In Nizhny Novgorod, a court issued a guilty verdict in the case of attempted arson of an Orthodox church. On February 22, 2014, the Nizhny Novgorod District Court sentenced Left Front activist Dmitry Kapelyush to two years of suspended imprisonment with a probationary period of one and a half years for attempting to set fire to the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow” on Nesterov Street in July 2013. The court found him guilty under Part 2 of Art.

We asked religious scholar Konstantin Mikhailov to comment on the letter of believers to Patriarch Kirill, published in mid-February on the Change .o rg website. Let us remind you that believers are in favor of changing church policy and removing Archpriest from office. Vsevolod Chaplin. The conversation was conducted by Ksenia Sergazina. Konstantin, what, in your opinion, is the most important thing in the last letter of the “faithful children” to Patriarch Kirill?

On February 24, 2014, the Federal List of Extremist materials. Items were added to it. 2220-2224. Added to the list: a whole series far-right videos, an Islamist video, two brochures of Jehovah's Witnesses, and also some materials published by the user Alena Volchitsa Belaya in social network "VKontakte" (in this case it is not clear whether we are talking about part materials from the user's page or about the page as such).

Imam of the mosque in the village of Kosh-agach Serzhan Svatov, accused of collaborating with the movement Tablighi Jamaat, in order to prevent the liquidation of the community, resigned. February 21, 2014 Imam of the Gorno-Altai village Kosh-Agach Serzhan Swatov announced his resignation. He said that he voluntarily “resigned from the founders and members of the organization”, because it fears that the community may have problems, because S.