On April 24 and 25, 2008, the VI International Scientific and Practical Conference "Tolerance and Intolerance in Modern Society: East-West" was held at St. Petersburg State University. Among the conference participants: consuls general of Norway, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, USA, Finland, Sweden, Japan. The event was attended by: Chairman of the Committee for External Relations of St. Petersburg A. Prokhorenko, Deputy.

On April 23, 2008, the verdict of the Kyshtym City Court of the Chelyabinsk Region against four local residents who “on the basis of hostile relations” beat a married couple and forced them to draw a swastika came into force. At the court session, the prosecutor fully proved that in Kyshtym in October 2006, the defendants "came to the apartment of the victims on Vayner Street." They beat a man and a woman with their hands, feet "and various household items" on the head and body.

On March 17, the pastor of the United Methodist Church (UMC) of Smolensk, Alexander Vtorov, addressed an open letter to V. Putin in connection with the inspection of Smolensk Methodists, carried out by law enforcement agencies at the request of an Orthodox bishop. (March 24 UMC Smolenskaya was liquidated by the court).

On April 24, 2008, in Moscow, unknown persons beat 10-year-old Fakhri Dzhamardov (previously reported Zakhrip Dzharda), living in one of the houses on Jan Rainis Blvd. Passers-by discovered the child, beaten and lying in blood, and called an ambulance. The boy was hospitalized with a closed head injury, concussion, broken nasal bones, a head wound and a concussion of the left eye. The child is in a state of shock.

On April 19-20, the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM) conducted a survey on the attitude of Russians towards religion. 1,500 people were surveyed in 46 regions. 59% of respondents called themselves Orthodox, 2% classified themselves as other Christian denominations, 6% as Islam, 2% as other religions; 5% found it difficult to name a specific denomination. 26% do not consider themselves believers. Of those who consider themselves Orthodox, only 10% go to church at least once a month.

On April 25, a Samara court sentenced Sergei Salamatin, publisher of the Slavonic Almanac Khors magazine, to a fine of 30,000 rubles. In March, the Federal Court of the Soviet District of Samara declared the magazine extremist and banned its distribution. The criminal case against the publisher was initiated under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

On April 24, 2008 in Moscow, in the Izmailovo district, unidentified persons beat up Chinese citizen Ma Ning. According to the victim, unknown persons approached him and started beating him for no apparent reason. As a result of the attack, the foreigner's nose was broken. After receiving medical care in the hospital, the victim was released home. An investigation is being carried out, the police are establishing all the circumstances of the incident.

On April 24, 2008, the head of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate, Colonel-General of Militia Vladimir Pronin, speaking at a meeting of the public council at the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, said that the Moscow police in 2008. uncovered 52 crimes "committed on the basis of ethnic hatred." "As part of the investigation of these criminal cases, 43 suspects have already been charged, 22 of them are minors ," V. Pronin said.

On April 19 and 25, regular pickets were held in Ryazan in support of the Ryazan Kremlin Museum-Reserve. The initiators of the pickets were the Public Committee in Support of the Ryazan Kremlin and the Association of Creative Teachers of Russia. Members of the cultural and ethnographic center "Old Ryazan", representatives of the "Civil Power" party and other organizations took part in the protest.

On April 25, 2008, the Investigation Department under the Investigative Committee for the Perm Territory issued a decision not to open a criminal case against human rights activist Igor Averkiev under Articles 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public calls for extremist activity) and 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred).

On April 25, 2008, the Samara court sentenced Sergei Salamatin, the publisher of the neo-pagan magazine Slavonic Almanac Khors, to a fine of 30,000 rubles. Recall that S. Salamatin carried out the publication and distribution of the journal in the period from August 2005 to January 21, 2007. against S.