On February 14, an extended extended meeting of the Council of Muftis of Russia opened in Kazan. During this meeting, an appeal to the Muslims of Russia was developed. In it, the Council emphasizes that Russia's most important problems will be successfully resolved only if D. Medvedev takes over as president of the Russian Federation and V. Putin as head of government.

On February 14, 2008, the Akhtubinsk prosecutor's office of the Astrakhan region opened a criminal case on inciting ethnic hatred by one of the leading designers of the Sukhoi Design Bureau. In the course of an audit by the prosecutor's office, it was established that from 2004 to 2006 one of the designers of the bureau conducted nationalist agitation among employees of a predominantly anti-Semitic nature.

On January 31, 2008, in Moscow, near house 18 on Ramenki Street, two unknown persons attacked a citizen of Uzbekistan, a Tajik by nationality, Saifulo Mirpattulaev (Mirpatullaev). According to the victim, the young people asked him "why he came here" and, without waiting for an answer, began to beat him. Witnesses to the incident called an ambulance. The victim was taken to the institute. Sklifosovsky.

On February 14, an appeal from doctors and candidates of science to Russian President Vladimir Putin was published. Scientists have put forward a request for the official introduction in Russian schools of courses on the study of various religious cultures or non-religious ethics.

On February 14, 2008, the case of a gang of Nazi skinheads who attacked people of "non-Slavic appearance" in the Mytishchi district of the Moscow region was transferred to the Moscow Regional Court. The case was initiated against five young people aged 16-19 (four of them are minors) under paragraphs. "a" and "c" part 2 of Art. 282 (inciting national hatred committed with the use of violence by an organized group), par. "a", "g" and "l" part 2 of Art.

On the night of February 14, the temple of Alexander Nevsky in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky was subjected to a hooligan attack. The attackers broke the windows of the temple with cobblestones, the Sever DV news agency reports . Police officers believe that the incident is the work of teenagers who have nothing to do with themselves. According to the rector of the temple of the Holy Right-Believing Prince Alexander Nevsky Father Vasily, this cannot be a childish prank.

on the official website of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation On February 14 , a report on the activities of the Commissioner for Human Rights in 2007 was published .

On February 13, at a meeting of the Committee of the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan on culture, science, education and national issues, the protest of the Prosecutor of the Republic of Tatarstan Kafil Amirov on certain provisions of the republican law "On freedom of conscience and religious associations" that do not comply with Russian legislation was considered.

In February 2008, a criminal case was initiated in Moscow on the fact of an attack by two Nazi skinheads on a citizen of Uzbekistan. The case was opened under paragraph "e" part 2 of Art. 111 and p. "a" part 3 of Art. 111 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm, committed on the basis of ethnic hatred, by a group of persons by prior agreement).

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov has decided to return to the Moscow Sretensky Monastery part of the territories that were taken away from the monastery in Soviet times, Interfax reported on February 14 , citing Rossiyskaya Gazeta. The monastery will be returned territories that are both municipal and federal property. In particular, the site overlooking Rozhdestvensky Boulevard. Currently, the French special school N1216 is located on the territory of the monastery .

On February 7, 2008, a criminal case was initiated in Barnaul on the fact of desecration of the monument of Russian-Armenian friendship "Open Book". The case was initiated by ch. 1 st. 214 CC RF (vandalism). The progress of the investigation has not been reported. Sources A criminal case was opened on the fact of desecration of a monument in Barnaul // FederalPress. 2008. February 14.