On February 21, employees of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate and the Kirov District Prosecutor's Office conducted a search in the St. Petersburg branch of the Church of Scientology. The investigation was carried out as part of an investigation into a complaint from a former parishioner of the church who feared that his personal data would be used in some way. As a result of the search, two boxes containing recordings of parishioners' confessions were seized.

On February 22, 2008, in Moscow, opening an informal meeting of the CIS heads of state, Vladimir Putin announced the need to strengthen the fight against xenophobia in the Commonwealth countries.

On February 21, in Moscow, in the synagogue on Poklonnaya Gora, a meeting of the local Jewish community (part of the KEROOR) with the prefect of the Western District Yuri Alpatov, State Duma deputy Viktor Zvagelsky and Moscow City Duma deputy Alexander Milyavsky took place. During the meeting, the prefect urged the audience to vote for the Putin-Medvedev tandem in the upcoming March 2 presidential elections.

The head of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Russia, Joseph Werth, called on Russian Catholics to take part in the presidential elections on March 2. He recalled that one of the documents of the Second Vatican Council says that every citizen has the right and at the same time the duty to use his free vote for the good of society.

On February 22, 2008, the head of the Moscow police department, Vladimir Pronin, said that since the beginning of the year, 30 people had been detained in the capital on suspicion of nationalist crimes. He also noted that 13 of the detainees were minors. Sources Russia will fight hard against xenophobia, intolerance and encroachments on the lives of CIS citizens // Echo of Moscow. 2008. February 22.

The Islamic Education Council issued a statement regarding the possible inclusion of the “Spiritual and Moral Culture” (DNC) course in the school curriculum. The Council does not share the concept proposed by the Russian Orthodox Church, according to which, as part of this course, schoolchildren should become familiar with the basics of one religious culture of their choice.

On February 20, 2008, in the north of Moscow, on Klinskaya Street, two Nazi skinheads severely beat an Uzbek janitor (according to other sources, a Kyrgyz). 19-year-old Ivan Gvozdev and 18-year-old Natalya Kulikova (according to other sources, Igor Gvozdev and Nikolai Kulikov) attacked 43-year-old Begali Sultanov in the yard that evening and began to beat him with sticks. Some of the residents of the house heard the noise and called the police.

The investigative department of the Shuisky police department of the Ivanovo region opened a criminal case under part 2 of article 167 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (deliberate destruction of another's property by arson) on the fact of arson of a Muslim prayer house. on February 18 , is suspected of committing arson A 37-year-old resident of Shuya, detained .

On February 21, in Moscow, the Independent Press Center hosted a presentation of the collection "Civil Society Against Xenophobia, Intolerance, Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief in Russia" and the report of the Institute for Freedom of Conscience (ISS) "Freedom of Conscience in the Russian Federation. Report for 2007" released with the assistance of the Moscow Helsinki Group.

At a meeting of the commission on local self-government of the Novosibirsk Council of Deputies, a decision was made to create a special commission to study and analyze appeals related to the activities of religious associations operating in the city. The proposal to create such a commission in the fall of 2007 was put forward by Valery Naumenko, a deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. The goal of the new commission is to fight "totalitarian sects".

On February 22, 2008, the Federal National-Cultural Autonomy of Azerbaijanis in Russia (FNKA) appealed to the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation with a demand to cancel the registration of presidential candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky for using agitation inciting ethnic hatred in the election campaign. The author of the appeal, President of FNCA AzerRos Soyun Sadykov, considers Vladimir Zhirinovsky's book "The Last Throw to the South", published in 2007.

On February 22, 2008, a guilty verdict was passed in Izhevsk in the case of desecration of the walls of the city Community Center of Jewish Culture on Ordzhonikidze Street with anti-Semitic inscriptions. It should be reminded that a criminal case on the fact of desecration of the Jewish center in November and December 2007 was initiated against Alexander Krinitsin, a 19-year-old resident of Izhevsk.

The Voronezh branch of the Russian Post and the Voronezh diocese are holding a joint charity event "Forgiveness Sunday". The action is timed to coincide with the beginning of Great Lent, on the eve of which Orthodox Christians ask each other for forgiveness for the offenses they have caused.

On February 22, 2008, two Nazi skinheads were detained in Moscow, who two days earlier beat an Uzbek janitor (according to other information, Kyrgyz) to a pulp in the north of Moscow. Thanks to the fact that the victim Begali Sultanov remembered the attackers well (one of whom lives on Klinskaya Street), the Nazi skinheads were detained.