In Krasnodar, the confrontation between the city authorities and the parishioners of the missionary Orthodox center located in the historical quarter, where it is planned to build a skyscraper hotel, has escalated, Interfax reports . If construction begins, believers threaten to lie under excavators.

In the fall of 2008, Nashi activists will begin teaching "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture" in schools based on a textbook written by Boris Yakemenko, curator of the organization's Orthodox corps, member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, Interfax reports . Participants in the movement plan to cover schools in ten cities, including Moscow.

On May 22, 2008, the Information and Analytical Center "SOVA" presented the report "Hate Speech and Elections: Federal and Regional Levels. Based on the Monitoring Materials of Autumn 2007". It is the result of another, already the seventh, study within the framework of the Hate Speech in the Russian Media coalition project, which has existed since 2001 and is dedicated to the problem of ethno-religious intolerance in the Russian mass media.

On May 21, 2008, unknown persons attacked a 16-year-old teenager from the Caucasus in Moscow. A 10th grade student of one of the Moscow schools was stabbed in the left collarbone. The boy was hospitalized. The police do not rule out that the attack could have occurred on ethnic grounds. Sources Schoolboy stabbed in capital // Rosbalt.Ru. 2008. May 22. *

On May 21, 2008, in Moscow, a group of about 10 young people burst into the Molly Gvins bar on Novy Arbat and began to bully five foreign Manchester United fans, shouting "nationalist slogans " . Foreign fans retreated to the other side of the hall, continuing to defend themselves. Some of the witnesses of the conflict called the police. The attacking young people fled after hearing police sirens. Two English casualties are reported.

The prosecutor's office of the Romodanovsky district of the Republic of Mordovia, during joint inspections of religious organizations of Muslims in the village of Belozerye with the FSB, Organized Crime Control Department and the Federal Registration Service, found in the organizations "Al-Rajab", "Tauba" and "Shaban" among publicly available religious literature books included in the Federal List of Extremist Materials - Rosbalt reports.

The Ministry of Education of the Rostov region has reached an agreement with the local diocese on the introduction of the course "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture" in all schools in the region, Interfax reports . "Within four or five years, we must introduce this subject in all schools, but we will not force anyone," said regional education minister Igor Guskov.

In Kazan, criminal cases have been initiated and a number of searches have been carried out in the 1000th Anniversary of Islam Madrasah in order to find "terrorist" literature, Islam.ru reports . A search was also carried out in the apartment of one of the leading teachers of the madrasah, Rustem Safin. A criminal case has been initiated against him. Now he is under bail. Against D. Amirova, the wife of one of the Muslims whose apartments were searched, a criminal case was initiated under Art.