On February 23, 2008 in Kazan, Nazi skinheads armed with bottles, gas pistols and sharpeners attacked anti-fascists who had gathered at a club for a concert. The exact number of participants in the fight is unknown. According to various estimates, at different times, there were about 20 people atif, about 30 neo-Nazis. Participants in the events note that even before the start of the event, there were several skirmishes between Nazi skinheads and anti-fascists.

On February 26, at a meeting of the government of St. Petersburg, a decision was made to amend the law "On the procedure for transferring state property of St. Petersburg to the ownership of religious organizations." According to and.about. Aleksey Chichkanov, Chairman of the City Property Management Committee, it is about expanding the list of property that can be transferred free of charge to the ownership of religious organizations.

February 27, 2008 in Dzerzhinsk (Nizhny Novgorod region) Nazi skinheads attacked a 21-year-old student, a native of Uzbekistan, was beaten, hit several times with a knife and shot him twice with a hunting rifle. The student died on the spot from his injuries. This became known in December 2010 from the news of the beginning of the trial of the attackers. Sources Four "skinheads" are on trial for a series of murders in the Nizhny Novgorod region // Interfax. 2010. December 13.

On February 27, 2008, two members of a youth group suspected of attacks and murder were detained in the Moscow region. He chose a preventive measure in the form of detention. In total, the group includes 5 teenagers aged 16 to 20 years old, who call themselves fans of one of the capital's football clubs. One of the detainees was a girl who filmed the attacks on her mobile phone. So far, the investigation is working on only one episode in this group - an attack on a citizen of Moldova.

The organizers of the carnival festivities decided to abandon the burning of the effigy of winter. “There will definitely be a scarecrow, but we will not burn it, it is inhumane in the 21st century,” said Grigory Antyufeev, chairman of the Moscow Tourism Committee, during a press conference.

On February 20, the Yoshkar-Ola city court denied in full the satisfaction of the republican application to recognize Vitaly Tanakov's brochure "Onaen oil" ("The Priest Speaks") as extremist literature. This is the second decision of the city court in this case. On August 8, 2007, the same court declared Tanakov's pamphlet extremist. On September 25, 2007, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation overturned this decision, remanding the case for a new trial. Recall that in 2006 V.

On February 27, 2007, the Altai Regional Court, on the basis of a unanimous jury verdict of February 15, delivered a verdict in the case of two nationalist murders of an Armenian and an Azerbaijani in October 2006. Two young people, 22-year-old Maxim Potapov and 19-year-old Konstantin Tyrin, were found guilty under paragraph "c" of Part 4 of Art. 162 (robbery committed with causing grievous health to the victim), p.p. "a", "g", "h", "l" part 2 of Art.

Vicar of the Kaluga diocese, Archbishop Georgy Lyudinovsky, at a meeting of the diocesan council, called on parish priests to convince the faithful that participation in elections does not contradict the commandments and is everyone's civic duty. The reason for this appeal was the rumors that spread throughout the parishes that participation in the upcoming presidential elections is a sin.

On February 13, 2008, in Khimki (Moscow region), a group of teenagers attacked a citizen of Moldova and inflicted numerous blows on him with sharp objects - knives or sharpening points. The victim was taken to the city hospital with serious injuries. He died from the stab wounds he received. On February 27, 2008, the suspects in this and other attacks were detained . Sources A group of fans who attacked migrants was detained in the Moscow region // Gazeta.ru. 2008. February 27.

On February 20, 2008, the Yoshkar-Ola city court refused in full to satisfy the application of the republican prosecutor's office to recognize Vitaly Tanakov's brochure "The Priest Speaks" as extremist literature. Earlier, the city court granted the prosecutor's statement, which was appealed by Tanakov to the Mari El Supreme Court, which on September 25, 2007 overturned the first decision of the lower court and returned the case for a new trial.