Supreme Court of the Russian Federation approved the acquittal of Roman Polusmyak, accused of the May . On April 7, 2008, the 2006 murder of 19-year-old Armenian youth Artur Sardaryan Recall that the lead case was initiated under paragraphs. "g, l" part 2 tbsp. 105 of the Criminal Code (murder committed by a group of persons motivated by national hatred). The second participant in the crime has not yet been identified.

The head of the synodal department of the Moscow Patriarchate for interaction with the Armed Forces, Archpriest Dimitry Smirnov, believes that the creation of an institute of chaplains in the Russian army will require about 250 million rubles, Interfax reported on April 9. “We carried out these calculations last year,” he explained.

On April 6, 2008, in the village of Orzhitsi, Lomonosovsky District, Leningrad Region, two young people were detained, suspected of attacking a builder from Tajikistan, Anemzhan Khudoykulov. The detainees are local residents. According to them, the attack was committed out of selfish motives. Under what article a criminal case was initiated, it is not reported. Sources The attack on a Tajik in Orzhytsy was revealed // 47news.Ru. 2008. 9 April.

On April 9, 2008, the Moscow City Court upheld the conviction of the leader of the neo-Nazi group Format 18, 23-year-old Maxim Martsinkevich (Tesak). In his cassation appeal, Martsinkevich stated that he repented of his actions, which he committed “due to his youth, ardor, and lack of upbringing,” and asked to commute the sentence by imposing a punishment not related to imprisonment.

On April 9, First Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of Educational Work of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant-General Vladimir Buslovsky, said that about two thousand priests of the Russian Orthodox Church are serving on a voluntary basis in the Russian army. Among them, 950 people work on a permanent basis. V. Buslovsky also noted that the Armed Forces work with representatives of all major religions, including Judaism and Islam.

On April 9, 2008, a criminal case was initiated in Cherepovets under Part 1 of Art. in the library of the Bishops' Resurrection Metochion of the Russian Orthodox Church 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred) on the fact of showing the film "Russia with a knife in the back. Jewish fascism and the genocide of the Russian people" .

On April 8, an agreement on cooperation was signed between the North-Western Regional Command of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation and the St. Petersburg Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, the official website of the Moscow Patriarchate reports . The document was signed by the Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and Ladoga Vladimir and the commander of the North-Western Regional Command of the Internal Troops, Lieutenant General Pavel Dashkov.

On March 30, 2008, in the Moscow region, on the platform "Perlovskaya" of the Yaroslavl direction, a group of Nazi skinheads chanted "Russia for the Russians!" , attacked a Tajik. The man was beaten in the stomach and head. According to an eyewitness, the Tajik managed to run into the train car, and the police chased the Nazi skinheads. Based on Internet blogs

In Cherepovets, a criminal case has been opened on the fact of showing the film "Russia with a knife in the back: Jewish fascism and the genocide of the Russian people" in the library of the Bishops' Resurrection Metochion of the Russian Orthodox Church, RBC reports .

On April 9, 2008, the case of Boris Tolshchin, editor of the right-wing radical newspaper Kray, and Vladislav Maslikov, editor-in-chief of the newspaper, was sent to the Central District Court of Khabarovsk. They were charged under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting national hatred) for anti-Semitic propaganda. Sources Two residents of Khabarovsk to face trial on charges of inciting hatred on ethnic grounds // Interfax.Ru. 2008. 9 April.