In early June 2008, it became known that the central office of the Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Mass Communications, Communications and the Protection of Cultural Heritage (Rossvyazohrankultura) issued a warning for using the media to carry out extremist activities of the editorial office of the Duel newspaper (Moscow) for publication of the article "Strong Man" in No. 13 (562) dated March 25, 2008.

On June 8, 2008, a unification conference of a number of nationalist movements into the Russian National Movement was held in Moscow at the Cosmos Hotel.

On June 9, 2008, in St.

In the State Duma, at the exhibition "Solovki - Russia's Northern Outpost", which opened on June 9, signatures are being collected under a draft letter to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin against commercial construction in Solovki, Interfax reports .

A group of priests of the Russian Orthodox Church appealed to the 2008 Council of Bishops in connection with "attempts to revise the liturgical traditions and moral foundations of Orthodoxy, which threaten the world of the church," Portal-Credo.ru reports . The priests urge "to reveal the sources and indicate personally the leaders of this anti-church movement," by which they mean tendencies towards reforming some liturgical traditions. Here is the text of the appeal in full: Your Holiness!

On the night of June 6, 2008, vandals destroyed more than twenty marble tombstones at the Assumption Cemetery in Chelyabinsk, Komsomolskaya Pravda reports . The police have already opened a criminal case. Representatives of law enforcement agencies do not exclude the possibility that the act of vandalism was committed by teenagers. Sources Alexander Dybin. In Chelyabinsk, 20 graves were destroyed at the Assumption Cemetery // TVNZ. 2008. June 6.

The Kursk Regional Duma has submitted to the State Duma a draft law amending Article 7 of the Federal Law "On Counteracting Extremist Activities," Interfax reports . These amendments suggest the exclusion of the rule concerning the issuance of warnings to these organizations in connection with extremist manifestations in their activities. The explanatory note notes that now, if such a fact is discovered, a warning is issued to a public or religious organization.