May 27 at the cemetery of the village. Capes within the boundaries of Krasnokamsk, Perm Territory, more than 100 destroyed tombstones were found. told RIA Novosti . "Wooden crosses, granite and marble tombstones have fractures, chips and cracks," the regional police department An investigation is underway. The issue of initiating a criminal case under the article "vandalism" is being considered.

On the night of May 25, at the Smolensk cemetery in St. Petersburg, unknown people left insulting inscriptions on the walls of the Church of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God and the Chapel of St. Xenia the Blessed, poured red paint on a marble angel on one of the tombstones and soiled several more sculptures. This is not the first act of vandalism at the Smolensk cemetery, but no one reported the incident to the police.

Head of Karelia Sergey Katanandov during a meeting of the Board of Trustees for the restoration of the Valaam Monastery in Moscow announced that the program to resettle Valaam residents from monastic buildings to new homes on the mainland would be completed in 2009. "During 2008 and 2009, citizens (residents of Valaam -" IF ") must be relocated completely, and the premises that the monastery needs will be used for their intended purpose," Interfax quotes S. Katanandov .

In mid-May 2008, nationalist leaflets began to appear in the mailboxes of Vladimir residents. It is reported that the authors of the leaflets distributed through the mailboxes of the city "talk about the genocide of the Russian people, and call for clearing the country of the occupiers. Any person of non-Slavic origin is called occupiers .

A cemetery was desecrated in the town of Rybnoye, Ryazan Region. Crosses and tombstones were destroyed on 32 graves. Vandals - young people aged 18 and 22 - were detained. They carried out the pogrom while drunk. The investigation does not consider the nationalist version. Previously, the attackers' actions were qualified as vandalism. Sources Two drunks smashed dozens of monuments and crosses at a cemetery in the Ryazan region // Interfax-religion. 2008. May 28.

The layout of the Order of Parental Glory, shown in one of the TV programs, made in the form of a cross, caused bewilderment among many Muslims. "It is well known that large families in the Russian Federation are mostly Muslim," Islam.ru notes .

On May 26, 2008, the St. Petersburg Prosecutor's Office filed motions against the directors of two schools in the Kirovsky District. The reason for the submissions is that the directors of schools No. 223 and No. 378 did not inform the police about their students, who consider themselves to be Nazi skinheads.

President of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev, in response to an appeal from the chairman of the Russian Islamic Heritage NGO Shavkat-Hadzhi Avyasov, said that the educational component “Spiritual and Moral Culture”, within the framework of which the Russian Orthodox Church proposes to teach “Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture,” will not be introduced in the schools of the republic.

Nikolai Pankov, Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, believes that the Russian army is not yet ready to introduce the post of chaplain. "We studied the experience of world armies, armies where there is an institution of military clergy, and we believe that today there is no" one-time "solution to this issue in our multi-confessional country," told reporters. N. Pankov According to him, the introduction of the institution of chaplains is a very difficult problem, because.

On November 12, 2007, the court of the city of Gus-Khrustalny, Vladimir Region, passed a guilty verdict on Y. Kroshkin. He was found guilty under item "b" part 2 of article 244 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (desecration of the bodies of the dead or their burial places, committed on the basis of national hatred). In April 2006, he destroyed 49 graves in the Muslim section of the city cemetery. Together with him, a 15-year-old schoolboy participated in the pogrom . Yu.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation withdrew from consideration the cassation appeals against the verdict in the case of four members of the Islamic Jamaat. On August 2, 2007, Vilsur Khairullin, Rauf Zinnurov, Said-Mokhmad Dangaev and Lema Atuev were found guilty of committing 11 explosions and attempts to blow up fuel and energy facilities in a number of regions of the Volga region.

On the night of May 28, the Leontief cemetery was desecrated in Yaroslavl. Along the road leading from the main entrance, monuments were broken, crosses were turned upside down, wreaths were scattered. The night before, one of the passers-by saw a group of young people at the cemetery. According to him, they used alcohol and drugs. Sources Pogrom at the Leontief Cemetery // NTM Yaroslavl. 2008. May 28.

Vladimir Ustinov, the presidential envoy to the Southern Federal District, said that representatives of law enforcement agencies stationed in Chechnya should work more closely with the clergy. "I believe that in your work you need to receive the blessing of the Mufti of Chechnya, a representative of Orthodox Christians, work closely with them, consult. In this case, the people will support us even more, and your work will be more successful," V.

Since May 10, the relics of St. Alexander Nevsky. During this time, in Kaluga, Tula, Ryazan, Tambov, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Belgorod, Kursk, Orel and Bryansk, about 135 thousand people bowed to the shrine, according to the Foundation of St. Andrew the First-Called. In many cathedrals where the relics were exhibited, round-the-clock access to them was organized.