On January 13, 2008, in the evening in Moscow, in the underground passage between Leninsky Prospekt and Miklukho-Maklay Street, a citizen of Cameroon, a student of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, was beaten up. The victim was hospitalized in an unconscious state with a concussion and a closed craniocerebral injury. The details of the incident are being investigated. Investigative activities are being carried out.

On January 15, one of the private shops in Makhachkala was searched and goods were confiscated. Murad Gasanov, the owner of the store, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that armed policemen and persons in civilian uniform entered the store, who introduced themselves as employees of the prosecutor's office of the Leninsky district of Makhachkala.

The heads of services of the Kursk mayor's office announced that they would transfer their daily earnings for the reconstruction of the cathedral of the Root Hermitage monastery. The ruling bishop of the Kursk diocese, Archbishop Herman (Moralin), said at a meeting of the board of trustees at the end of 2007 that if funds allow, then by the fall of 2008 it will be possible to finish laying the walls for the domes.

On January 12 (according to other sources, January 13), 2008, a 22-year-old citizen of Kyrgyzstan, Kanybek Zhusukov, who worked part-time at construction sites, was killed in the Pushkinsky district of St. Petersburg. The body of the deceased with multiple stab wounds was found in a forest belt, 300 meters from the Podbelsky highway. According to the press service of the Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor General's Office for St.

On January 15, the club of Orthodox journalists announced its intention to seek the creation of a Public Council on Morality under the Russian federal television channels. The Chairman of the Club, Advisor to the Chairman of the Federation Council Alexander Shchipkov said at a press conference in Moscow that any censorship would be ruled out in the Council. "The moral council should not censor, but evaluate the actions of the leaders of the TV channels," Shchipkov said.

On January 15, 2008, a collegium of the regional Nizhny Novgorod court overturned the decision of the district court to impose additional obligations on human rights activist Stanislav Dmitrievsky, which could have led to the replacement of a suspended sentence with a real one. It should be reminded that the Nizhegorodsky District Court has already ruled twice that if Dmitrievsky commits two administrative offenses within a year, the human rights activist may end up behind bars.

On the night of January 4-5, 2008, in the village of Sovetsky in the Republic of Mari El, unknown vandals drew a swastika and wrote "offensive obscene inscriptions" on the pedestal and bust of the monument to V.I. Lenin. The message about the incident was received by the department of internal affairs on the morning of January 5, 2008 from the residents of the village. The case was initiated under Part 2 of Art. 214 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (vandalism).

On January 14, Muslims of the St. Petersburg religious organization "Al-Fatah" sent a letter to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika. They are protesting against the inclusion in the "Federal List of Extremist Materials" (published in "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" dated December 29, 2007 under No. 4557) of Muhammad Ali al-Hashimi's book "The Personality of a Muslim ...". The letter says that the Muslim community in St.

On January 15, 2008, in St. Petersburg, at a government meeting in Smolny, the governor of the city, Valentina Matvienko, announced the need to "infiltrate, join extremist groups and find the origins of this movement . " The head of the city added that "the situation with youth extremism in the city is absolutely acute." "You must understand what these groups are and why our young people are joining these packs. What are we not offering them? Why are they going there?" Also, V.

*We publish a list of warnings issued during 2007 by Rosokhrankultura/Rossvyazokhrankultura (the agency was renamed in March 2007) for "using the media to carry out extremist activities" In total, in 2007, the department issued 43 warnings (7 - by the central office and 36 territorial offices. The list is given with continuous numbering. Our comments are given in brackets without additional designation.

On December 28, 2007, the case of an attack on members of the Jewish community in Ivanovo was brought to court. The attackers are charged under paragraph "a" part 2 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("incitement of national hatred or enmity with the use of violence or with the threat of its use"). Recall that on June 11, a group of young people attacked Rabbi Zvi Hershovich and his companions who arrived in the local Jewish community.