The Ufa diocese has issued a statement in connection with the World Friendship Run torch relay. At the beginning of June, the relay race participants should arrive in Bashkortostan.

In May 2008, in the city of Kamensk-Uralsky, Sverdlovsk Region, during the matches of the Sinara football club, a group of young people with their faces covered with gauze bandages shouted slogans: calling for the incitement of hatred and enmity, aimed at humiliating the dignity of persons of Jewish nationality; The chants were in the football fan section at the Sinara stadium.

In the Stavropol Territory, the public organizations "Protest Committee of the City of Stavropol" and "United Front of Protest of the Stavropol Territory" began collecting signatures under the demand to remove Archbishop Feofan (Ashurkov) of Stavropol and Vladikavkaz from the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation. The reason was the construction of an Orthodox gymnasium on the site of the Assumption cemetery.

On May 15, 2008, the Moscow City Court convicted eight defendants in the case of the explosion at the Cherkizovsky market. The court made its decision based on the jury's verdict . The court satisfied the prosecutor's request for a life sentence for the four defendants. Nikolai Korolev, Ilya Tikhomirov, Oleg Kostarev and Sergei Klimuk were sentenced to life imprisonment in a special regime colony.

The head of the property relations complex in Moscow, Vladimir Silkin, told RIA Novosti that the question of using the buildings of the Russian State Humanitarian University on the street. Nikolskaya will be decided after the development of the concept for the development of the adjacent territory. Recall that the Zaikonospassky Monastery claims the premises of the Russian State Humanitarian University .

On May 15, 2008, the Kuntsevsky Court of Moscow began preliminary hearings on the suit filed by the Prosecutor's Office of Ingushetia to shut down the Ingushetia.ru website for distributing extremist materials. The prosecutor's office filed an additional claim - to deprive the site owner of the domain name ingushetiya.ru.

On May 4, 2008, in Nizhny Novgorod, the monument to the victims of fascist bombings at the Bugrovsky cemetery was desecrated. Inscriptions were made on the monument in Gothic script in black and red paint, and a swastika was also drawn. The police are investigating what happened. Sources Vandals desecrated the monument to the victims of the fascist bomb // Rosbalt. 2008. May 6.

On May 15, 2008, in Akhtubinsk (Astrakhan region), a trial began in the case of the Akhtubinsk movement "Towards Godpower", whose members are accused of anti-Semitic propaganda among the local population. Recall that four residents of Akhtubinsk are charged with Part 1 and Part 2 of Art. 282-1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (creation of an extremist community and participation in it), and two of them also paragraph "c" part 2 of Art.

In mid-May 2008, gravestones in the Jewish part of the Maryina Roshcha cemetery were desecrated in the Sovetsky district of Nizhny Novgorod. Among them is the grave of the former chief rabbi of the city, Judah Bershtein. A criminal case has been initiated under Art. 214 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (vandalism). The perpetrators have not yet been found. A few days after this incident, one of the Nizhny Novgorod residents found a mobile phone in the cemetery.

On May 15, 2008, the Bessonovsky Court of the Penza Region convicted 36-year-old Alexander Atyakshev. a fellow villager, an ethnic Armenian , in November 2007 A man was found guilty of beating up and sentenced under paragraph "b" part 2 of article 115 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (intentional infliction of minor bodily harm, committed motivated by national hatred and enmity) to one year of imprisonment (conditionally) with a probationary period of 1 year.

April 23, 2008 Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Moscow City Court considered the cassation complaint of a group of Nazi skinheads ( case Dubrovin, Yunusov, Belin, etc.) to a guilty verdict Meshchansky Court of January 31, 2008.

On May 13, a project for the reconstruction of the former building of the Synod, which will house the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library, was unveiled. The project, in particular, provides for the placement of patriarchal chambers and presidential apartments. They will be located on both sides of the "common presence" hall, where secular and spiritual authorities met before the revolution.

On May 11, 2008, in Tolyatti (Samara region), after a punk concert by the German band Bettie Ford, there was a clash between punks and Nazi skinheads who approached the Gerenator club after the concert. The fight broke out when the punks were boarding the bus. Two neo-Nazi casualties are reported. The Nazi skinheads also chased the punks in cars, and two of them were a bus carrying a Bettie Ford. According to eyewitnesses, the persecutors were detained by the police.

On May 15, a trial began in Akhtubinsk in the case of the movement "Toward God's Power". Four of its participants are charged under Parts 1 and 2 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organization of an extremist community and participation in it), and two of them are also charged under paragraph "c" of Part 2 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity on the grounds of race, nationality, attitude to religion).

On May 14, 2008, in the city of Gorodets (Nizhny Novgorod Region), an attack was made on a private house where natives of Vietnam lived. Late in the evening, masked members of a group of Nazi skinheads, armed with rebar and knives, tried to enter the locked dwelling. One of the natives of Vietnam through the window managed to get onto the roof with a mobile phone and began to call the police. Nazi skinheads tried to knock him down with stones and sticks. However, they later fled the scene.