On January 31, 2008, the Judicial Collegium for Civil Cases of the Saratov Regional Court overturned a warning against extremist activity issued to the newspaper Rossvyazohrankultura for publishing a collage depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin as Stirlitz. This warning was one of the reasons why Rossvyazokhrankultura insisted on the termination of the newspaper's activities.

On February 1, 2008, in Moscow, near the Varshavskaya metro station, an attack was committed on two citizens of Kyrgyzstan. Nazi skinheads attacked Altynbek Ashirov (Alishov) and Amirbek Saidov. Saidov managed to escape from the attackers, and Ashirov died in the hospital from his injuries. He was found guilty of the murder of Alishov under clauses “a”, “i”, “l”, part 2 of Art.

On January 31, 2008, the Moscow prosecutor's office reported on the annual results of work to combat extremism. In 2007, 21 criminal cases were opened in Moscow under Art. 280, 282, 282-1 and 282-2 (in 2006, 11 cases were filed under these articles). Incl. 7 cases against 12 people have already been sent to the courts. Prosecutors sent 39 submissions to the courts on the recognition of various information materials as extremist.

The presentation of Ron Hubbard's book "The Way to Happiness", which took place in the Makhachkala children's library named after N. Yusupov, aroused indignation among some Muslims. The imam of the central juma mosque of Makhachkala, Muhammad-Rasul-haji Saaduev, considered this to be Scientology propaganda and "a violation of human rights." "We will not humbly look at the sect's propaganda in a traditionally Muslim area where 99% of the population professes Islam. This is simply unacceptable.

January 24, 2007 in the newspaper "Polyarnaya Pravda" (Murmansk) was printed a test called "Are you a cultured person?". One of the test questions was: "In your family ... were there Jews, were there no Jews?" In the case of a positive answer, the author "reassured" the test subject: " "Do not be upset. You are a complete nonentity. But you are adored .

On January 31, 2008, the Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Ingushetia reported on the annual results of the fight against extremism. In the course of checking the implementation of anti-extremist legislation, 20 warnings and 29 submissions were sent to state authorities. The prosecutor's office sent two submissions to the courts on recognizing the publications as extremist. Over the past year, 3 criminal cases have been initiated in the republic under Part 1 of Art.

In the first month of 2008, no less than 39 people, became victims of racial and neo-nazi violence, resulting in 13 fatalities. The attacks took place in Moscow (6 murdered, 17 injured people), in St. Petersburg (4 murdered, 1 injured), and also in Bryansk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Tula and Kaluga region. Individuals from Central Asia were attacked more often than other vulnerable groups in January (10 murdered and 6 injured).

School director s. Pechnikovo, Kargopol district, Arkhangelsk region Tatyana Davydova provided one of the classrooms for organizing an Orthodox prayer room. The Orthodox community in this village has already been registered, but the church of Sts. unmercenaries and wonderworkers Cosmas and Damian have not yet been restored. "In May 2007, a cross was erected and consecrated at the construction site.

On January 27, 2008, on the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust, the foundation stone of the memorial to the Jewish victims of the fascist occupation, set in the square named after them, was desecrated in Volgograd. March 8 at the place of execution of more than 600 Jews in the autumn of 1942 The vandals tried to erase the word "Jews" from the inscription on the stone, after which they wrote on it abuse about the executed.

The administration of Kaliningrad decided to allocate a land plot for the construction of a mosque. The Muslim community of Kaliningrad has been seeking allocation of land since 1993. However, the previous options proposed by the authorities caused protests from local residents. Rossiyskaya Gazeta talks about what preceded the current decision to grant the site: “The authorities found a piece of land at the intersection of Khmelnitsky and Dzerzhinsky streets.

At the end of January 2008, the investigation department for the Pervorechensky district of Vladivostok completed the investigation of a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity). A criminal case was initiated in 2007 on the fact that in February 2007 two young men pasted up leaflets with anti-Semitic content on a support pole on a busy section of a highway.