The prosecutor's office of the Smolensk region filed a lawsuit to liquidate the United Methodist Church (UMC) of Smolensk for organizing a Sunday school without obtaining a state license. A court hearing has been scheduled for March 19. According to pastor Alexander Vtorov, the prosecutor's office thus reacted to the appeal of the vicar of the Smolensk diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church MP, Bishop Ignatius (Punin), who accused the UMC of inciting religious hatred.

On March 8, 2008, two citizens of Kyrgyzstan were attacked in the town of Stupino near Moscow. On that day, Rustam Kirgizbaev, a native of Jalalabad region, born in 1961, left the house with a friend to pay utility bills. On the way they were attacked by strangers. Rustam Kirgizbaev died from stab wounds on the spot. The second Kirghiz managed to escape. Whether the robbery of the Kyrgyz was committed is not reported.

Since the beginning of 2008, banknotes with inscriptions calling for reprisals against non-Slavs began to appear in many areas of the Sakhalin region. “About a dozen of these banknotes were given to us by citizens and banks. Mostly these are the most popular banknotes in denominations of 100 and 50 rubles. We handed over the materials on these cases to the prosecutor’s office for evaluation. The identities of the citizens spreading these calls are being established,” said an FSB representative.

On March 14, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation cited statistics on the disclosure of crimes committed on ethnic grounds and detentions on them since the beginning of 2008 in Moscow. "The situation in Moscow has become more complicated lately. Most often they attack citizens who have arrived from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Since the beginning of the year, the activities of four youth groups have been suppressed in the capital.

The all-Russian public movement "All-Russian Parents' Assembly" calls on supporters of the inclusion of the "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture" in the state standards being developed to send appropriate appeals to the heads of regional educational structures, as well as to V. Putin and D. Medvedev.

Summary Manifestations of radical nationalism : Violence : Anti-Semitism : Islamophobia : Other Incidents of Xenophobic Vandalism : Activity of Right-Wing Radical Organizations : Xenophobia on Behalf of the State Counteraction to radical nationalism : Public Opposition : Lawmaking : Criminal prosecution of right-wing radicals : Extremist Materials : Other Measures of Suppression Excessive and unfounded actions against extremism : Extremist Materials : Persecution of Civil Society Activists :

On March 14, UEFA launched an investigation into the racist behavior of Zenit fans towards French Marseille footballers during the UEFA Cup round of 16 match in St. Petersburg on March 12. At the match, during which Zenit won, Zenit fans shouted racist slogans. Black footballers Dede, Ronald Zubar and Charles Kabure were racistly attacked by fans of the St. Petersburg club while warming up outside the goal near the stadium field.

On March 8 and 10, 2008, a group of three people was detained in the Moscow region, 19-year-old resident of the Stupinsky district Maxim Strakhov, as well as two vocational school students aged 16 and 17, who on March 8 attacked two citizens of Kyrgyzstan and stabbed one of them , from which he died on the spot. One of the group was detained in hot pursuit, on the day the crime was committed, the other two on March 10.

The head of the department of culture of the Sakhalin region, V. Bedzhisov, said at the collegium of culture of the region that the administration of the region and employees of cultural institutions do not pay due attention to Muslims, considering cooperation with the Orthodox as a priority. According to V.

On the night of March 13, 2008 in Samara, a man committed a nationalistic trick. He stuck on the street to a woman passing by and, using foul language, began to threaten her with violence and murder. After that, he began to throw wooden sticks towards the woman and her relatives walking with her. When they took refuge in their house, the man broke three window panes in it. The attack and its nationalistic motive became known from the news about the initiation of a criminal case.

Ambulance workers in Oktyabrsky of the Chelyabinsk region conducted an autopsy on the body of a deceased Muslim woman, despite the protests of her relatives. An elderly woman was going to visit her daughter, but suddenly died right at the bus stop. The relatives asked the doctors of the arrived ambulance to take the body home in order to bury it in the morning.

The Chelyabinsk branch of the Young Guard, together with representatives of "traditional" religious organizations and law enforcement agencies, is developing a system to combat "sects." The head of the movement's regional branch, Vladimir Burmatov, told the Chelyabinsk Route newspaper that often clinics that treat drug addicts are actually "sects." "It is fundamentally impossible to influence and solve this problem by pickets of the Young Guard alone.