The Ossetian center Charta Caucasica has published a study of xenophobic, primarily anti-Ossetian tendencies of the well-known website Ingushetia.Ru. Since the author of the study, Aleksey Bataev, polemicizes with some of the SOVA Center's assessments and obviously partially uses our methodology for analyzing hate speech in the media, we should at least briefly comment on this study.

The "Memorial" Society has expressed concern about the plans to install a 100-meter statue of Christ by Zurab Tsereteli on the Solovetsky Islands. "Personally, I am very distrustful of a certain gigantomania that is inherent in Zurab Tsereteli. It seems to me that gigantomania and Solovki are incompatible," told Interfax .

On the night of April 11, 2008 in Orenburg, five (previously three were reported) young people (20-22 years old) “painted an image of a Nazi swastika” on the facade of a synagogue building with black paint and wrote expressions “insulting Jews on the basis of nationality.” The attackers were detained on July 2, 2008. In July 2008, a criminal case was opened .

In Kaluga, the construction of a mosque is being completed, the grand opening of which is scheduled for 2009. "Construction began back in 2002, but then the local residents were very indignant and dissatisfied with our activity, they collected signatures, advocating the abolition of the permit for construction work, went to the city administration, which decided to check whether our activities were legal.

In 2008, in the city of Mytishchi, Moscow Region, a group of 3-4 young people attacked a native of the Congo, shouting racist insults. Fortunately, the man managed to escape. He did not contact the police. Sources Information provided by the organization "Civil Assistance".

At the beginning of April 2008, the official "List of public and religious associations, other non-profit organizations in respect of which the court made a final decision to liquidate or ban activities on the grounds provided for by the Federal Law" On Countering Extremist activity" . We remind you that the SOVA Center is aware of a number of court decisions, according to which organizations are recognized as extremist and terrorist (see the section "Documents of state bodies" .

The Moscow authorities decided to dismantle the advertising structure on the facade of the house near the church of St. Theodore the Studite at the Nikitsky Gate.

On April 7, 2008, at about 21:30 in Moscow, not far from the Vykhino metro station, a group of Nazi skinheads attacked 24-year-old Bashir Oziev and Nalgiev, natives of Ingushetia. One of the attackers stabbed B. Oziev in the back, the native of Ingushetia died from the wound. Nalgiev managed to take the knife from the killer and wound two hooligans. After that, the attackers fled. The wounded were hospitalized. A criminal case has been opened on this fact.

On April 10, 2008, a round table "Youth against nationalism" was held in Sakhalin within the framework of the political club "For constructive cooperation". The event was attended by representatives of national diasporas, public organizations, students. According to Yakov Tomilko, senior detective for especially important cases of the Department of Economic Crimes of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Sakhalin Region, “extremism has always existed since the formation of the state.

On April 11, the State Duma rejected the bill on the transition to the Julian calendar. "For" voted only one deputy, the remaining 446 did not participate in the vote. Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building Alexander Moskalets noted that the arguments of the authors of the bill are largely based on religious preferences.

On April 11, 2008, a meeting of the Moscow City Court was held on the suit of the Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Ingushetia to ban the activity of the site Ingushetiya.ru for disseminating extremist materials. A decision was made to refuse to consider the case and to send the case to the Kuntsevsky District Court of Moscow. This decision was made due to the fact that the owner of the site, Magomed Evloev, is registered in the Kuntsevsky district.

On April 10, 2008, a seminar-conference was held in Krasnodar on the issues of prevention of extremism among the youth. Alexander Ryumin, Senior Assistant to the Regional Prosecutor for Supervision over the Enforcement of Laws on Combating Extremism and Terrorism, speaking at the meeting, said that in the Krasnodar Territory in 2005 one criminal case was opened on the fact of a crime of an extremist nature, in 2006 - 5 such cases, in 2007 - 6, and in the first quarter of 2008 - 2.