On June 9, 2008, suspects of desecrating Jewish graves at the Krasnaya Etna cemetery in May and June 2008 were detained in Nizhny Novgorod. An 18-year-old young man, two 14-year-old teenagers and a 17-year-old girl were detained. According to the testimonies of the rest of the detainees, the pogroms at the cemetery were committed by an older young man, and the rest were only witnesses to his actions and did not try to stop him.

By decree of the head of Kalmykia, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the birthday of Buddha Shakyamuni, celebrated on June 18, was declared a non-working holiday in the republic, Interfax reports . According to K. Ilyumzhinov, this was done "in order to further develop the spiritual traditions of the Kalmyk people." Sources Buddha's birthday declared a public holiday in Kalmykia // Interfax-religion. 2008. June 10.

On June 8, 2008, Jewish graves at the Krasnaya Etna cemetery were again desecrated in the Leninsky district of Nizhny Novgorod. 6 tombstones were damaged. in the same cemetery It should be reminded that on May 28, 13 desecrated Jewish graves were found . This became known from the news about the arrest of four suspects of desecration. One of the detainees confessed that between May 25 and June 8 he "repeatedly came to the cemetery, damaging 5-6 tombstones each time" .

On June 10, 2008, the Prosecutor's Office of the city of Asbest, Sverdlovsk Region, filed a lawsuit in court to recognize as extremist materials magazines, books, and brochures that were distributed in Asbest by the religious organization Jehovah's Witnesses.

There are 761 Sunday schools in the Moscow region. These educational institutions are attended by 16,673 people, Komsomolskaya Pravda reports . In total, religious teaching in the Moscow diocese is conducted in 1,289 educational and other institutions. That is, 61,000 people are covered. During the summer, parishes and monasteries organize over 70 Orthodox camps for 2,500 children and adolescents. In recent years, 253 churches and 162 chapels have been built in the Moscow diocese.

Clairvoyants, psychics and healers of Chechnya will be warned within a week that from now on they are under the control of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SDM) of the republic, reports Rosbalt-Yug . This was stated by the first deputy mufti of the Chechen Republic, Khamzat Khirakhmatov, at a scheduled meeting of qadis in the Muslim Spiritual Directorate.

On June 10, 2008, the Samara Regional Court upheld the sentence of Tatyana Guzayeva, convicted under Part 1 of Art. 282 (inciting national hatred) for posting nationalist leaflets. Recall that Tatyana Guzaeva was found guilty and sentenced to a fine of 100 thousand rubles. The verdict came into force. The convict intends to appeal against it in the supervisory procedure. Sources Dmitry Doroshenko. The verdict to the former editor-in-chief of MK in Togliatti came into force // 63.Ru. 2008.

On June 9, in the Butyrsky District Court of Moscow, during a preliminary hearing in the case of Alexander Chervyakov, a distributor of nationalist books, a ruling was issued to return the case to the Butyrsky prosecutor's office to clarify the indictment. In turn, the Butyrskaya prosecutor's office appealed against this decision in the Moscow City Court in July 2008, but, unfortunately, we do not know the results of this trial. Based on materials from right-wing radical sites

On June 10, the texts of telegrams that the Union plans to send to the Council of Bishops, which will be held from June 24 to June 29, 2008, were published on the official website of the Russian National Union (RONS). RONS members intend to speak out in support of Bishop Diomede , as well as against “ecumenical contacts” and globalization.

On June 9, 2008, in the Leningradsky district of Kaliningrad, three suspects were detained in an attack on 29-year-old lawyer of the Kaliningrad Regional Duma Alexander Burger-Gasanov. The detained Kaliningraders are from 20 to 23 years old. They gave confessions. In addition to Art. 213 (hooliganism) for beating a man, they are "charged with another petty hooliganism committed in the Leningrad region .

At the end of 2007-2008, a series of overview reports "Anti-Semitism, xenophobia and the rights of national minorities in Ukraine" were published on the website of the Congress of National Communities of Ukraine (monthly reports for July , August , October and November 2007, April 2008, as well as reports for the first quarter of 2008, and a special overview report on the situation in Crimea.

Russia's first Orthodox TV channel Soyuz has received a cable broadcasting license from Rossvyazokhrankultura in 126 settlements in 47 regions of the country, Interfax reports . The TV channel was established by the Yekaterinburg diocese in January 2005. During this time, he began broadcasting in the networks of about 300 cable operators in Russia and abroad, as well as on the air in 12 cities of the Urals.