On February 7, 2008, the Tonshaevsky District Court of the Nizhny Novgorod Region considered a petition for parole by Boris Stomakhin, publisher of the Radical Politics bulletin. The case was heard in the village of Burepolom, Tonshaevsky District, Nizhny Novgorod Region, on the territory of the penal colony where the convict is serving his sentence.

On January 29, at a meeting of the Council of the Eurasian Branch of the International Association for Religious Freedom (MARS), Pavel Belkov, head of the administrative and legal department of the Russian Union of Evangelical Christian Baptists (RSECB), spoke about the situation in the field of observance of religious rights and freedoms of the believing churches of the union in 2007.

From January 28 to February 2, the XVI International Educational Christmas Readings were held in Moscow. They were attended by clergy, officials, teachers, journalists, and representatives of dioceses. The main topic of the forum, as in previous years , was the teaching of Orthodox disciplines within the framework of secondary schools. However, this year the demands of the reading participants on the state regarding the presence of Orthodoxy in the school curriculum have become more stringent.

On February 5, the State Duma adopted in the second reading a bill allowing state accreditation of educational programs of religious educational institutions. Appropriate amendments have been made to the laws "On Education" and "On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations." Spiritual educational institutions are now entitled to receive state accreditation in the relevant areas of training. Graduates of these institutions will receive state diplomas without a coat of arms.

In January 2008, in the North-Western District of Moscow (Baryshikha St., Gen. Beloborodova St.), gas stations were pasted up with nationalistic statements. In particular, an announcement at a gas station of the Tyumen Oil Company in the 7th Mitino microdistrict next to house 2 on the street. Baryshikha contained the following phrases: "Dear citizens, the Central Internal Affairs Directorate for the city of Moscow draws your attention!

The government of the Perm Territory and the Perm diocese signed a cooperation agreement. The treaty provides in the areas of health, social development and social protection.

On February 5, the Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg declared the construction of an ice rink on Palace Square illegal. The court ordered the committee for the protection of monuments of St. Petersburg and Rossvyazokhrankultura to check the implementation of legislation on the protection of monuments of cultural history and eliminate shortcomings: the skating rink on the square limits the access of citizens to the Alexander Column.