Alexander Vtorov, pastor of the United Methodist Church of Smolensk, accused the secretary of the Smolensk diocese, vicar of the Smolensk diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church MP, Bishop Ignaty (Punin) of Vyazemsky, of inciting religious hatred. This was reported by the Slavic Legal Center on February 26. The reason for this accusation was a series of police checks , which the pastor had already asked to pay attention to.

On February 23, 2008, in the west of Moscow, a group of teenagers beat up an 11-grader from one of the Moscow schools, a native of Azerbaijan. A group of 13 people ran into a teenager on Ivan Franko Street. First, young people began to bully the student, and then one of them, a 22-year-old man with a previous conviction, took away the money and mobile phone from the young man. After that, the teenagers began to beat the boy.

On February 26, it became known that a case was initiated in Komsomolsk-on-Amur under paragraph 2 of Art. 282.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Participation in an extremist community) against two National Bolsheviks, Dmitry and Alexander Voronov. In addition, they are also accused of insulting a representative of the authorities (art. 319). The reason for initiating the case was the publication in the newspaper "Trudodni", which published a candid photograph of Vladimir Putin.

The First Hierarch of the ROAC Metropolitan of Suzdal and Vladimir Valentin (Rusantsov) sent to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, as well as the Chairman of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation A.I.

In early 2008, in Ivanovo, on one of the houses on Lezhnevskaya Street, two women pasted up leaflets containing criticism of the state's economic policy, accusations of sexual harassment by people of other nationalities, and calls to refrain from marrying foreigners. This became known from the news about the linguistic examination carried out in the case of leaflets. Sources Two residents of Ivanovo will be brought to trial for displaying national and racial intolerance // Ivanovonews.Ru.

On February 22, the founding meeting of the Interreligious Council of the Sverdlovsk Region (MC CO) was held at the residence of the Archbishop of Yekaterinburg and Verkhoturye Vikenty in Yekaterinburg. It was attended by representatives of the "traditional" religions of the Sverdlovsk region. The council includes two representatives from each "traditional" denomination.

Participants in the interregional scientific and practical conference “Orthodox Rus' against American-style globalization” addressed an open letter to Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus'.

On February 24, 2008, in the village of Michurinsky, Sverdlovsk Region, near house 55 along Rucheynaya Street, the body of an unemployed native of Tajikistan, Khalikov, was found with 18 stab wounds. Whether the victim was robbed is not reported. On the fact of the murder, a criminal case was initiated under Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder).

On February 22, 2008, the Syktyvkar prosecutor's office formally charged blogger and musician Savva Terentyev with inciting social hatred against police officers for a comment he left in an Internet diary. The investigation into the Terentyev case was repeatedly extended due to the fact that the prosecutor's office ordered expert examinations of the comment left by the user terentyev.