On May 8, 2008, the Kalininsky District Court of St. Petersburg delivered a guilty verdict against 23-year-old unemployed Denis Markelov. He was found guilty under paragraph "a" part 3 of Art. 111 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm to a life-threatening person, committed out of hooligan motives for the motive of national hatred by a group of persons by prior agreement), Part 2 of Art.

On May 12, 2008, the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria began re-examination of the claim for the liquidation of the Council of Elders of the Balkar people. Recall that on March 18, 2008, the Judicial Collegium for Civil Cases of the Russian Supreme Court overturned the previous decision of the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria on the liquidation of the Council of Elders of the Balkarian People (CCBN), accused of extremism, and returned the case for a new trial.

On May 5, 2008, at the initiative of the prosecutor's office of the Northern District of Moscow, a search was carried out in the humanities bookstore "Phalanster". Finding neither the defunct newspaper "Limonka" nor other publications of the banned NBP there, employees of the Organized Crime Department confiscated hard drives from computers, paralyzing the store's operation.

We bring to your attention brief considerations of the SOVA Center. They do not pretend to be complete, let alone final, and are brought to life by the proposals that the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights came up with a few days ago. In accordance with our specialization, we do not undertake to comment on proposals in the field of combating fraud or the distribution of child pornography, but will focus our attention on propaganda of racial, religious, etc. hate.

Archpriest Vladimir Vorobyov, rector of the Orthodox St. Tikhon Humanitarian University, has proposed creating an interuniversity association of theological departments and faculties in Russia, Interfax reports . Such an Association, according to Father Vladimir, could become a platform for the exchange of experience and the solution of practical issues of departments and faculties in theology.

In May 2008, the city court of Yoshkar-Ola began a new, already fourth trial in the case of the recognition of Vitaly Tanakov's brochure "The Priest Speaks" as extremist. Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor of the Department of the History of the Russian Language at Nizhny Novgorod State University Elizaveta Koltunova, who carried out a linguistic examination of the brochure, found no signs of extremism in it.

On May 11, 2008, in Tula, three shaven-headed young men attacked two employees of the center of the regional charitable Jewish center "Hasdei Neshama", who were working in the yard. One of the attackers had a garden shovel in his hands. The security guard of the center witnessed the ensuing scuffle and called the police. The attackers were detained, one of them turned out to be a minor. Recall that the day before, unknown people wrote neo-Nazi slogans on the walls of the center.

On the night of May 8-9, 2008, in the center of Tula, unknown persons painted the facade of the Jewish cultural center building with fascist swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans. The inscriptions “Glory to Hitler”, “Kids go to the oven”, “Russia for the Russians” , as well as SS insignia. The inscriptions were made using aerosol cans of black paint. A police squad was called to the scene of the incident. The inscriptions have been erased. On one wall was the signature "skinheads".

On April 7, 2008, a criminal case was initiated in Naberezhnye Chelny under Part 1 of Art. an article entitled "No Christianization! " 282 (incitement of inter-ethnic and inter-religious hatred) on the fact of the appearance in January 2008 on the Internet of One of the initiators of the protests that followed reports of forced baptism in the maternity hospital was Rafis Kashapov, chairman of the branch of the Tatar Public Center.

On May 9, 2008, on the eve of Victory Day, anti-fascist hackers hacked into a neo-Nazi site and posted a photo of the Eternal Flame and a statement on the site. "We, representatives of the modern anti-fascist movement in Russia, congratulate veterans of the Second World War, all fighters against fascism and everyone who respects the history of their country, on Victory Day ...!

In early May 2008, in the center of Novokuznetsk, Nazi skinheads attacked participants in the "Day of Silence" action. "Fortunately, no one was severely injured, but one young man had abrasions and scratches on his body," said Ekaterina Zavyalova, organizer of the action. Recall that the action "Day of Silence", organized by LGBT organizations, was held in many cities of Russia. In St. Petersburg, were also attacked .

On May 12 in New York, the Council of Bishops of the Russian Church Abroad is to elect a new First Hierarch, reports Portal-Credo.ru . He will take the place of Metropolitan Laurus, who passed away in March 2008. After the vote of the council, the candidate must be approved by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II. There are 11 hierarchs claiming the main Orthodox rank abroad. The enthronement of the newly elected First Hierarch will end on May 18.

In the Rostov region, the prosecutor's office of the city of Shakhty sentenced three US residents - missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) to a fine for illegal teaching activities, Interfax reports .

On May 7, 2008, the investigative department of the Internal Affairs Department for the Borovichi District completed a preliminary investigation into the case of two residents of the town of Borovichi, Novgorod Region, who in January 2008 beat up a man who seemed to them to be "a person of Caucasian nationality." The case has been sent to court. The investigation was supervised by the Borovichi Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office.