Chairman of the Russian Union of Evangelical Christian Baptists (RS ECB) Yuri Sipko appealed to the Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika with a complaint against the actions of the head of the administration of the Istra district of the Moscow region A. Shcherba. At first, the district authorities did not give consent to holding the all-Russian congress of the ECB "Transfiguration", scheduled for July 31 - August 4, in the "Rucheyek" children's camp.

On July 12, in the city of Klintsy, Bryansk region, were detained the presbyter of the local church of Evangelical Christians-Baptists Yevgeny Voronin, the deacon of the same church Vladimir Skovpen, members of the church Kirill Moskalenko, Alexei Pleshakov and US citizen Michael Walker . The police department named the organization of an unsanctioned march as the reason for the detention.

On July 30, the founders of the Center named after. Sakharov announced the decision not to hold any more exhibitions like Forbidden Art . Despite the fact that the date of the court hearing in the criminal case regarding this exhibition has not been determined, its organizers consider themselves losers. “When we organized the “Forbidden Art” exhibition, it was planned that it would be held annually as a monitoring of censorship.

In July, more than 5,000 Orthodox residents of Togliatti signed an appeal to the mayor of the city Anatoly Pushkov with a request to reconsider the decision of the town planning council, which gave permission to build a shopping and entertainment complex in the immediate vicinity of the Transfiguration Cathedral. Parishioners of the cathedral believe that the shopping center, designed for 150 stores, should not be adjacent to the shrine.

On June 25, the Perovskaya inter-district prosecutor's office issued a warning to the pastor of the Novogireevo Church of Evangelical Christian Baptists (EKhB) Petr Sautov about the inadmissibility of carrying out extremist activities. At the same time, the text of the warning does not indicate violations of the law committed by the church. Lawyer Anatoly Pchelintsev, co-chairman of the Slavic Legal Center, sent a letter to Perovsky inter-district prosecutor R.

On July 28, the Arbitration Court of the Lipetsk Region held the first hearing on the suit of the Lipetsk diocese to return to it the church building occupied by the Baptist community. The claim is addressed to the authorities of the region. In the late 1980s, the temple was transferred to the use of the Baptist community, but on April 19, 2007, by order of the regional government, the temple building was transferred to the Orthodox diocese.

In June 2008, the "Appeal of the Public of the Republic of Komi to the Governor and the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation regarding the imposition of the subject "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture" on schools" was distributed. Its authors opposed the mandatory introduction of the defense industry in secondary, vocational and higher educational institutions of the republic.

On August 8, the Bekovsky District Court of the Penza Region ruled that Pyotr Kuznetsov , the former leader of the Penza recluses, was sent for compulsory treatment . “The court came to the conclusion that Kuznetsov’s actions constituted an offense under Part 1 of Article 282 (inciting hatred or enmity) and Part 1 of Article 239 (organization of an association infringing on the personality and rights of citizens) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

At the end of July, by order of the Government of the Russian Federation, the St. Vvedensky Tolga Convent of the Yaroslavl Diocese was transferred to the ownership of all the buildings located on its territory. Previously, all 26 buildings were federally owned.