On January 25, 2008, the jury of the Moscow Regional Court returned a verdict of not guilty in the case of the murder of 19-year-old Armenian youth Arthur Sardaryan in the Moscow region in May 2006, motivated by national hatred. 9 out of 12 jurors considered that the guilt of the defendant Roman Polusmyak (born 1990) had not been proven, 3 jurors voted for a guilty verdict. The victims' defense stated that they would appeal the acquittal, as they categorically disagree with the jury's decision.

On January 24, the ProСatholic.ru website was opened. Its creators were employees of the Russian Catholic newspaper Svet Evangeliya, which was closed in December 2007. “Pro is a benign “for”, and not a polemical and confrontational “against”. Pro is an honest education of those who want to learn more about Catholicism in the world and Russia, contrary to the myths and stereotypes existing in the mass consciousness,” it says announcement of the opening of the site.

Representatives of the Muslim community of Naberezhnye Chelny sent an open letter to the President of Tatarstan M. Shaimiev, the head of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Tatarstan, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tatarstan and the republican prosecutor's office. The authors of the letter are outraged that on January 16, in the city maternity hospital No. 1, Orthodox priests sprinkled all newborns, including Muslim children, with holy water.

In January 2008, four young people were detained in Yekaterinburg, suspected of the brutal murder of M. Radzhaboev, a citizen of Uzbekistan. All the suspects are minors: a student of school N 104, a student of an assembly college, a student of USTU, and their 17-year-old friend. Adolescents were charged under paragraph "g" part 2 of Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder committed by a group of persons by prior agreement or by an organized group).

On January 25, 2008, the first court session was held in Ivanovo in the case of an attack by a group of young people on the rabbi of the local synagogue, Zvi Hershovich, the head of the Ivanovo Jewish community, Canadian citizen Erwin Kirshtein, and several members of the community. Recall that the criminal case under paragraph "a" part 2 of Art.

On January 25, court hearings began in Ivanovo on the case of the attack on Rabbi Zvi Hershovich, who was beaten by a group of young people in June 2007. Recall that the criminal case was initiated under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity"). In December 2000, the prosecutor's office completed the investigation and referred the case to court.

A citizen of Uzbekistan, Dilshod Kurbanov, who is being held in a pre-trial detention center in the city of Novomoskovsk, Tula Region, is threatened with expulsion from Russia. A notice of the adoption by the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation of a decision on his extradition at the request of the Uzbek side was handed to him on January 22.

On January 24, 2008, five suspects in the murders of immigrants from Central Asia were detained in Moscow. They turned out to be four young people from 15 to 18 years old, students at the Moscow Road, Krasnogorsk Technical and Optoelectronic Colleges. The fifth suspect in the case was a 20-year-old unemployed man.

On January 23, 2008, in Nizhny Novgorod, 3 young people aged 18-19 broke into the synagogue, tore the tablecloth off the table and began to throw religious books out of the windows. The prayer house guard tried to stop them, but the young people resisted and beat him.

On January 19, 2008, a group of several people attacked the well-known Buryat boxer and trainer Bato Batuev near the Vodny Stadion metro station in Moscow. The attackers severely beat Batuev, but did not rob him. In a fight, the man resisted. The victim received two deep stab wounds in the abdomen. B. Batuev was operated on and is now in the Timiryazev hospital in Moscow. Unfortunately, we do not know if a criminal case has been opened into the attack. Based on Internet blogs

On January 17, 2008, a criminal case was opened in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on the fact of "extremist" activity on the Internet. Five young people were detained as suspects in crimes under Part 1 of Art. 280 (public calls for extremist activity) and Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred or enmity). The reason for initiating a criminal case against the detainees was the creation on the Internet of a site that incites ethnic hatred.

On the morning of January 23 in Saratov, the hall for worship of the Church of Evangelical Christians "Word of Life" (part of the Russian United Union of Christians of Eastern Europe) burned down. 10 fire trucks extinguished the fire for two hours. A 200-square-meter small worship hall attached to the main building of the church burned down, where the Bible school classes were held and the youth office was located. The damage from the fire amounted to 1.5-2 million rubles.

On January 23 and 24, educational and methodological gatherings of clergymen and military personnel of the FSO of Russia were held in St. Petersburg. They were attended by priests and officers from Moscow, Orel, Kazan and many other cities. The results of cooperation between the Russian Orthodox Church and the FSO in 2007 were summed up at the training camp. Sources Military clergy gather in St. Petersburg // Pravoslavie.ru. 2008. January 24. (With reference to the site "Water of Life")

On December 8, 2007 (according to other sources, November 8, 2007) in Yekaterinburg, a group of teenagers shouting "Glory to Russia!" killed a citizen of Uzbekistan, M. Radzhaboev, who worked as a taxi driver in the city. His body was found on the edge of the street. Moscow. One of the attackers, 17-year-old Vladimir M., stabbed the victim 63 times with a knife. A young man, born in 1982, died from multiple stab wounds.

The clergy of the Oryol diocese are outraged by the theatrical performance organized by the local museum of Granovsky. The event was timed to coincide with Christmas time and, according to the press service of the diocese, was dedicated to "explaining the methods of divination." A significant part of the spectators of the performance were schoolchildren.