We publish the text of the verdict in the case of the murder by the neo -Nazis of the Izhevsk skater Stanislav Korepanov, issued on November 8, 2007. For ethical reasons, the names of witnesses and all the personal data of the defendants were removed from the text of the sentence. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

On August 9, 2008, an anti-Georgian incident took place in Ulan-Ude, which, as it turned out later, was provoked by the anti-Georgian propaganda of Russian television. On this day, the Ulan-Ude cafe "Genatsvale" received a call and was informed that the cafe was mined. Cafe employees say that the caller connected the mining with the start of hostilities in South Ossetia. Police officers, the Ministry of Emergency Situations and doctors left for the scene.

On August 7, 2008, the SM Number One newspaper published an article on the forthcoming opening of the Olympic Games in Beijing. Note that this material is clearly compiled on the basis of materials from other publications. The publication consists of comments taken from coaches, doctors and managers of the Russian Olympic team, in which they spoke about various aspects of adaptation in the Chinese capital.

On August 7, 2008, an article by Yulia Vokhmyanina "Stop, figure it out: How are sectarians treated in Russia and Belarus" was published in the supplement to "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" "Union: Belarus-Russia", the main pathos of which boils down to the need to tighten the religious legislation of Russia, with taking into account the experience of Belarus, which outlawed even meetings of believers in private apartments.

Tobolsk Muslims appealed to the prosecutor's office with a request to prevent the construction of a filling station in the immediate vicinity of an ancient cemetery in the Suzgun area, 5 km from the city. Previously, believers applied to the municipal authorities, but they did not find any violations during the construction.

In the early morning of August 14, 2008, in Nizhny Novgorod, an attack was made on the apartment of Stanislav Dmitrievsky, chairman of the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society, assistant of the Foundation for the Defense of Tolerance. Unknown people broke the window of his apartment with a brick smeared with red paint. On the walls of the house, swastikas and threatening insulting inscriptions were painted in red paint.

Bulletin of the Network for Ethnological Monitoring and Early Warning of Conflicts No. 134 provides data on religious organizations in the Saratov region. As of January 30, 2008, the Office of Rosregistration for the Saratov Region registered 317 religious organizations belonging to 23 confessions (as of 2007 - 305 religious organizations).

At the end of July, the temporary administrator of the Chukotka diocese, Archbishop of Khabarovsk and Amur Region Mark (Tuzhikov), contacted the district police department and the prosecutor's office with a statement to initiate a criminal case against the former head of the Chukotka diocese, Bishop Diomede (Dzyuban), for illegal embezzlement of funds.

On August 10, 2008, the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications and Mass Communications (Rossvyazkomnadzor) (former Rossvyazohrankultura - ed.

President of the Glasnost Defense Foundation Alexei Simonov believes that the Russian Orthodox Church is "absolutely aggressive and intolerant" towards museums. “There is still no need for such a quantity of church property, I just really want to grab as much as possible while they are given, including that which you still cannot either repair, build, or use properly.