In Veliky Novgorod, the Church of St. Theodore Stratilates of the 14th century. On the altar part, unknown people made the inscription "Old town saints" in black paint - the name of one of the local rap groups. The temple is an architectural monument of federal significance. According to RIA Novosti , "over the past year, unidentified vandals have painted the building of the Novgorod noble assembly on Sofiyskaya Square, which now houses the Museum of Fine Arts, the monument to St.

territories of their countries The Presidents of Russia and Kazakhstan reaffirmed their determination to stop "any form of discrimination, as well as the activities of individuals aimed at inciting ethnic hatred and incitement to violence against citizens because of their nationality" in the . This is stated in the joint statement of the heads of the Russian Federation and Kazakhstan, Dmitry Medvedev and Nursultan Nazarbayev, signed on May 22, 2008 in Astana.

On April 25, 2008, the Judicial Board of the Sverdlovsk Regional Court approved the guilty verdict under Part 1 of Art. 282.1 (organization of an extremist community) and Part 1 of Art. 280 (public calls for extremist activity) of the Criminal Code in relation to the lawyer of the Sverdlovsk Regional Bar Association, the leader of the local branch of the People's National Party (PNP) Sergei Kotov.

On May 22, an agreement on cooperation was signed between the Main Department of Internal Affairs of the Voronezh Region and the local diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. The contract is for three years. The agreement provides for the participation of the clergy in the work on the spiritual and psychological rehabilitation of employees of the internal affairs bodies who worked in extreme conditions, the holding of joint charitable and cultural events.

In the military unit of the Air Force, located in the village. Bright Omsk region, Orthodox prayers are regularly held. At the same time, Muslim soldiers are also sprinkled with holy water, without asking their consent. The Muslim paratroopers appealed to the imam of the Khair-Ikhsan mosque, Zakir Sharypov, with a request to take measures so that adherents of Islam from among the military personnel could not be present during Orthodox rites.

At the end of March 2008, Yury Oleinikov, a member of the right-wing radical neo-pagan movement "Spiritual and Tribal Power "Rus", accused under part 1 of article 282, part 3 of article 30, part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, was sent from the Ryazan region to Moscow to the VP Serbsky State Scientific Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry for the production of a forensic psychiatric examination.

On May 16, 2008, the department of public morality and intellectual property of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Tyumen Region, at the request of the Federal Registration Service, began checking the LGBT organization "Rainbow House" for extremism. On May 22, 2008, the president of the Rainbow House, Alexander Zhdanov, was summoned to the police department to testify.

On May 22, the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee for the Tagansky District of Moscow brought charges against the curator of the exhibition “Forbidden Art 2006” Andrei Erofeev, head of the department of newest trends at the Tretyakov Gallery. He is accused under paragraph "b" of Part 2 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity using one's official position). A.

The newspaper "Orthodox Moscow" published a fragment of the diaries of Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin "Patches", where the priest talks about missionary work. In his opinion, the widespread practice of "confessional anonymity" contradicts the law "On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations", which requires religious organizations to indicate their full names when carrying out religious activities.

On May 23, 2008, the Assembly of the Peoples of the Moscow Region opened in Moscow.

On May 23, 2008, the Odintsovo City Court of the Moscow Region issued a guilty verdict under paragraph "a" of Part 3 of Art. 111 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (deliberate infliction of grievous bodily harm, dangerous to human life, committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy based on national hatred and enmity) to Roman Timeshkov (according to other sources - Tereshkov, nickname "Shield"), Anton Petryakov (1989 b.), Valery Belin (nickname "Sword"), Ilya Lyachin (b.

In mid-May 2008, in the Leningrad region, not far from Lake Barskoye (Sinyavin Heights), a camp of "black pathfinders" was discovered in the forest. (Several young people were illegally "excavating" looking for weapons and ammunition). A flag with a fascist swastika hung in the center of the camp. A flash card containing the band's photo archive was also found. In the pictures, young people in camouflage throw up their hands in a fascist salute.

May 14-15, 2008 in Yekaterinburg, the Administration of the Sverdlovsk Region and the Center for Interethnic Cooperation held an interregional seminar "Harmonization of interethnic relations and prevention of interethnic conflicts". Representatives of authorities, law enforcement agencies and national associations of the Udmurt and Tatar Republics, Perm Territory, Chelyabinsk, Omsk and Sverdlovsk regions took part in the work.

On May 21, the plenipotentiary representative of the Coordination Center for Muslims of the North Caucasus in Moscow, Shafig Pshikhachev, speaking at a press conference in Moscow, proposed creating a unified Council of Muslims of Russia, uniting representatives of religious structures, intellectuals and the business community. “Unfortunately, today the Islamic intelligentsia is not involved.

Vice-Governor of the Moscow Region Alexei Panteleev, speaking on May 23 at the First Assembly of the Peoples of the Moscow Region, said that in 12 municipalities, local authorities refused to representatives of Orthodox communities in the construction of churches and chapels in cemeteries. "I think it's a lack of elementary culture.