On May 31, a citizen of Uzbekistan, Muhammadsolikh Abutov, was released from custody. He was imprisoned for almost a year. The Uzbek authorities are demanding his extradition, as M. Abutov is accused of creating in 1998, while serving a term for his religious beliefs, an extremist Muslim organization "Akhli Tavkhid" in a penal colony (according to experts, such an organization does not exist), in which he involved two more prisoners.

The government of the Nizhny Novgorod region plans to allocate 237,000 rubles to provide hot meals for pilgrims during the celebration of the Days of Remembrance of St. Seraphim of Sarov and St. Macarius of Zheltovodsky and Unzhensky. From July 28 to August 2, 2008 in Diveevo and from August 5 to August 7 in the village of Makaryevo, Lyskovsky district. Field kitchens will be installed in the tent camps.

On June 3, 2008, a regular meeting of the Governor's Council for Interaction with National Associations was held at the House for Receiving Official Delegations of the Government of the Saratov Region. At the opening of the meeting, the head of the representation of the Chechen Republic in the Saratov region, the chairman of the board of the local regional public organization "Vainakh" Said-Akhmed Elesov spoke.

The State Duma is preparing amendments to the laws on freedom of conscience and on education, providing for the mandatory teaching of “Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture” in schools. As part of this initiative, the curator of the Orthodox corps of the Nashi movement has already written his own textbook on the defense industry.

On May 30, the Ordzhonikidzevsky District Court of Ufa began an appeal hearing in the case of Said Baiburin. His lawyer was not present. Public defender Flyura Baiburina was also removed from the courtroom. Bailiff Irek Valeev pushed her out of the courtroom, after which he stated that if F. Baiburina “sets off” the incident, witnesses will be brought against her who will confirm that she herself attacked the bailiff. Recall that S.

On the night of June 1, unidentified persons desecrated the graves of three Orthodox priests at the Dema cemetery in Ufa. Crosses were broken on the graves of Archimandrite Moses, Archimandrite Panteleimon and Abbot Sofroniy. The vandals painted one of the tombstones with a felt-tip pen and threw away the sign from it. A criminal case was initiated under Article 244 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (desecration of the bodies of the dead and their burial places).

In May 2008, ten residents of Ufa (nine young men and one girl) beat one young Turkish citizen at the Gorsovet transport stop and stabbed another in the chest. Both victims are students of the Ufa State Aviation Technical University. A few days later, the same group attacked the Vietnamese students of the USATU, this time in the vicinity of the Dom Pechati bus stop, near one of the entertainment centers in Ufa.