On the evening of August 23, 2007, the Control and Disciplinary Committee of the Russian Football Union fined Spartak Moscow 500 thousand rubles for a racist banner posted in the Spartak sector of the stands at an away match with Samara's Krylya Sovetov. The club's management will not challenge this decision and will pay a fine, although it insists that the people who hung the banner in the team's fan organizations are not members.

On August 23, 2007, the verdict on Alexander Aratov, the former editor-in-chief of the Russkaya Pravda publishing house, came into force. Recall that the neo-pagan publisher was convicted under paragraph "b" part 2 of Art. 282 (incitement of ethnic hatred using his official position) to 3 years of suspended imprisonment, without any additional measures restricting his propaganda activities. The Moscow City Court considered the cassation appeal of A.

At the end of August 2007, the Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Belgorod Region Court considered the cassation appeal of two skinheads convicted on July 2, 2007 for a series of attacks on foreign students. Convicted activists of the National Patriotic Bloc group, 20-year-old Konstantin Vedernikov ("Kid") and minor A. ("Nightmare"), were sentenced to 5.5 and 2.5 years in prison, respectively. The remaining members of the group actively cooperated with the investigation as witnesses.

The leadership of the Main Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service (GU FSIN) for the Kemerovo region refused to sign an agreement with the Kazyyat Department of Muslims of the Kemerovo region (KUM KO), citing its "destructiveness". Imams can no longer visit imprisoned Muslims. The operation department made a recommendation to stop cooperation, citing "an instruction from Moscow", after the believers applied to the GUFSIN with a request to conduct lectures on a religious topic.

On August 3, 2007, at about 8 pm in Novosibirsk, skinheads attacked a young man and a girl walking down the street. The reason for the attack was the non-Slavic appearance of the young man (he is half Korean). The attack took place in the very center of the city, a few meters from the police post. About eight people, shouting "Chinese, go back to your China" , began to beat the young man, and then the girl who tried to protect him.

On August 23, Metropolitan of Voronezh and Borisoglebsk Sergiy (Fomin) urged the participants of the regional teachers' council to speak out in favor of maintaining the existing structure of general education school programs, divided into federal, regional and school components. amendment prepared by the Ministry of Education The Metropolitan's speech was prompted by a draft to the federal law on education, abolishing the regional and school components.

On August 23, 2007, in the Moscow region, two of the four detainees in the case of the murder of 15-year-old Narek Kocharyan on November 11, 2006 in Ivanteevka near Moscow, in addition to the charge of murder, were charged under paragraph "a" part 2 of Art. 282 (inciting national hatred with the use of violence). Recall that initially 10 people were detained in this case. Four suspects are currently in custody.