On the night of August 10, 2008, 30-year-old native of Cameroon Etizok Ndobe Ernest was killed in Ulyanovsk. His body was found in the morning near one of the houses on 40 Years of Victory Street. According to investigators, the man was returning home from work (he worked in a nightclub). When he was attacked by a gang of Nazi skinheads. The man was severely beaten and stabbed several times. Soon the attackers were detained . The verdict in the case was handed down in March 2010.

On the night of July 31, in the village of Begunitsy, Leningrad Region, seven Chinese workers were beaten and robbed. At three o'clock in the morning, three attackers broke into the premises of the art school where the workers lived, severely beat them and robbed them of 6,800 rubles, six mobile phones, 18 pairs of shoes, 18 jeans and six jackets. Already in the morning, one of the attackers was detained while trying to sell his share of the loot, and soon his accomplices were also detained.

On August 15, 2008, the prosecutor's office of the Zavolzhsky district of Ulyanovsk applied to the court for the arrest of suspects in the murder of a native of Cameroon, committed on the night of August 10. Several people have already been detained in this case (the exact number is not reported), who, according to investigators, are members of the neo-Nazi skin group Simbirsk white power. All detainees were charged with murder "with aggravating circumstances" (probably committed by a group.

On August 14, the fortune-teller Aizan was killed in Karabulak. She had previously received threatening notes. On the same day in Nazran, an unidentified person fired a pistol at Elza Esmurzayeva, a fortune-teller. The victim with a penetrating wound in the scapula was taken to the hospital. A criminal case has been opened on the fact of attempted murder. Recall that earlier several attempts on healers and fortune-tellers were committed in Dagestan.

On August 12, 2008, in one of the stores in Moscow, a drunken visitor staged a brawl with the use of traumatic weapons. Far-right resources say that Yuri Gorsky, one of the leaders of the Party for the Defense of the Russian Constitution (MANPADS) "Rus", was a brawler. The story about the detention of an unnamed but easily recognizable ultra-right activist in the video was shown in the program "Emergency" on the NTV channel. The drunken visitor reportedly wanted to buy a bottle of vodka.

On August 15, 2008, Rossiyskaya Gazeta published another update of the Federal List of Extremist Materials, which included paragraphs. 152-219 (see about it here ). However, by the time the official list was published in RG, on the website of the Ministry of Justice, the list already included 231 items.

In early August 2008, a case concerning a racist attack on a resident of Voronezh committed in April 2008 was submitted to the court. The defendants, a citizen of Mali and two citizens of Chad, along with two other African students whom the investigation could not identify, took out on a random passerby an insult for the racist insults that they were subjected to a few minutes before (as the indictment says, "feeling hatred for representatives of the European race ).

At the end of July 2008, the Voronezh law enforcement agencies reported the disclosure of an attack on Kazakh citizens studying at the Voronezh Aviation Engineering School (VVVAIU), committed in April 2008. The case was initiated under Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Hooliganism committed by a group of persons by prior agreement or by an organized group”).

"Rossiyskaya Gazeta", speaking about the issue of transferring property to the Russian Orthodox Church, touched upon the situation around the Transfiguration Cathedral in Uglich. In December 2007, the Yaroslavl diocese demanded that the Uglich State Historical, Architectural and Art Museum vacate the cathedral building. According to Rossiyskaya Gazeta , the prosecutor's office conducted an investigation into the diocese's application and considered the eviction demand illegal.

On the night of August 15, a fire broke out in a Pentecostal church in Balakovo, Saratov Region. The fire broke out in an area of ​​3 sq. meters. There are no victims or injured. Among the possible causes of the fire is called arson. Sources In the Saratov region, a Pentecostal church was on fire, one of the versions is arson // Interfax-religion. 2008. 15 August.