On July 15, 2008, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a new Concept of Russian Foreign Policy, which states that Russia sees its task in " firmly counteracting manifestations of neo-fascism, any form of racial discrimination, aggressive nationalism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia, attempts to rewrite history and use it to whip up confrontation and revanchism in world politics, to revise the results of World War II .

At the beginning of June 2008, a three-day seminar "on the harmonization of interethnic relations and the prevention of conflicts in society" was held in the suburbs of Yekaterinburg on the basis of the boarding house "Club Shishki".

The Prosecutor's Office of the Novosibirsk Region reported that it "handed representations" to local providers "on eliminating violations of the law with a proposal to block user access to materials posted on ten sites on the Internet" recognized by the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation as extremist." This statement was made on July 15, 2008. during a meeting of law enforcement officers with the heads of provider organizations, held at the regional prosecutor's office.