The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation satisfied the application of the Prosecutor General's Office and recognized the Nurcular organization as extremist, banning its activities in Russia. A criminal case against the organization was initiated in 2005. In 2006, it was suspended due to the absence of those responsible, and in December 2007 it was resumed.

On April 9, bailiffs came to classes at the Faculty of History, Political Science and Law of the Russian State Humanitarian University (RGGU) and demanded to vacate the premises. They presented a copy of the writ of execution dated 2004 on the transfer of the building occupied by the faculty at 9 Nikolskaya Street to the Zaikonospassky Monastery.

On April 8, 2008, the decisions of the Ufa court on recognizing as extremist the magazine "Al-Wai" (for April 2007) and the leaflet "Obligation to unite in order to return the Caliphate" came into force. Earlier, the prosecutor's office of the Leninsky district of Ufa sent an application to the court for the recognition of these materials as extremist. At the end of March 2008, the applications of the prosecutor's office were granted.

On April 6, 2008, in Kazan, about 20 masked neo-Nazis attacked five people, musicians from the Upakovka Samrezov group from Volzhsk and musicians from the Spory group, participants in a punk concert at the Mayakovsky Yellow Jacket club. According to eyewitnesses, even during the concert, one of the neo-Nazis entered the hall. The security of the club, noticing a suspicious visitor, escorted him out into the street.

The prosecutor's office of the Leninsky district of Ufa conducted an inspection of compliance with the legislation on combating extremist activity and terrorism. In the course of the check, the Al-Waiy magazine for April 2007, which contained the Hizb-ut-Tahrir material, was confiscated from one resident of Ufa. During the same check, another Ufa resident had a leaflet "Obligation to rally in order to return the Caliphate" was confiscated.

On April 8, 2008, at a meeting of the Committee on Regulations and Organization of the Activities of the Saratov Regional Duma, it was decided to create a working group on a legislative initiative to the State Duma on a ban on the use of fascist symbols. The author of the initiative, the chairman of the committee, Alexandra Lando, said that "we see fascist signs on houses, on desecrated graves .

On April 9, 2008 in Krasnodar, during a home match between the Kuban football club and the Azhni team (Makhachkala), a group of Kuban fans shouted out intolerant words and stretched the appropriate banners in relation to the visiting team. According to the fans, this group of young people were removed from the stadium for an outburst. Monitoring of the Moscow Helsinki Group

On April 8, a judge of the Gorodishchensky District Court of the Penza Region overturned her own decision of February 21, 2008, declaring as extremist a number of books and pamphlets about Islam seized in the madrasah of the village of Srednyaya Yeluzan. The decision to recognize the seized literature as extremist was made in absentia, the examination was not carried out by specialists. The case has been remanded for retrial. The court hearing has been scheduled for May 6.

The Samara department of the Union of the Russian People made an open appeal to the city authorities in connection with the introduction of an automated fare collection system in transport. "What if our conscience does not accept a human number, due to religious and other convictions, and if we firmly believe in the Apocalypse of John the Theologian, which speaks of a number with three sixes without which ... neither buy nor sell ..?

Within a few days, representatives of various law enforcement structures published information related to crimes of an "extremist orientation" and hate crimes in the Moscow region, and each time new data was heard. Moscow Prosecutor Yuri Semin was the first to speak on this subject, who on April 7, 2008 announced that at present the Moscow City Prosecutor's Office is investigating "more than 30 cases of attacks on people on the grounds of xenophobia" .

On April 9, 2008, in the city of Dzerzhinsk (Nizhny Novgorod region), about 15-20 young people (appearing to be 16-19 years old) severely beat two citizens of Uzbekistan, aged 44 and 47. The crime was committed in the evening in a forest belt within the city. The attackers broke 6 ribs to one of the victims, the second was stabbed in the back. Citizens of Uzbekistan were hospitalized. The issue of initiating a criminal case is being resolved.

On April 9, a meeting was held at the Ministry of Land and Property Relations of the Republic of Tatarstan on the issue of providing a land plot for the needs of the Sedmiozernaya Bogoroditskaya male hermitage. There is a livestock farm near the desert, for the maintenance of which the Ministry of Land Property of the Republic of Tatarstan decided to allocate a land plot of 25 hectares.

On April 3, FSB officers detained more than 30 Muslims in Bashkortostan on charges of involvement in Hizb ut-Tahrir. Numerous violations of due process were committed during the arrests. According to Islam.ru , “During the ensuing interrogations, Muslims were subjected to strong psychological pressure, they received threats and insults, they were subjected to methods of physical coercion. Some of the detainees were subjected to severe torture.