On April 1, in Yekaterinburg, Chairman of the Regional Government Viktor Koksharov and Archbishop of Yekaterinburg and Verkhoturye Vikenty signed an agreement on cooperation between the regional government and the Yekaterinburg diocese "in promoting sobriety, preventing alcoholism and promoting a healthy lifestyle," Patriarchia.ru reports .

On March 27, 2008, Anemzhan Khudoykulov, a 31-year-old construction worker from Tajikistan, was beaten up in the village of Orzhitsy, Lomonosovsky District, Leningrad Region. A. Khudoykulov was attacked by three young people with sheep dogs when he was returning from the store. Young people set dogs on a native of Tajikistan. One of the attackers filmed what was happening on a mobile phone camera.

On April 1, 2008, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation refused to review the case on recognizing the NBP as an extremist organization. Previously, the party unsuccessfully tried to appeal the decision to ban the Moscow City Court.

On March 31 and April 1, the Russian State University for the Humanities (RGGU) hosted an international conference "Religion and Education: Russian and International Experience". The organizers of the forum are the Center for the Study of Religions of the Russian State Humanitarian University and the International Center for the Study of Religion and Law at the University. Brigham Young (USA), reports Blagovest-info .

On April 1, 2008, at the Sunsets of Ilyich state farm in the Lodeynopolsky district, the local administration banned the performances of a traveling circus led by Erast Laimov, citing the law on combating extremist activities. The scandal was caused by the nicknames of two circus animals. The poster, pasted up in the village the day before, said: "Fights without rules. Only this season.

On April 1, 2008, the governor of St. Petersburg, Valentina Matvienko, at a meeting of the city government, stated that "St. Petersburg has always been a multinational city, there have never been interethnic conflicts. In the minds of a Petersburger, tolerance has always been from childhood, like an inoculation. " According to V. Matvienko, the city authorities have always given "a tough assessment of manifestations of interethnic hatred .

On April 1, 2008, the Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg recognized as extremist leaflet “What and how. Guide to street terror. The leaflet was found in the possession of one of the witnesses within investigation of a criminal case under Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred), initiated by the prosecutor's office of the Udmurt Republic on November 28, 2006.

On March 24, 2008, Nazi skinheads beat up a punk in Voronezh. There were more than 10 attackers. The punk was kicked with heavy boots for about 40 minutes. None of the passers-by interceded for the beaten man. The victim left a statement with the police. Some of the attackers have been identified. Based on internet blogs.

In Samara, one of the mobile phone stores of Euroset Samara LLC sold handbags for mobile phones "with the image of elements of Nazi symbols (swastikas)". The accessory features two swastikas. One sign is depicted "in the correct position, and the second inverted" ... "Thus, the society carried out a public demonstration and implementation of Nazi symbols, including symbols confusingly similar to Nazi ones ," the prosecutor's office of the Samara region clarifies.

On March 31, 2008, it became known that a criminal case was initiated against the leader of the North Ossetian branch of the United Civil Front, Vissarion Aseev, on charges of "extremism." The reason for initiating the case was the material "Manifesto of Aseev Vissarion Vladimirovich", published in the newspaper "Ossetia. Svobodny vzglyad" on November 30, 2007.

In March 2008, at least 31 attacks were carried out in Russia, motivated by the neo-Nazi and racist attitudes of the attackers, as a result of which at least 40 people were injured, 10 of whom died. In total, since the beginning of 2008, at least 39 people have died and at least 112 people have been injured in 14 regions of Russia. The main center of neo-Nazi violence is Moscow - 24 killed and at least 63 wounded, including in March - 5 killed and 20 wounded.

On February 21, 2008, the Gorodishchensky City Court ruled in absentia on the recognition of Idris Galyautdin's book "For good - good, and for evil - evil", which was among the materials seized from the madrasah of the village of Srednyaya Yeluzan , extremist, - reports the website of lawyer Rustem Valiullin, representative of I Galyautdin. The summons to appear at the court session was received only on February 27, 2008, that is, a week after the controversial decision was made.