Moscow, Russia - Moscow police have been searching the Church of Scientology on Taganskaya Street since Thursday morning, a law enforcement source has told Interfax.
The search could be part of a criminal investigation by the Moscow region's Investigative Committee into the distribution of scientology literature of the extremist nature, the source said.
No official confirmation of this report has been immediately available.
Scientology is an applied religious philosophy founded by American Ron Hubbard.
In late June, the Prosecutor General's Office declared several of Hubbard's books extremist.
Earlier, the Prosecutor's Office of the town of Schyolkovo near Moscow petitioned the city court to ban extremist materials by scientology's founder. The court upheld the plea.
Once the ruling comes into force, the banned literature is automatically included into the list of extremist materials barred from distribution in Russia.
In May, scientologists claimed that the Justice Ministry had excluded Hubbard's books from the "black list."