On March 3, 2008, the Leninsky District Court of Ivanovo delivered a guilty verdict in the case of Sergei Novikov, who was accused of assaulting Rabbi Zvi Hershovich. S. Novikov was found guilty under Part 2, Clause "a" of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (humiliation of the dignity of a group of persons on the grounds of nationality and attitude to religion, committed in public, with the use of violence and the threat of its use), Part 2 of Art.

On March 4, 2008, it became known that the investigative department of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Central District of Krasnodar completed the investigation of the case against a 16-year-old girl, a student of an assembly college, who beat a Kenyan citizen and stabbed an Armenian citizen in December 2007. The case was transferred to the Pervomaisky District Court of Krasnodar .

On March 3, 2008, in the city of Ivanovo, the Leninsky District Court delivered a guilty verdict in the case of an attack by a group of young people (Sergey Novikov and Ivan Novikov) on the rabbi of the local synagogue, Zvi Hershovich, the head of the Ivanovo Jewish community, Canadian citizen Erwin Kirshtein, and several members of the community in June 2007 By the verdict of the G. Ivanovo court, Sergei Novikov was found guilty under paragraph "a" part 2 of Art.

At the March 4 presentation in Moscow of Sergei Komkov's book "Wahhabi", Nafigulla Ashirov gave an extremely negative assessment of Zionism, saying that "Zionism is a cancerous tumor, since Zionism is fascism." The Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia called on the Council of Muftis of Russia to give an objective assessment of this statement. says "This is yet another provocative statement in a series of statements by Nafigulla Ashirov.

On March 4, 2008, the prosecutor of the Central District of Voronezh approved an indictment against 3 residents of the city of the city, accused under Part 2 of Article 116 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (beating out of hooligan motives), accused of beating Iraqi citizen Hadi Ali Hussein. During the investigation, the accused pleaded guilty, but could not explain the reasons for their behavior. After the prosecutor approved the indictment, the criminal case was sent to court.

On January 31, 2008, in Voronezh, on Karl Marx Street, two residents of the city at the age of 20 and one minor beat up Iraqi citizen Hadi Ali Hussein, born in 1982, for no reason. postgraduate student of the Faculty of Philology, Voronezh State University. The criminal investigation was completed in early March 2008. Recall that earlier it was reported about the beating of an Iraqi citizen near the cinema "Spartak". However, the details of these attacks differ.

In 2008, the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography will allocate 7 million rubles for the repair and restoration of the Nativity (Stroganov) Church with a bell tower in Nizhny Novgorod. According to the federal agency, the department has announced an open tender for emergency response and repair and restoration work, NTA-Privolzhye reports . The source of funding is the federal budget.

At the end of February 2008, the leader and chief ideologist of one of the most scandalous projects of United Russia - the Russian Project - Ivan Demidov was appointed head of the party department for ideological work. This gave reason to talk about the closure of the Russian Project.