Shortly before Victory Day in Nizhny Novgorod, vandals poured black paint over Muslim tombstones at the cemetery. Among the defiled is a monument erected at the grave of a veteran of the Great Patriotic War. The incident took place at the Novosormovskoye cemetery, in the part where the Tatars are buried. It was found that hooligans desecrated 9 graves of Muslim Tatars. The matter is currently under investigation.

On May 13, 2008, employees of the Center for Combating Terrorism of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia charged Muscovite Alexander Chervyakov, who was detained in May 2007, for distributing books "the content of which is aimed at inciting national, racial and religious hatred." The case was referred to the court for further consideration. A. Chervyakov is charged under Part 1 of Art.

On May 13, 2008, charges were brought under Part 1 of Art. 282 (incitement of national and religious hatred) to Yuri Samodurov, director of the Sakharov Museum and Public Center. A criminal case was initiated against him in connection with the exhibition “Forbidden Art - 2006”. In January 2008, the museum was searched , during which transcripts of visitors' speeches and a folder with publications about the exhibition were seized.

On May 13, 2008, the Primorsky District Court of St. Petersburg delivered a guilty verdict against 45-year-old Alexei Milyushin, finding him guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity). In August 2006, A. Milyushin sold DVDs with the film "The Modern Russian Idea under the Conditions of the Jewish Yoke" in the premises of the State Regional Educational Visitor Center.

In early May 2008, the Federal Registration Service of Russia updated the federal list of extremist materials as of May 1, 2008. And this is the eighth edition of the list. It should be noted that the bulk of the materials (13 out of 20) are materials recognized as extremist by the Tuymazinsky District Court on September 5, 2007. Part of the materials on this court decision was included in the third edition of the federal list of December 15, 2007.

On May 13, 2008, the Salsk city court (Rostov region) delivered a sentence under Part 3 of Art. 30, part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (attempt to incite national, racial or religious hatred). By a court decision, the accused S., who was an activist of the Rostov branch of the movement "National-Sovereign Way of Rus'", was sentenced to 6 months of corrective labor with a deduction of 10% of wages.

On May 12, 2008, a citizen of Uzbekistan, born in 1976, was killed in Reutov (Moscow region). The body of a man was found at house 5 on Stroiteley Street. Experts concluded that the death of a visitor from Uzbekistan was the result of stab wounds. No robbery reported. Sources Visitor from Uzbekistan killed in Moscow region // Interfax. 2008. May 13.

On May 12, the Council of Bishops elected Archbishop Hilarion of Sydney and Australia and New Zealand as First Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad, Patriarchia.ru reports . He was elevated to the rank of metropolitan. The election was made by an absolute majority of the votes of the ROCOR bishops.

On April 30, 2008, the Prosecutor's Office of Krasnoyarsk sent for consideration to the Federal Court of the Soviet District a criminal case against a 20-year-old girl and a 19-year-old young man, who staged a pogrom at a Jewish cemetery in October 2007. The prosecutor of the city of Krasnoyarsk approved the indictment under paragraph "a", "b" part 2 of Art.

On May 13, the investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the Tagansky District of the Russian Prosecutor's Office filed charges against the director of the Center named after. Sakharov to Yuri Samodurov under Part 2 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity) in connection with the exhibition “Forbidden Art 2006” held in March 2007. The criminal case was initiated in June 2007. Yu.

In Yekaterinburg, the Old Believer Ryazanovskoye cemetery and the foundations of the Ryazanovskaya hospital were destroyed, the Euro-Asian News news agency reports . According to the regional Ministry of Culture, PSK "Ural-Alliance" began earthworks, during which it desecrated and destroyed a cultural heritage site, without agreeing and without conducting mandatory preliminary archaeological research on the site along Lunacharsky Street between Tveritina and Bolshakov Streets.

On May 11 at 13:00, several young people, sitting on the porch of the Kazan Cathedral, began to dance and shout anti-church slogans into the loudspeaker until they were dispersed by believers who were near the cathedral, Russkaya Line reports .

On April 30, the case of the pogrom at the Jewish cemetery in Krasnoyarsk was sent to the Sovetsky District Court of Krasnoyarsk for consideration. The participants in the pogrom were charged under Part 2 of Art. 244 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (damage to grave structures, committed by a group of persons by prior agreement, motivated by national hatred).