On May 3, 2008, unknown vandals desecrated the graves and destroyed the tombstones at the cemetery in the village of Druzhnaya Gorka, Gatchina District, Leningrad Region. Police officers managed to solve this crime, reports "47 news" .

On May 26, 2008, the Sovetsky District Court of Kazan delivered a verdict in a criminal case against activists of the Tatar regional branch of Russian National Unity (TRO RNE). The court found the defendants guilty of the following crimes: Ekaterina Melnikova, a 28-year-old resident of Kazan, was found guilty under Part 1 of Art.

At the beginning of April 2008, an announcement appeared in one of the gymnasiums in St. Petersburg, banning students from wearing paraphernalia and demonstrating signs of belonging to " informal youth associations of an extremist orientation" with reference to the law "On Combating Extremist Activity" . Pupils were forbidden to appear at school with images of weapons, blood, skeletons, skulls, pentagrams, to wear steel chains on their belts, belts and wristlets with rivets and spikes.

On May 22, 2008, the Supreme Court considered a cassation appeal against the verdict against a group of Nazi skinheads who killed an Azerbaijani citizen in December 2005 and beat up AKM activists in March 2006. The verdict was issued by the Tyumen Regional Court in December 2007. The Supreme Court issued a ruling in the case, some of the convicts had their sentences changed. Yevgeny Ataulin, Yevgeny Fateev and underage defendant K.

Researchers at the Institute for Socio-Political Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vyacheslav Lokosov and Yulia Sinelina found out in the course of their research that the proportion of people living the church life to one degree or another is, contrary to popular belief, not 4-6%, but about 30%, - reports Interfax . Scientists use the methodology for determining churching, developed by sociologist Valentina Chesnokova.

The Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of the Republic of Mordovia (SUM RM) responded to the Prosecutor's Office of the Republic on accusations of lack of control over the library fund of local religious organizations (LROs), Islam.ru reports . The DUM RM explains the violation of the law "On countering extremism" by the shortcomings of the authorities themselves.

A rally was held in Kazan against the closure of Tatar-Turkish lyceums in Tatarstan, Islam.ru reports . It was preceded by a meeting attended by parents, students and graduates of lyceums, and professors from Kazan universities spoke. Currently, the prosecutor's office has filed a number of accusations regarding, in particular, the compliance of the curriculum of lyceums in Tatarstan with Russian standards, and concrete measures have already been taken in this regard.

In May 2008, in Samara, the attention of the regional prosecutor's office was attracted by the Antique antique store, whose assortment included coins of the Third Reich. The prosecutor's office issued a presentation to the management of the store. Also, an administrative case was initiated under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (propaganda and public demonstration of Nazi paraphernalia and symbols).

On May 26, 2008, it became known that in Dagestan, the editor-in-chief of the all-Russian independent newspaper "People's Opinion" Nabigula Dzhavatkhanov, who published an article by A.I. Balabekov "Response to the Zionists", found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity, committed by a person using his official position). N.

Courts in Ingushetia and Moscow oblige providers to block access to the website Ingushetia.ru.

On May 26, 2008, the prosecutor of the Pravoberezhny district of Magnitogorsk approved an indictment in a criminal case against a local resident who distributed home-made leaflets with appeals and slogans " inciting hatred on ethnic grounds" . The materials of the criminal case were sent for consideration on the merits to the Pravoberezhny District Court of Magnitogorsk.