On May 19, a rally was held in Makhachkala in defense of a charitable hospital for women. The hospital operated a psychological rehabilitation service, courses for nurses and nurses, classes in Islam, Arabic and English. On April 29, the Arbitration Court of Dagestan satisfied the claim of the Ministry of Property and Land Relations of the republic and ordered the hospital to vacate the premises it occupied. Several inspections were carried out at the hospital in May.

On May 20, 2008, two suspects were detained in Moscow in connection with the murder of two citizens of Uzbekistan on May 6. The detained young people are a 19-year-old bookstore sales assistant and a 16-year-old student of one of the Moscow schools. The police say that the detainees "have already been exposed that, out of hooligan motives, they inflicted multiple stab wounds to the chest and neck of citizens of Uzbekistan with kitchen knives .

The author of the encyclopedia "Islam in Modern Russia" Roman Silantiev published data on registered Muslim communities as of 2007. "In total, 3,600 Islamic communities are registered in Russia. The largest Muslim center in terms of the number of communities is the Coordinating Center for Muslims of the North Caucasus - it includes more than 1,000 registered communities," he said on May 21 during a press conference in Interfax .

On May 17, St. Petersburg Governor Valentina Matviyenko inspected the restoration of cultural and historical heritage sites. Among other objects, she visited the Trinity Cathedral, which was damaged by fire in 2006. According to the governor, restoration work there is going too slowly: workers begin construction only after the end of the service - from 13:00. "Kommersant" reports the details of the visit: "This is a disgrace," Mrs.

On May 1, 2008 in Kaliningrad, at the opening of the biker season at the House of Soviets, the Metal Corrosion group performed. According to some viewers, one of the songs performed called "Niger" is "a direct insult and a call to kill people with dark skin color" . According to eyewitnesses, nationalist cries were heard at the concert every now and then. Recall that due to nationalist propaganda in the texts of the Metal Corrosion group, its concert was already canceled in Ufa in June 2007.

On the night of May 10, 2008, a dark-skinned man, 29-year-old lawyer of the Kaliningrad Regional Duma Alexander Burger-Gasanov, was severely beaten near his house in Kaliningrad. Two unknown young people beat him with their feet and a baseball bat, and four more young people encouraged them with shouts "achieve Niger! There is nothing black for the day of victory on the streets!" . The injured man was able to get home on his own.

On May 10, CNL broadcast a sermon by the senior pastor of the New Testament Pentecostal community in Perm, Eduard Grabovenko. During the sermon, the pastor made offensive remarks towards Muslims. The website of the Perm diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church quotes from this sermon: “Imagine, God, even in such a situation, I am generally surprised, came to Hagar ... and said: “Hagar, I will not leave you. And from your son a great nation will come, but the discrepancy will remain.

On April 8 and 9, 2008, the prosecutor's office of the Romodanovsky district of Saransk, together with the Federal Security Service, the Organized Crime Control Department and the Federal Federal Registration Service, conducted a number of inspections of religious organizations of Muslims in the village of Belozerye on behalf of the prosecutor's office of the Republic of Mordovia, during which, according to the prosecutor's office, "violations of the law on freedom of conscience, religious

On May 20, 2008, the Prosecutor's Office of the Trans-Baikal Territory sent an application to the Central District Court of Chita for the establishment of signs of extremism in the materials of the newspaper Russkoe Zabaikalye (No. 2 of February 22, 2008). The statement of the Prosecutor's Office was based on the results of linguistic and psychological examinations of the newspaper, conducted at the end of March 2008.

On April 14, 2008, in the city of Gorodets (Nizhny Novgorod region), four Nazi skinheads armed with metal rods attacked several Vietnamese citizens. The attack was filmed on a video camera. Fortunately, the Vietnamese did not have time to suffer much, as a police squad drove past, which detained the attackers.

On May 21, 2008, the exhibition "White Rose" - student resistance to the Hitler regime. Munich, 1942-43 - opened in Moscow at the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War. The exhibition is dedicated to the Munich anti-fascist student movement "White Rose" and its leader Alexander Schmorell, a native of Orenburg. The exhibition was prepared by the Munich White Rose Foundation and the Orenburg Eurasia Charitable Foundation.