The conference on planning the strategy of the Russian Union of Evangelical Christian Baptists (RS ECB) "Spreading the Gospel in Russia", which was supposed to be held in Mordovia on March 4-6, has been postponed to April. The government of Mordovia proposed to the organizers of the event to postpone it, since it became known that the Nashi movement intended to interfere with the conference. "Nashi" promised to arrange a crowded picket in front of the building of the church "New Life".

On February 28, 2008, it became known that in St. Petersburg, within the framework of the "Tolerance" program, employees of the district prosecutor's offices of the city take part in meetings of the collegiums of district administrations, at which "issues of interethnic and intercultural relations, prevention of manifestations of xenophobia, strengthening tolerance in the city. In connection with the implementation of the program in St. Petersburg".

On February 8, 2008, the Levada Center published the data of the "Internal Threat to Russia" survey. held on January 18-22, 2008 among 1600 Russians The statistical error does not exceed 3%. In the course of the study, respondents were asked to answer the question "What, in your opinion, is now the main internal threat to Russia?" Threats of extremism and separatism were named among the answers. However, they practically do not disturb the Russians.

The Rossvyazokhrankultura Department for the Nizhny Novgorod Region revealed violations during the restoration of the Sarov Pustyn monastery complex. On February 26-28 Rossvyazohrankultura together with the administration of Sarov and the city prosecutor's office carried out a comprehensive inspection of the state of historical and cultural monuments of federal significance, which are part of the Sarov Hermitage complex. A total of 52 objects were checked.

In December 2007, Levada Center published data from another survey aimed at determining the level of anti-migrant and, more broadly, ethno-nationalist sentiments of Russians. The survey was conducted November 20-23, 2007 among 1,600 respondents. The statistical error does not exceed 3%.

February 27, 2008 in Nizhny Novgorod a seminar "Migration and stable interethnic relations - factors of safe socio-economic and cultural development of the Nizhny Novgorod region" was held. The event was organized by the Federal Migration Service together with the Nizhny Novgorod Law Academy.

The Daily Journal published two polemical articles on the conviction of Maxim (Tesak) Martsinkevich, who received a real and rather serious sentence for a neo-Nazi stunt in the Bilingua club. Unfortunately, it should be noted that the controversy over the sentence Tesak . In our opinion, it was not very correct, but at the same time, it seems necessary for us to note it, since in general such discussions are now quite rare.

In early March, a group of Orthodox laity posted on the Internet an appeal addressed to the future president of Russia calling for the adoption of a law on the homeless. The draft law was submitted to the State Duma in the summer of 2007. Since its initiator, Vladimir Vasiliev, did not enter the new Duma, the discussion of the bill is no longer on the agenda of the lower house of parliament. The authors of the appeal note that private charity cannot solve the problem of the homeless.

In Samara, by a court decision, one of the Muslim sites ("Islam as it is") is recognized as extremist and banned.