religious hatred).

Church arson cases in Tatarstan merged into one and retrained. On December 4, 2013, it became known that on the facts of arson Orthodox churches in Tatarstan initiated 7 criminal cases. They are merged into one proceeding under Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (terrorist act). This was announced by the Deputy Head of the Investigative Committee of the TFR for the Republic of Tatarstan Airat Akhmetshin.

We publish an overview of the main and most significant events in the field of misuse of anti-extremist legislation in Russia in November 2013. Rulemaking In the beginning of November The President signed a law on the introduction of a set of new anti-terrorist measures. Recall that the law provides for liability for the organization terrorist community and participation in it and for continuing activities banned terrorist organization, by analogy with anti-extremist st.st.

December 2, 2013 during the "round table" in the Public the head of the synodal department for interaction between the church and society, archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin called for a tough policy against "sects". “We need, as I am convinced, without regard to our eternal teachers in some Western and Eastern countries to build a policy of hard attitudes towards destructive religious or pseudo-religious phenomena , ” he said.

We present an article by Alexander Verkhovsky, published in "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" December 4, 2013. The constitutional principle of separation of religion from the state for 20 years hesitated, but persevered. The 1993 constitution established some rules regarding functioning of religion in society and its relationship with the state, and these norms already at the time of the adoption of the Constitution were not at all generally accepted.

November 21, 2013 Neklinovsky District Court of the Rostov region ceased proceedings on the suit of the prosecutor's office against the local religious organization of the Church of Evangelical Christians "Exodus" about the ban rehabilitation activities.

Khan's Mosque was handed over to Kasimov Muslims with a minaret of the 15th century, occupied by the museum of local lore. At the same time, the transfer of the current mosque community can not achieve a few years.