In early April, unidentified persons painted a synagogue in Vladivostok with swastikas. The militia began check on a subject of participation in the act of vandalism of the leader of the Far East "Union of Slavs". Recall that anti-Semitic inscriptions on the Vladivostok synagogue appeared in March 2007 and October 2006. Painted synagogue in Vladivostok. AKAB ran into the "Union of Slavs" // Union of Slavs of the Far East. 2008. April 5.

On April 20, 2008, in Stavropol, in the area of ​​residential buildings on Vasilyeva Street, a group of 8 shaven-headed young men attacked a Chechen and an Ingush who were leaving the entrance of a residential building. Ingush Islam Khamkhoev was wounded in the neck, and Chechen Ali Khamutaev, born in 1987. received several stab wounds to the heart. The attackers fled. When I. Khamkhoev woke up, he took his wounded friend to the hospital, where the man died.

On April 20, 2008, in Khimki, near Moscow, six Nazi skinheads painted swastikas on five models of military equipment displayed on Victory Square in Maria Rubtsova Square. All six young people are detained . Sources Hitler's birthday Moscow fascists "celebrated" in Khimki // NR2.Ru. 2008. April 21. Teenagers who painted swastikas in Khimki detained // Peoples of Russia.Ru. 2008. April 21.

On the night of April 20, in St. Petersburg, at the Leninsky Prospekt railway station, the police found a 2 by 1.5 meter flag hanging on a wire stretch over the roadway with the image of a Nazi swastika. On suspicion of a crime, a 17-year-old student of the 1st year of St. Petersburg GMTU and an 11-grader were detained. In the evening of the same day, on the roof of house 5 on Efimov Street, a red flag 4 by 3 meters with a swastika in a white circle was found caught on a television antenna.

The head of the Kazyyat Muslim Administration of the Tyumen Region (DUMACHR), Fatykh-hazrat Garifullin, sent a letter to the Director of the Department of Education and Science of the Government of the Tyumen Region, Irina Lysakova, in connection with the concept of teaching “Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture” proposed by the Russian Orthodox Church within the educational field of “Spiritual and Moral Culture”.

On April 20, 2008, one of the right-wing sites reported a pogrom in the dormitory of the Voronezh fire-technical school of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, which occurred a few days ago. The purpose of the pogromists were students from Chechnya living in a hostel. Right-wing sources report that the rioters entered the rooms where Chechens lived at night and beat them with baseball bats. According to the same information, several victims received head injuries.

In April, the first issue of the magazine "Catholic Messenger - Light of the Gospel" was published. The magazine is a continuation of the newspaper "Light of the Gospel", closed in 2007. It is expected that the magazine will be published monthly. Sources The Catholic newspaper "Light of the Gospel" became a monthly magazine // Interfax-religion. 2008. April 21.

On April 16, 2008, the Sovetsky District Court of Samara satisfied the demands of the district prosecutor and recognized as extremist the materials posted on the website of right-wing radical activist Oleg Kitter, and also banned the site.

The head of Roskultura, Mikhail Shvydkoy, in an interview with Kommersant, outlined his position on the financing of restoration work from the state budget. In his opinion, it is wrong that the monuments transferred to the ownership of the church do not fall under budget financing, "because the monuments become the property of the church not just like that, but thanks to various specific instructions, including thanks to the president's instructions." M.

On April 20, 2008, the website of the Holocaust Foundation was hacked, and "radical nationalist symbols" were posted on it . "Our website was hacked yesterday afternoon and, apparently, this is the work of neo-Nazis who decided to celebrate Hitler's birthday in this way," Alla Gerber, head of the foundation and member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, commented on the situation. Sources Russian website about the Holocaust hacked on Hitler's birthday // CorrespondentT.Net. 2008.

website According to the Vertograd , the authorities of the Bryansk region are putting pressure on the communities of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (ROAC). The tax inspectorate several times checked the activities of the ROAC parish in the village. Dalisichi, although the community submitted all the necessary reports on time. In with. Desyatukh Starodubsky district officials turned out to draw up documents for the temple previously transferred to the ROAC.

On April 12-13, the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) conducted a survey "Lent in the life of Russians." 1600 people were interviewed in 153 settlements in 46 regions of Russia. 73% of respondents identified themselves as Orthodox, 6% as Muslims, and less than 1% identified themselves as other confessions. 3% consider themselves believers, but do not belong to any denomination.

On April 19, a protest rally took place in Novopushkinsky Square in Moscow in defense of the Russian State Humanitarian University (RGGU), one of whose buildings is claimed by the Zaikonospassky Monastery.

On April 20, 2008, in Khimki near Moscow, six young people were detained for drawing swastikas on five models of military equipment exhibited on Victory Square. All young people turned out to be Muscovites, they are from 17 to 22 years old (according to other information, from 16 to 20 years old). The detainees were seized with paint cans, a flag and a keychain with a fascist swastika. The issue of initiating a criminal case is being resolved.

April 20, 2008 in Moscow at 10 Prechistenka Street, where in 1942 - 1948. appeared next to the memorial plaque the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee was working, a black stenciled image of Hitler and the inscription "Hitler was right" . Inc. inf.