In early April 2008, Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev accused football websites of extremism. During a meeting on security issues for football matches in the 2008 season, the minister also said that he was "concerned by manifestations of extremism among fans in stadiums and on their way to matches . " At the same time, Nurgaliyev made special mention of the hooligan.ru website, which "relishes the crimes and offenses of many fans, including those abroad . " R.

On April 8, the Nalchik Magistrate's Court began considering a criminal case under Art. 129 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (slander) against the chairman of the executive committee of the Council of Elders of the Balkar People (SSBN) Oyus Gurtuev. According to the prosecutor's office of the KBR, Gurtuev accused the president of the republic, Arsen Kanokov, of committing grave crimes, including terrorism.

The commander of the 22nd Army, Major General Sergei Yudin, addressed the leadership of the Nizhny Novgorod diocese with a proposal for cooperation. A priest has been appointed to each unit of the 22nd Guards Army who will care for soldiers and officers, Blagovest-info reported on April 7. As part of this cooperation agreement, it is also planned to organize a library of Orthodox literature and joint events with the participation of representatives of the diocese and the military in each part.

On April 8, 2008, in Moscow, near one of the houses located in the corner lane, 18-year-old Maxim Baev painted a swastika on the facade of a transformer substation. The image was applied using a red enamel spray can. The second teenager, 17-year-old resident of the Moscow region, Vladimir V., using the same can, wrote nationalistic inscriptions on the facade of the substation and the nearby shell garage. The vandals were convicted in February 2009.

On April 7, a cooperation agreement was signed between the Yaroslavl diocese and the regional health department. The document was signed, on the one hand, by Archbishop Kirill of Yaroslavl and Rostov, and on the other, by the head of the regional health department, Igor Kagramanyan. The agreement provides a legal basis for long-established relations.

In early April 2008, a St. Petersburg court arrested Viktor Popov, 27, Dmitry Tkachuk, 21, and Olesya Korovyakova, 23, who attacked foreign students on April 1. Soon the investigation will charge them. Recall that the criminal case was initiated by the Investigation Department for the Nevsky District under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for St. Petersburg under paragraph "a" part 2 of article 282, part 3 of article 30, part 1 of art.

On April 3, 2008, a criminal case was initiated in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk under Part 1 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public calls for extremist activity) and Part 1 of Art.

On April 8, a picket was held in Chelyabinsk against the use of the former kindergarten building by Jehovah's Witnesses. Activists of the "Young Guard" movement are going to ask the city authorities to return the kindergarten to children and have already collected about two thousand signatures in support of this initiative.