On July 3, 2008, in Voronezh, the Youth Human Rights Group and the Youth Network Against Racism and Intolerance launched the "Parcel for the Mayor" action, the purpose of which is to remove symbols of hostility from the streets of the city - various neo-Nazi signs and inscriptions.

At the beginning of June 2008, in Tomsk, a criminal investigation was completed under part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of hatred or enmity) against an electrician of one of the Tomsk firms, who distributed nationalist videos on the Internet.

Umar Idrisov, head of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, considers it necessary to create a state body for religious affairs in Russia, Interfax reports . "We need a single state body that would regulate state-confessional relations, otherwise one of the confessions today has achieved practically state status and enjoys all the preferences, while the rest are in the status of secondary ones," he said. U.

In June 2008, the Council of Elders of the Balkar people appealed to the European Court of Human Rights with a demand to recognize as unlawful and unfounded the warning issued by the KBR prosecutor to the head of the organization Ismail Sabanchiev on July 12, 2007, and a number of other court decisions. Recall that the trial in the case of closing the SSBN for extremism has been going on for several months and the decisions taken by various courts are extremely controversial. Inc. inf.

Two cemeteries in St. Petersburg - Mitrofanyevskoye and Finskoye - have come under the threat of office and residential development, Portal-Credo.ru reports . The site between Moskovsky Prospekt, Blagodatnaya Street, Obvodny Canal and the Baltic Line of the Oktyabrskaya Railway with an area of ​​425 hectares was handed over by the city administration under the leadership of Valentina Matvienko to Izmailovskaya Perspective OJSC and put up for auction.

On July 4, 2008, the debate of the parties in the case of blogger Savva Terentyev ended in the Syktyvkar Federal Court. The prosecution asked that Terentyev be found completely guilty and sentenced to one and a half years in prison on probation. The defendant's lawyers asked to be found not guilty, since "There is no direct evidence of inciting social discord in the case file" .

In early June 2008, in the city of Kineshma (Ivanovo region), members of the Jewish community found an anti-Semitic inscription on one of the streets. On the wall of one of the houses appeared an inscription about the governor of the Ivanovo region, Mikhail Men: "Men Zhid" . Next to the inscription was drawn something between a swastika and a Celtic cross. Sources Anti-Semitism in Kineshma // Jewish News Agency.Ru. 2008. July 2.

*We publish the verdict of the Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Ryazan dated August 15, 2007 against the leaders of the RNU RNE Boris Parshin and Oleg Panfilov, who were found guilty under paragraph "c" of Part 2 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting national hatred committed by an organized group). The publication is not official.

In early June 2008, the Vecherka weekly, published in Chita, published an editorial commentary on the court verdict in the case of the Kharagun pogrom of 2006 (we recall that as a result of the actions of the rioters, 1 person died, 11 more were beaten, 17 cars were burned and 8 were looted houses; for more details on the verdict , see the section "Opposition to Radical Nationalism").

Representatives of the Orthodox Church sent an appeal to the Prime Minister of the Government of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, reports Obshaya Gazeta . In this document, they spoke out sharply against the popular show of Ksenia Sobchak "Blonde in Chocolate" on the Muz-TV channel. In her show, the TV presenter reads obscene poems about herself on the air or takes a bath in front of viewers. Priests are especially concerned about the fact that this program has a high rating.

On the night of June 30 to July 1, in the Ketovsky district of the Kurgan region, unidentified persons damaged 23 marble tombstones and broke 14 wooden crosses on the graves, Interfax reports , citing the press service of the prosecutor's office of the Kurgan region. A suspect is currently being identified. The investigation is under the special control of the prosecutor of the Kurgan region. A criminal case has been opened on the fact of desecration.

On June 26, 2008, the Prosecutor's Office of the Trans-Baikal Territory published a press release "The legal assessment of the riots in the village of Kharagun is based on criminal law", in which it called on the regional media to take a responsible approach to covering events related to the problems of interethnic relations.