Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II, opening the Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, cited statistical data. According to him, the Moscow Patriarchate includes 156 dioceses, in which 196 bishops serve (148 diocesan and 48 vicars). The ROC has 29,141 parishes, 769 monasteries (372 male and 392 female). The total number of clergy is 30,544. Sources Patriarch Alexy II published fresh statistics on the current state of the ROC MP // Portal-Credo.ru. 2008. June 24.

In mid-June 2008, it became known that the body of a homeless man had been found at a school stadium in the Udmurt village of Uva. The cause of death of the 45-year-old victim was an open craniocerebral injury inflicted by a cobblestone. The murder took place on May 28, 2008. Later, 20-year-old Pavel P., suspected of committing this crime, was detained in the Sverdlovsk region.

On June 22, 2008, the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation in Ukhta opened a criminal case under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity) against a young man who hung an insulting mannequin on the square in Ukhta . The suspect was arrested and confessed.

On June 24, 2008, an interregional meeting on the problems of harmonization of national relations, prevention of interethnic conflicts and extremism was opened in the Republican Parliament of Karelia. The two-day meeting was organized by the Ministry of National Policy and Relations with Religious Associations of Karelia together with the regional public association "Commonwealth of Peoples of Karelia".

The prosecutor's office of Asbest of the Sverdlovsk region opened a criminal case under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity) on the fact of distribution of Jehovah's Witnesses magazines Watchtower, Awake and Draw Close to Jehovah. Earlier, a local organization of Jehovah's Witnesses was issued a warning about the inadmissibility of carrying out extremist activities.

On June 24, 2008, it became known that a submission was sent to the Pervomaisky District Court of the city of Kirov about the presence in the video "Video Bulletin of Russian Youth" posted on the forum of a local network owned by VyatKTV LLC, by the user M.

The Chairman of the Central Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Chelyabinsk and Kurgan Regions, Rinat Raev, seized the books of the imam of the Moscow memorial mosque Shamil Alyautdinov from the Muslim community of the village of Argayash to check “for the content of extremist ideas.” The day before, these books were brought by Sh. Alyautdinov himself at the request of the Argayash believers. Let us recall that conflicts have already arisen between R. Raev and local Muslims.

About 50 people held a picket in support of Bishop Diomede (Dzyuban) of Anadyr and Chukotka, who has repeatedly criticized the hierarchy, in front of the entrance to the hall of church councils of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, where the Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church opened. Those gathered held icons, crosses, posters and distributed leaflets to the cathedral participants.