At the end of April 2008, in Volgodonsk (Rostov Region), the investigating authorities opened a criminal case under Part 1 of Article 282 (incitement of hatred or enmity, humiliation of human dignity) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation against a student of one of the lyceums of the city (born 1988) , who sent out SMS with "calls for inciting ethnic hatred." The investigation established that from June 25 to July 4, 2007, he sent more than 400 such SMS messages ("Death to Russian

April 19, 2008 in the Elbrus region before the match of the 6th round of the Russian Football Championship between Nalchik and Moscow "Spartak" there was a mass brawl of football fans, in which at least 10 people were injured on both sides. Three of them - fans of the Moscow "Spartak" - were hospitalized with gunshot wounds. A criminal case has been opened on the fact of the fight. Descriptions of the fight vary.

On April 10, one of the towers of a Gothic church collapsed in Samara. The commission of the Samara regional department of Rossvyazokhrankultura came to the conclusion that the reason was the violations committed during the repair of the roof. However, the Minister of Culture and Youth Policy of the Samara Region, Olga Rybakova, believes that we should talk about a complex of reasons, the main of which is the constant dynamic load from the movement of trams a few meters from the temple.

On April 30, 2008, a jury in the Moscow City Court issued a verdict in the case of the explosion in the summer of 2006 at the Cherkizovsky market. The jury found the defendants guilty. "The jurors issued a decision, according to which, in general, a guilty verdict was issued against all the defendants.

Community of the Church of St. Nicholas of the city of Kolpino (Leningrad region) became the initiator of protests against the concert of Boris Moiseev scheduled for May 21. The Orthodox are demanding that a "well-known propagandist of homosexuality" not be allowed to speak on the eve of the feast of the transfer of the relics of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker.

In March 2008, radical right websites started to circulate a list of Chief Justices, including their home addresses and personal information. The list later expanded to include personal data on high-ranking procuracy officials, MIA (MVD) employees, as well as public figures and scientists who work on the problem of xenophobia in Russia. The list already includes about 50 names.

On April 28, 2008, the leadership of FC Lokomotiv and the club's security service announced their intention to suppress "acts of nationalism and fascism at the stadium" in every possible way.

In Moscow, teenagers were detained who had beaten a 10-year-old boy, Fakhri Jamardov. One of the suspects Dmitry M. was detained on April 26, 2008 and released on April 27, 2008 on bail. The second one, Yury (Georgy) Ch., was detained on April 27, 2008 and is now in custody. The teenagers were familiar with the victim and visited him. During the interrogations, the detainees said that they wanted to take away the key from F.

There were at least 24 racist and Neo-Nazi assaults in April 2008, leaving 6 people dead and at least 38 injured. These numbers do not include the victims of the mass scuffle in the Tver Region, which occurred on April 5, because we are unsure of the nationalistic motivation of the participants. Apart from Moscow, the attacks took place in Vladivostok, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, St. Petersburg, Penza, Ryazan, and Stavropol.

In April 2008, at least 24 racist and neo-Nazi attacks were recorded, resulting in 6 deaths and at least 38 injuries. Note that these statistics do not include victims of the mass brawl in the Tver region on April 5, since we are not sure about the nationalist motivation of its participants. In addition to Moscow, the attacks took place in Vladivostok, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, St. Petersburg, Penza, Ryazan and Stavropol.

On April 29, 2008, the Prosecutor of the Altai Territory, Alexander Kochergin, held a working meeting with representatives of religious, national-cultural associations and youth organizations "on issues of cooperation in the field of countering extremism." The meeting was attended by the heads of the Federal Security Service, the Organized Crime Control Department under the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, the Federal RS for the Altai Territory, the Administrations of the Territory and the

On April 24, 2008, in the Dorogomilovsky Court of Moscow, preliminary court hearings were held in the case of the former leader of the right-wing radical group "Red Blitzkrieg", 29-year-old Andrei Morozov. A. Morozov is charged with art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity) art. 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public calls for extremist activities), art.

The prosecutor's office of the Astrakhan region has completed a criminal investigation into the creation of an extremist community, "the main purpose of which was to form a negative attitude towards Judaism as a religious movement and its followers, by presenting a negative image of Jews and asserting the innate depravity of this nation." We are talking about the popular movement "Towards God's Power", the creators of which were residents of Akhtubinsk: leading engineer of the Sukhoi

On April 29, 2008, in Moscow, a round table was held at Moskovsky Komsomolets, dedicated to “problems of interethnic conflicts,” in which “representatives of nationalist organizations (Slavic Union, DPNI, RONS, etc.) and representatives of Caucasian communities took part ", members of the "Russian Congress of the Peoples of the Caucasus" (RCNK). A. Potkin tried to show a provocative video depicting “persons of non-Slavic appearance” mocking the monarchist flag.