The Russian Academy of Education has developed and sent to examination of the program of the compulsory course "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture" from 1 to Grade 11. The Ministry of Education is not related to this initiative. On July 26, 2016 it became known that the Russian Academy education sent out for examination the draft program "Fundamentals of the Orthodox culture”, designed for teaching from grades 1 to 11.

At the end of July, the Russian Academy of Education sent for examination the “Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture” program , designed for teaching in schools from grades 1 to 11. Representatives of Muslim, Jewish and Buddhist organizations spoke out against the inclusion of the military-industrial complex in the compulsory school curriculum, while Orthodox clergy approved the RAO initiative. Kommersant cited the opinion of representatives of Muslim, Jewish and Buddhist organizations.

Associate Professor of the Faculty of Humanities (School of Philosophy) Graduate School of Economics Boris Knorre, in an interview with Svetlana Solodovnik, spoke about religious situation in Tatarstan. S.S. Borya, you have just returned from Kazan, and there were just celebrations on the occasion of the feast of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, to which Patriarch Kirill came. You participated in the procession, associated with this event? B.K.

At the end of July 2016 in the city of Cherepovets, Vologda region, a case was submitted to the court against a 24-year-old local resident, posting xenophobic images and videos on social media. At the end of July 2016 in the city of Cherepovets, Vologda region, an investigation into the case of inciting ethnic hatred was completed (part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code) and public calls for extremism (part 2 of article 280 of the Criminal Code).

In July 2016 in Novosibirsk, a local 15-year-old schoolgirl received a warning from the prosecutor's office. The reason was the fact that she published in the community "Typical Novosibirsk" in the social network "VKontakte" of the comment containing the image Nazi symbols. The schoolgirl published it under the name Christina Walter. The comment has already been deleted.

In July 2016, SOVA Center received a letter saying about the commission of a homophobic attack in a hostel on Nizhnyaya Krasnoselskaya Street in Moscow. It is reported that on July 23 this year for a dormitory resident who is homosexual, suddenly attacked by an unfamiliar inhabitant of the next room, which, with the words “So that I don’t see you in the kitchen anymore. I will dismember. Pidaras" hit the young man several times in the chest, face and stomach.

July 29, 2016 Reporters Without Borders issued a statement defending one of the four activists of the organization acting under the abbreviation IGPR "ZOV" - a journalist RBC Alexander Sokolov. Because this statement contains a link to our Center "Sova", we are forced to come up with some clarifications regarding cases of IGPR "ZOV". At the end of June 2016, the preliminary investigation into the case of four activists of the organization, acting under the abbreviation IGPR, was completed.

IN July 2016, we know of two victims of xenophobically motivated attacks in Moscow. In total, 1 person has died from racist violence since the beginning of the year. and 32 people were beaten or injured, two people received death threats. These incidents were recorded in 8 regions of Russia. IN In July only one act of xenophobic vandalism was recorded in Tatarstan. Since the beginning of the year in Russia, we have recorded 19 acts of such vandalism in 16 regions of the country.