On July 17, 2008, the Russian Interior Ministry for the Volga Federal District reported on the number of nationalist and extremist crimes committed in the district over six months. Center "T" for six months revealed 17 crimes in the district, of which five "are directly related to extremist activity," and four were committed on the basis of ethnic and religious hatred. Since no details have been released, it is not clear which crimes are involved.

On July 16, 2008, the chairman of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Lyudmila Alekseeva, and the executive director of the Movement "For Human Rights" Lev Ponomarev filed statements with the General, Moscow and Taganka prosecutor's offices with a demand to check the criminal case under paragraph "b" part 2 of Art . 282 against Yuri Samodurov and Andrey Erofeev regarding the exhibition "Forbidden Art".

On July 17, 2008, the Orel Zavodskoy District Court acquitted Yevgeny Shilin, editor-in-chief of the Dozor newspaper and leader of the DPNI-Orel, "for lack of corpus delicti." The prosecution filed an appeal against the verdict. Let us recall that the case was initiated in November 2006 under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting ethnic hatred using the media).

If asked what a first measure would be to combat extremism among the population, many an informed observer would answer "education'. In St. Petersburg, parental meetings were held in April and May to discuss the ways to fight youth extremism. On July 11, the St. Petersburg district attorney's office reported that 746 parent meetings were held in April and May in the general education establishments, as well as in vocational schools.

At 11 o'clock, on July 16, 2008, the FSB searched a Jehovah's Witnesses' house of faith in Yekaterinburg, in the Sverdlovsk region. 18 believers who now face criminal charges were detained while preparing for the service, and were denied the use of cell phones so that it was impossible for them to contact their relatives or their lawyers. All biblical literature was confiscated from the church.

In mid-July 2008, the Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor General's Office for St. Petersburg completed the investigation of the criminal case on the nationalist murder of an Uzbek citizen in Repino, which took place in November 2007. The defendants in the case are four young people, two of whom are minors. All suspects are charged with Article 282 (inciting hatred or enmity), and two minors are also charged with Part 2 of Art.

On July 15, the President of the Russian Federation, Dmitriy Medvedev was received at the building of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Smolensk area of Moscow by the heads of diplomatic missions and representations of Russia abroad and within international organizations. It was during this encounter that the President outlined Russia's foreign policy priorities.

On July 16, 2008, in Yekaterinburg, the FSB for the Sverdlovsk Region detained 18 believers in the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses who were preparing a service. Searches were also carried out and religious literature seized. These actions were taken as part of a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 (inciting hatred) against the organization. Representatives of the organization report that the detainees could not use mobile phones and inform relatives and lawyers about their situation.

On July 15, 2008, in Saratov, the decision of the Kirovsky District Court on the recognition of an anti-Semitic leaflet as extremist material came into legal force. The leaflet was found on an information board near house No. 98 on Chapaev Street on April 12, 2007. The title of the leaflet contained the call: "We are strong, we are brave, we are Russians, we are Aryans, we are the children of the Gods. We are their last hope.