On April 17, 2008, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, speaking on the program "Facing the City" on the TV Center channel, said that the state should develop and adopt a number of laws that would toughen responsibility for xenophobic and nationalist manifestations. "Today, the state must take additional measures in the legislation so that a person of any skin color feels calm.

The Ordzhonikidzevsky court of Ufa found Said Baiburin guilty of public calls for extremist activity and sentenced him to a year and a half in prison in a penal colony, Interfax reports on April 16 . "The court found that the defendant, repeatedly speaking publicly to believers, promoted the exclusivity and superiority of Wahhabism and its adherents over other movements of Islam," the press service of the prosecutor's office of Bashkiria said. The prosecutor's office said that S.

Thanks to the intervention of the prosecutor's office, which showed interest in the return of the church building to the Voronezh Lutheran community of Mary Magdalene of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Russia (ELCR), this issue was resolved in one day, Blagovest-info reports on April 16 . Deacon Andrey Sysoev said that the solemn consecration of the church, which for a long time housed the Gorelektroset, was scheduled for April 20.

Nizhny Novgorod Muslims are protesting against the installation in the city Kremlin of a monument to the holy founders of Nizhny Novgorod - Prince Georgy Vsevolodovich and his spiritual father, the Monk Simon of Suzdal, Interfax reported on April 16. They consider it incorrect that when installing a monument in a public place, preference is given to one denomination.

On April 14, 2008, an Orthodox cross and a memorial stone laid in honor of the start of construction of the St. Elisabeth Church near the oncological dispensary of the city were mutilated in Penza. A first-year student of one of the Penza universities will later be found guilty of committing a crime, who, armed with an ax, broke a slab (which cannot be restored) and tried to cut down the cross. Moreover, apparently, this was not the first act of vandalism against the memorial plate.

March 23, 2008 in Nizhny Novgorod on the street. Bolshaya Pokrovskaya, a teenager who was in a group of like-minded people, shouting "We are patriots, we will kick you out of here" , threw a glass bottle at a group of followers of the Krishna Consciousness movement. A teenager hit a bottle in the head of a 42-year-old native of Armenia, who was in a group of Hare Krishnas.

On April 14, 2008 at 21:50 at 15:00 in Moscow on the Ochakovskoye Highway, the corpse of a 43-year-old resident of the village, stabbed with a knife, was found. Karagach Prokhladnensky district of Kabardino-Balkaria. The body recorded 12 stab wounds in the chest, abdomen, back, neck and arms. The man's death occurred about an hour before the police arrived. The scene of the incident was photographed, a folding knife, a jacket with traces of a brown substance were seized.

The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, at a meeting in Moscow, condemned the activities of the newspapers "The Spirit of the Christian" and "Easter of the Third Rome", published with the blessing of Bishop Diomede of Chukotka.

On April 16, the State Duma rejected bills aimed at strengthening criminal liability for crimes against clergy and for desecration of religious shrines, Interfax reports . Both bills were proposed by deputy Alexander Chuev (Fair Russia faction) and were considered in the first reading. A. Chuev proposed to consider crimes against clergy along with crimes against those who perform public duty.

In mid-April 2008, in Nizhny Novgorod, in the Dubki park, unknown vandals painted a swastika on the monument to M. Gorky. In addition, the vandals painted over the face with black paint and wrote obscene expressions. This was reported by a resident of the city, who sent a video to the media. Sources Vandals defaced the monument to Gorky // GTRK Nizhny Novgorod. 2008. 16 April.

On April 16, an agreement was signed on cooperation between the head of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate for the Novosibirsk Region, Sergei Glushkov, and the Archbishop of Novosibirsk and Berdsk, Tikhon. As part of this agreement, the clergy of the Novosibirsk region and police officers will be engaged in the joint education of offenders, Interfax reports . “Together with the Orthodox Church, an educational process should be carried out.