The Department of the Federal Tax Service (UFMS) of the Russian Federation for the Samara Region fined a local Muslim organization for 250,000 rubles. In March, a citizen of Uzbekistan, Rakhimov, who was in Russia illegally, was detained in the Historical Mosque of Samara. “As you know, we do not check the passports of those who come to us to pray. If someone is illegally on the territory of Russia, this is the business of the relevant authorities, not us.

During the first three months of 2008, the prosecutors of the Ulyanovsk region revealed 141 violations of the law on combating extremist activity. To eliminate the identified violations, "14 cases of administrative offenses were initiated, 3 legal acts were challenged, 43 submissions were made, 11 warnings were announced, an application was sent to the court to recognize the materials as extremist (currently satisfied)" .

The office of the Narconon Healthy Lifestyle Promotion Center in Dimitrovgrad, Ulyanovsk Region, was searched. Documents on the courses of treatment passed by patients, computers, educational audio and video materials, medicines, and accounting documentation were seized.

On April 18, 2008, a criminal case was initiated in Novosibirsk under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity) for trafficking in anti-Semitic materials.

On April 17, the plenum of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Tatarstan (DUMT) decided to remove Valiulla Yakupov from the post of first deputy chairman of the DUMT. The reason was his proposal to burn literature on Islam included in the list of extremist materials. The initiators of the resignation were outraged by the fact that V. Yakupov compared some of the books on this list with Mein Kampf.

Rector of the Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Kadashi (Moscow), Archpriest Alexander Saltykov, on behalf of the parishioners to the Human Rights Center of the World Russian People's Cathedral (VRNS). The believers are asking to help businessman Vasily Boyko, who is under investigation, to whom the investigation does not allow him to meet with his confessor. "The investigation violates Boyko V.V.'s constitutional guarantee for religion.

On April 14, the City Court of St. Petersburg delivered a verdict of not guilty to three accused of attempted murder of Valentina Matvienko. Timur Saidgareev, Ravil Muratov and Vladislav Baranov were charged with creating an Islamic terrorist organization to prepare an assassination attempt. On April 7, the defendants were acquitted by the jury. On April 17, the prosecution appealed the verdict.