Representatives of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church sent an appeal to the Slavic Legal Center, the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation, the International Human Rights Center, the Council under the President of the Russian Federation to promote the development of civil society institutions and human rights, as well as a number of other organizations.

On February 20, 2008, a meeting was held in Moscow between the Deputy Mayor of Moscow Valery Vinogradov, the head of the city police department Vladimir Pronin and the head of the Committee for Interregional Relations and National Policy Alexei Alexandrov with the leaders of ethnic associations. Representatives of national diasporas living in Moscow accused the Moscow authorities of inaction and pandering to nationalists.

On February 21, 2008, the director of the Moscow cultural center of the Ossetian community, Tamara Bedoeva, reported that on February 20, musicians from an Ossetian ensemble were beaten in Moscow, returning from a concert. Unfortunately, we were unable to find out the details of the attack. No robbery reported. "I myself three times witnessed how groups of guys in black attack passengers with Asian and Caucasian appearance in the subway ," T. Bedoeva added.

Evangelical Protestant churches of Novocherkassk sent an open letter to the mayor of the capital of the Don Cossack Army, Anatoly Volkov. They are concerned about the introduction of the Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture in the city's secondary schools. The letter emphasizes that the introduction of defense education as a compulsory subject in secondary schools is contrary to the legislation of the Russian Federation.

On February 21, members of the Atheistic Scientific Discussion Club published an open letter to Dmitry Medvedev on their forum. The letter expresses concern about the "aggressive implementation of religious beliefs in Russia and discrimination based on religion." Club members believe that in Russia the Orthodox Church is placed in a privileged position, and the importance of the opinion of representatives of other confessions and the unbelieving part of the population is underestimated.

On February 14, 2008, the Federal Registration Service for the Primorsky Territory officially registered the non-profit public organization Union of Slavs (SS). On February 18, 2008, representatives of the "Union of Slavs" received a Certificate of state registration of the organization. Recall that, as an unregistered organization, the Far Eastern SS already has a warning about the inadmissibility of extremist activity, which has not been challenged in court.

On February 18, Elena Romanova, a consultant with the Department of State Policy and Legal Regulation in Education of the Ministry of Education and Science, said that a program for teaching the basics of various religions at school would be developed by an interfaith working group. The “Spiritual and Moral Culture” component will become part of the new state educational standard.