The Ministry of Education is again discussing the teaching of “Fundamentals of Religious Cultures and Secular Ethics.” The Ministry is not yet ready to extend the teaching of this course for ten school years. On April 3, 2015, the Public Council under the Ministry of Education rejected Patriarch Kirill’s proposal to expand the teaching of the course “Fundamentals of Religious Cultures and Secular Ethics” (ORKSE) at the school.

We asked Pyotr Georgievich Chistyakov, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor at the Educational and Scientific Center for the Study of Religions of the Russian State University for the Humanities, to comment on the statement of the Public Council under the Ministry of Education regarding the teaching of the course “Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture and Secular Ethics.” Petr Georgievich, do you agree with the statement of the Public Council under the Ministry of Education, which is

In April 2015 in Orenburg, the court sentenced to 300 hours mandatory works of 38-year-old Andrey Lushnikov, who published in xenophobic texts and pictures in the social network. In April 2015, a verdict was passed in Orenburg in the case on incitement of national hatred (part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code).

In April 2015, the Kirovsky District Court of St. Petersburg satisfied the claim of the prosecutor's office and recognized the audio clip with excerpts as extremist from the book "Red Kabbalah". Recall that the book of George Klimov's "Red Kabbalah" was recognized as extremist by the decision of Temryuksky District Court of the Krasnodar Territory in April 2013 and included in Federal List of Extremist Materials under item 1957.

The governor of the Kaliningrad region expelled the representative of the Russian Orthodox Church from the meeting of the Council for Culture after his speech criticizing the festival "Kubana". April 6, 2015 became it is known that the governor of Kaliningrad expelled from the meeting of the Council for Culture the representative ROC, which opposed the holding of the festival "Kubana".

On March 25, 2015, a round table was held in Ryazan on the upcoming transfer of the Ryazan Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve “Ryazan Kremlin” to a new complex. The round table participants included museum employees, historians, environmentalists, human rights activists, and public activists. Most of the speakers noted the negative consequences that the museum's relocation would entail.

On April 6, 2015, the State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building recommended for adoption in the second reading a bill on media liability for extremism. On April 6, 2015, the State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building recommended for adoption in the second reading bill No.

A rally "For freedom of creativity" was held in Novosibirsk. 5 April 2015 in Novosibirsk, on the square in front of the Opera House, was held rally for creative freedom." It was attended more than 2,000 Novosibirsk residents outraged by the cancellation of Tannhäuser and dismissal of the director of the Opera and Ballet Theater Boris Mezdrich. Event participants held posters "Before all you need to believe in the mind”, “I believe in the freedom of creativity and in constitution.

In April 2015 in the city of Kazan of the Republic of Tatarstan in the case against 18-year-old Artur Trushin, who is accused of posting neo-Nazi photos on social media. In April 2015 in the city of Kazan of the Republic of Tatarstan there were the investigation of the criminal case on inciting ethnic hatred was completed (part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code).

On April 4, 2015, in Moscow, a case was initiated under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code. During the searches, the figurines were seized. On April 6, it became known about the seizure of a model aircraft with a Finnish swastika. April 4, 2015 it became known that the Meshchansky interdistrict the investigative department of the Main Investigative Directorate of the ICR, based on the materials of the inspection of the Moscow prosecutor's office, initiated a criminal case under Part 1 of Art.

In mid-March 2015, the city community of Jehovah's Witnesses and two of its members were fined in Cherkessk for distributing extremist materials. On April 6, 2015 it became known that on March 17, 2015 the Circassian city the court recognized the community of Jehovah's Witnesses of Cherkessk as a legal entity and two of its members, Andrei Volovikov and Dmitry Metelin, guilty under Art.

In April 2015, a court in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk ruled that a racist video found on the VKontakte social network was extremist. In April 2015, in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the court considered the claim prosecutor's office to recognize a certain video as extremist. The video is said to be racist and was found on the page of one of the users of the social network "VKontakte". Details, unfortunately, are not disclosed.