On January 29, 2008, the body of a 40-year-old resident of the Fergana region of Uzbekistan was found in Moscow on Krasnodonskaya Street. The cause of death of the man is not reported, but hematomas were found on his face and neck. It is also not reported whether the victim was robbed. An investigation is underway. Sources Uzbeks and Kazakhs attacked in Moscow // CountryRU. 2008. January 30.

On January 30, 2008, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the North-Western Federal District summed up the results of the annual work. In 2007, 8 "extremist" crimes were registered in the district, and among them the only crime registered in all federal districts under Art. 282.1 (organization of an extremist community).

On January 29, the Moscow Basmanny Court dismissed the Moscow Helsinki Group's claim against "sectarian" Alexander Dvorkin for the protection of business reputation. The court did not consider A. Dvorkin's phrase, uttered on the air of the Rossiya TV channel on September 30, 2006, as discrediting: "I'm not talking about the Helsinki group, which constantly supports all sects and is on the salary of Scientology." On May 14, 2007, the Khoroshevsky Court of Moscow recognized A.

On January 29, 2008, in Moscow, at house 67 in Shokalsky passage, three people attacked two citizens of Kyrgyzstan, Eliza Ergesheva, born in 1984, and Marat Akmatov, born in 1986. The attackers inflicted stab wounds on the Kyrgyz, from which the man died on the spot before the ambulance arrived. The girl was hospitalized with nine stab wounds. Nothing was reported about the robbery of the victims. On the fact of the attack, a criminal case was initiated under Part 3 of Art.

On January 30, 2008, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Volga Federal District reported on the annual results of the fight against extremism. During 2007, seven extremist crimes were registered in the Volga region, five of them were prosecuted under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity). One of these cases was initiated against the activities of the Chuvash religious group Hizb ut-Tahrir.

In January 2008, the prosecutor's office of the Central District of Volgograd, in the course of checking the implementation of anti-extremist legislation, found signs of extremism in Joachim Fest's book "Hitler. Biography", which is freely sold in Volgograd. As a result of an examination carried out at the initiative of the prosecutor's office, the idea of ​​justifying the motives for Nazi Germany's invasion of the USSR was revealed in the "Biography".

The Ministry of Culture of Chuvashia hosted a meeting of the Council for Interaction with Religious Associations, dedicated to the issues of registration and activities of religious organizations.

On January 30, 2008, it became known that policemen in Murmansk were going around the apartments of members of the United Civil Front and forcing them to sign warnings that they were not allowed to take to the streets in accordance with the law on extremism.

Archbishop of Ryazan and Kasimov Pavel (Ponomarev) called for changes to the Russian budget code so that the repair and restoration of federal monuments transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church would be financed from the federal budget. “The state should help religious organizations in the maintenance and restoration of monuments that retain the status of national heritage,” he said at a round table in the State Duma as part of the XVI Christmas Readings .

On January 29, 2008, in Ulyanovsk, near the Jewish Community Center and Synagogue, a group of 10 people began shouting anti-Semitic slogans and painting the walls of the synagogue with swastikas. Part of the group entered the premises of the community center. Police officers driving past the building detained four protesters. According to some reports, weapons had to be used during the arrest. The detainees testify at the prosecutor's office.

On January 29, more than ten people attacked a Jewish community center and synagogue in Ulyanovsk. First they shouted anti-Semitic slogans, then they wrote curse words and swastikas on the walls of the building. Some of the attackers burst into the room, shouting curses and throwing leaflets of the Russian National Union (RONS). According to the deputy chairman of the board of the Ulyanovsk Jewish community, Valery Rogatkin, this organization initiated the anti-Semitic action.

Archbishop of Penza and Kuznetsk Filaret (Karagodin) announced that an agreement had been reached with the Minister of Education of Russia Andrei Fursenko and the administration of the President of Russia on the introduction of "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture" in the schools of the Penza region as a compulsory subject.

The Ministry of Culture of Chuvashia hosted a meeting of the Council for Interaction with Religious Associations, dedicated to the issues of registration and activities of religious organizations. The statistics of the Office of the Federal Registration Service for Chuvashia were cited, according to which 268 religious organizations are registered in the republic, of which 206 are Orthodox and 37 Muslim.

Edited by Alexander Verkhovsky Wе publish our seasonal report on radical nationalism and counteraction to it in autumn 2007. As usual, the report is based on the results of the SOVA Center daily monitoring.

The Supreme Court of Dagestan is considering the case of the murder of the imam of one of the Makhachkala mosques, 52-year-old Dagir Kachaev. The accused is Sultan Arslangereev. In addition to the murder of the imam, he is charged with participation in an illegal armed group and in a criminal community, as well as illegal possession and carrying of weapons. Sources In Dagestan, the case of the murder of the imam of the mosque of Makhachkala is being heard // Islam.ru. 2008. January 29.