Governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matviyenko issued an order to transfer built-in chapels and prayer rooms that are in city ownership to religious organizations. Appropriate amendments have been made to the local law on the transfer of property to religious organizations. At the same time, Credo.ru notes, the fate of “the chapels located in the so-called “cultural heritage sites” remains unclear.

On May 6, 2008, the federal law “On amendments to certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation in connection with the improvement of public administration in the field of state registration” was published. According to the new law, the functions of “justice authorities” provided for by the law “On Combating Extremist Activities” are transferred to the Federal Registration Service of Russia (FRS).

The prosecutor's office of the Sverdlovsk region of Perm conducted an inspection of the activities of the local organization of yogis. The audit found that the members of this organization were subjected to mental influence, as a result of which they completely changed their attitude to the world.

On May 1, 2008, in Bryansk, at a concert held in the evening on the city's embankment, Nazi skinheads beat up an emo girl of "non-Slavic appearance." Several neo-Nazis dragged her behind cars and began punching and kicking her. According to unverified information, the victim suffered a concussion. Own inf.

On May 8, 2008, students of the Chelyabinsk State Academy of Culture and Arts, with the participation of the Department of Youth Affairs of Chelyabinsk and Gorzelenstroy, held a community work day on the Aloe Field. The event was attended by 15 people who erased fascist inscriptions from the monuments. A student who took part in the event noted that "the Nazi swastika is everywhere on the monuments - the skinheads did their best . " Note that such actions are held in many cities of Russia.

May 6, 2008 in Moscow in the metro at 16.30 on the Filevskaya line, on the stretch between the stations "Kievskaya" and "Smolenskaya" (according to other sources, between the stations "Kievskaya" - "Park Pobedy"), there was a conflict between immigrants from Azerbaijan, and two (according to other sources, three) residents of Moscow, a schoolboy and a student of the Academy of Professions.

On May 8, 2008, activists of the Karelian branch of the Youth Human Rights Group reported that nationalists had become more active in Karelia. At the beginning of May 2008 in Petrozavodsk, inscriptions glorifying Nazi skinheads (skinhead), slogans "White power" began to appear on the walls of buildings, on fences.

On May 7, 2008, Igor Kulebyakin, the lawyer for the editor-in-chief of the Moskovskiye Vorota weekly, said that he had received a decision from the investigator of the Obninsk Department of the Investigative Committee to put Kulebyakin on the federal wanted list from April 12, 2008. Recall that in October 2007 in Obninsk, Igor Kulebyakin, who is the chairman of the Kaluga regional department of the RONS and the department of the Union of the Russian People (SRN), was charged under Art.

May 6, 2008 around 9:00 pm in Pskov, the leader of the neo-Nazi Freedom Party, Yuri Belyaev, was detained. Now he is under arrest. He was charged with Part 1 of Art. 282 (inciting national, racial or religious hatred). The press service of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Pskov region reported that Yu. Belyaev was going to be transferred to the Organized Crime Control Department of St. Petersburg, where the nationalist came from. It is not entirely clear whether Yu.

The Biblical Center of Evangelical Christians (Pentecostals) of the Chuvash Republic filed a complaint against Russian justice with the European Court of Human Rights. Recall that in August 2007 the Supreme Court of Chuvashia liquidated this organization for carrying out religious activities without a license. In October of the same year, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation confirmed this decision.

The prosecutor's office of the Sakmarsky district of the Orenburg region opened an administrative case against the madrasah of the village of Tatarskaya Kargala, which does not have a license for educational activities.

On May 5, in Ingushetia, policemen detained parishioners of one of the mosques in the Plievsky municipal district. One of the parishioners, Khamzat Gardanov, told the "Caucasian Knot" the details of what had happened: "When we were performing the afternoon prayer, 6-7 armed men in masks burst into the mosque, who did not introduce themselves and, without explaining anything, shouted: "Whose cars are standing on the street?