On February 27 (and according to some reports - already on February 23), 2008, the operation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs "Teenager" began in Moscow to prevent extremism among young people, during which, according to complaints from residents, police officers detained young people, taking fingerprints and demanding to write " explanatory" about non-belonging to extremist organizations.

In mid-February 2008, in Moscow, a group of Nazi skinheads collided with a Jewish woman in the subway. Seeing her, they began to chant "Jews get out of Russia" . Only the presence of several police officers nearby saved the woman from the attack. However, the police did not stop or detain the neo-Nazis. Sources Abraham Shmulevich. Extreme Russian nationalism // APN. Ru. 2008. February 28.

On February 25, 2008, at the Pochinki station in Nizhny Novgorod, members of the . White 88 Society attacked graffiti artists The members of the group were detained and the case was taken to court in September 2009. Sources Sormovsky District Court of Kovalev L. Nizhny Novgorod will consider the case against members of the extremist group "OB - 88" // NIA "Nizhny Novgorod". 2009. 24 September.

On January 17, 2008, in Moscow, at the Prospect Vernadsky metro station, a Chinese man, presumably a RUDN student, was attacked. He was chased by a Nazi skinhead for some time. The young man asked for help from the guard on duty at the turnstiles, but the woman did not pay any attention to him. Having reached the crossing, the Chinese again ran into the Nazi. There was a fight, in which a third person intervened, who also began to beat the visitor.

On February 27, 2008, Vladimir Churov, chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, during a visit to the Moscow Jewish Community Center, announced that the propaganda newspaper of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation "Pskovskaya Iskra" had been arrested for xenophobia. "The perpetrators have been punished, the newspaper has been arrested, a trial is underway ," said V. Churov. Under what articles a criminal case was initiated, it is not reported.

On February 27, a jury delivered a verdict of not guilty against a resident of Makhachkala, Sultan Arslangereev, who was accused of murdering the city's mosque imam, Dagir Kachaev, Interfax reports . S. Arslangereev was found not guilty on all counts of the charge. He was released from custody, the jury was dismissed. The final verdict in the case will be delivered on March 3.

On February 27, a seminar was held by the Federal Registration Service with representatives of centralized religious organizations on issues of compliance with the legislation governing their activities. Lyubov Polyakova, Head of the NGO Control Department, reminded the audience that, in accordance with the requirement of Article 32 of the NGO Law and RF Government Decree No.

On February 21, 2008, in Yekaterinburg, a group of unknown persons severely beat four Tajik citizens who were working at a construction site. The attack took place in the evening near house 42a on Mashinnaya Street, when workers were returning to the construction site from a nearby store. The Tajiks managed to escape and take refuge in the construction site. One of the builders was seriously injured. He and another injured Tajik were hospitalized in the city hospital 36.

On February 26, 2008, the first meeting of the diocesan department for combating drug addiction and alcoholism took place in Stavropol. The meeting participants outlined ways to open new counseling centers and branches of the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Rehabilitation Center for Assistance to Drug Addicts. They also discussed the goals, objectives, structure of the new diocesan department and determined a work plan for the near future.

In mid-February 2008, in Smolensk, by decision of the regional Electoral Commission, 60 thousand copies of the information bulletin "Communist of Smolensk Region" were seized from the printing house on suspicion that it contained calls for inciting social hatred. This is, apparently, about the material called "What you need to know about the Liberal Democratic Party and Zhirinovsky." The regional electoral committee sent the ballot for examination to the prosecutor's office.

The local youth movement is preparing a protest action against the construction of a Krishna religious center reports in the Molzhaninovo district (the northern district of Moscow), Interfax .