On the border of Buryatia and the Irkutsk region, police officers detained an opposition-minded shaman.

Archpriest Alexander Borisov commented on an open letter from the clergy in defense of convicted participants in protests related to the election of deputies of the Moscow City Duma. September 18, 2019 Moscow Archpriest Alexander Borisov, in an interview with reporters, commented on the open letter of the clergy Russian Orthodox Church in defense of convicted protesters, connected with the election of deputies of the Moscow City Duma.

In the Sverdlovsk region, the owner of the store was fined under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses for the sale of two books, prohibited, in our opinion, unlawfully. On September 18, 2019, a message was circulated in the press that the Krasnoufimsky District Court of the Sverdlovsk Region fined the individual entrepreneur Rasim Safina under Art. 20.29 (mass distribution of extremist materials) for 2 thousand rubles with confiscation of the items of the offense.

The public prosecutor requested real terms for six Jehovah's Witnesses accused under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code. On September 18, 2019, the public prosecutor asked the Leninsky District Court of Saratov to sentence to real terms of imprisonment six Jehovah's Witnesses accused of organizing the activities of an organization recognized as extremist (Part 1, Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

In September 2019, Warsaw hosts the annual OSCE conference on human dimension. September 19, 2019 expert information and analytical center "Sova" Olga Sibireva spoke with report at the working session “Fundamental freedoms I: freedom of thought, conscience, religion and beliefs." We publish the full text of the report.