On April 24, 2008, in Voronezh, in the Dolphin recreation park, two cadets of the Voronezh Aviation Engineering School (VVVAIU), citizens of Kazakhstan, were beaten. They were attacked by seven young people aged 19-20, armed with a piece of metal pipe and stones. Five people shouting "Russia is for the Russians!" foreigners were beaten, and the other two filmed the beatings on a cell phone camera.

In April 2008, a local resident suffered from racially motivated violence in Voronezh. He was attacked by five African students (two of them from Chad, the third from Mali, two more have not been identified), who, a few minutes before, had been subjected to racist insults at one of the shops. Not catching up with the offender, who managed to escape, the students beat the first passerby they came across on the street - taking out on him the insult for the insult received.