On January 31, Interfax was told by the prefect of the Central Administrative District of Moscow, Sergei Baidakov, that the part of the territory of Tagansky Park that historically belonged to it will be transferred to the Intercession Convent. The prefect during the press conference stressed that this does not mean that the rights of the residents of the district will be in any way diminished.

During the round table, which was held on January 31 at the Synodal Department of the Moscow Patriarchate for interaction with the Armed Forces and law enforcement agencies as part of the XVI Christmas Readings , the following data were announced. As Interfax reports, today more than 50 Sunday schools have been created and operate in the country's correctional institutions, which are attended by 10.5 thousand convicts.

At the end of January 2008, in the Moscow region, on a commuter train in the Paveletsky direction, Nazi skinheads beat a Korean, a citizen of Russia, while shouting nationalist slogans. The victim was hospitalized with injuries of varying severity. The attack became known on January 31, 2008, when a message appeared about the arrest of 5 teenagers and one adult suspected of beating.

On February 1, 2008, the Maykop City Court handed down a guilty verdict in the case of posting a Nazi video on the Internet and sentenced the accused Viktor Milkov to one year in prison in a penal colony. Let us recall that in November 2007 the Maykop court sentenced V. Milkov under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred) and sentenced him to a year of correctional labor with deduction of 10 percent of his earnings in favor of the state.

On January 31, 2008, the Leninsky District Investigation Department of the Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Ulyanovsk Region opened a criminal case over an anti-Semitic incident near the building of the Jewish community center in Ulyanovsk. The case was initiated under Article 282 of the Criminal Code (incitement of national hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity).

On January 31, 2008, the Sverdlovsk Regional Court began a trial of the Zig 88 group of Nazi skinheads. It should be reminded that the case involves 7 young people aged 16 to 18 who committed the murder of a man on January 13, 2007, motivated by ethnic hatred. The defendants are charged with Art. 282.1 (creation of an extremist community and participation in an extremist community) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and Art.

The Leninsky District Investigation Department of the Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Ulyanovsk Region opened a criminal case on the fact of a hooligan act near the building of the Jewish community center in Ulyanovsk. Recall that on January 29, several people covered the walls of the center with curses and painted swastikas.

On January 31, an article by A. Zaitsev entitled “Beware, Artists” was published on the “New Politics” website. The article is devoted to the topic of blasphemy in art (using the example of the Sakharov Center projects , the Sots Art exhibition , etc.). The author shows that a very pressing problem of modern society is the blurring of ideas about blasphemy, insult to religious feelings and “immorality” in art. The article clearly draws the line between immorality and blasphemy.

On January 30, 2008 the Prosecutor's Office of Karelia summed up the results of its work on "supervision over the fulfillment of the requirements of the legislation on combating extremist activity and terrorism" at a coordinating meeting of the heads of law enforcement agencies of the republic. In 2007, 8 extremist crimes were registered on the territory of the republic. in one criminal case A guilty verdict was issued .

On January 26, 2008 in Moscow, in a subway car at the crossing between the Schukinskaya and Tushinskaya metro stations, a group of young people, including girls, attacked a man of "non-Slavic appearance", probably a native of Chechnya. An eyewitness to what is happening claims that the non-Slavic appearance of the passengers of the car became the reason for the conflict, although, in appearance, the instigators of the fight did not belong to Nazi skinheads.