On January 19, at the Yekaterinovsky water intake of Nakhodka, the rite of the great consecration of water was performed on the occasion of the Orthodox feast of Epiphany. As a result, all residents of Nakhodka, regardless of confessional affiliation, received blessed water.

On January 19, 2008, leaflets with slogans were found on the doors and walls of the Nizhny Novgorod cathedral mosque: "There will be no mosques here! There will be a Russian landscape! The Russians are coming!" Deputy Chairman of the DUMNO Abdulbari-Khazrat Muslimov expressed hope that "the city administration will pay attention to this egregious fact and take appropriate measures." for details . See "Religion in a Secular Society" Sources Whose peace is disturbed by mosques?

A charitable foundation of the Roman Catholic Church has agreed to finance the construction of an Orthodox Sunday school in a village in Kalmykia. In addition, the representation of the Vatican in Russia intends to transfer a batch of books to the Gymnasium. teacher Sergius of Radonezh, which is planned to be opened in Elista on September 1, 2008. As noted by Interfax-religion , with the financial support of Catholics in 2007, the dome of the Kazan Cathedral of Elista was reconstructed.

Orthodox residents of Nizhny Novgorod began collecting signatures under an open letter to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II, Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad Kirill (Gundyaev) and Archbishop of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas Georgy (Danilov). The authors of the message accuse the church leadership of imposing the “heresy of ecumenism” on the flock.

At the end of December 2007, the Krasnodar regional prosecutor's office opened a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (actions aimed at inciting hatred or enmity) against A.V. Trekhlebov. Reference. Trekhlebov Alexey Vasilievich (born 1957) - Vedagor, Galtsing - lama.

On December 30, 2007, in the Primorsky district of St. Petersburg, a group of Nazi skinheads attacked a Tajik. The victim received stab wounds. No criminal case has been initiated. Inc. inf.

On January 22, 2008, two residents of the city of Borovichi (Novgorod region), armed with a knife and a hammer, attacked a resident of Veliky Novgorod, who seemed to them a resident of Central Asia. "From hostile relations motivated by national hatred, in the presence of citizen F." The attackers put a knife to the man's throat and threatened to kill him, then "pushed him to the ground and punched and kicked his body" .

On January 21, 2008, on the central street of Pervouralsk, Sverdlovsk Region, a group of Nazi skinheads, football and hockey fans, attacked local residents after a bandy match between Uralsky Trubnik and Dynamo. Fans, armed with baseball bats and bottles, fought in several places and attacked those who came to hand. Information from the Pervouralsk police department and eyewitnesses about the fact of the attack, the number of attackers and victims differs.

On January 21, 2008, Rossvyazokhrankultura issued a warning about the inadmissibility of extremist activity to the editor of the Izvestia Kaliningrad newspaper, Oleg Altovstsky. The reason was the announcement published in the newspaper about the "march of dissent", which is to be held on January 27. In addition, the editor was warned that the newspaper would be closed in court if this happened again.

In 1998, in Moscow, three large families of members of the community of the Council of Churches of Evangelical Christian Baptists (SC ECB) bought a house at the address: st. Makeevskaya, 1/6. For several years they have not been able to register the house and the land plot adjacent to it (only 6 acres have been registered) and obtain permission to reconstruct the house.

In January 2008, a criminal case was opened on the publication of extremist materials in the Duel newspaper. On January 15, Yury Mukhin, editor-in-chief of the newspaper, was charged in this case. It should be reminded that in November 2007 the Duel newspaper was closed by the decision of the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow after receiving repeated warnings from Rossvyazokhrankultura. The reason for initiating a criminal case under Part 2 of Art.

On January 21, during a conference on national security issues held by the Academy of Military Sciences, First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Alexander Chekalin said that over the past 4 years in Russia, the number of extremist crimes has increased 3 times. "In 2004, there were 130 such crimes, in 2005 - 152, in 2006 - 263, in 2007 - 356," the Interior Ministry spokesman said.