On August 11, a group of unknown persons destroyed two Jewish cemeteries in Makhachkala. Then only 12 graves were damaged, but when the members of the community returned the next day, they found that more than 80 tombstones had already been destroyed, "Jewish.ru" reports . "We have counted the destroyed monuments only in the new cemetery, and we still don't know how many graves were desecrated in the other one," said Sh. Dibiyaev, chairman of the Jewish community.

On August 11, 2008, another criminal case was initiated against a blogger who spoke out sharply against policemen and intelligence officers. In contrast to the famous case of Savva Terentyev , in which there was no political subtext, this time an attempt was made to prosecute Dmitry Solovyov, an activist of the Defense movement from the Kemerovo region. The reason for initiating a criminal case was five posts in D.

Edited by Alexander Verkhovsky Wе publish our seasonal report on radical nationalism and counteraction to it in spring 2008. As usual, the report is based on the results of the SOVA Center daily monitoring.

The director of the newspaper “The Spirit of a Christian” (published with the blessing of the former Bishop of Chukotka Diomede, whom the Church recently decided to defrock ) Galina Simonova used physical force against the temporary administrator of the Chukotka diocese, Archbishop Mark of Khabarovsk and Amur, reports Interfax . The incident occurred during an attempt to unauthorizedly remove a certain container from the territory of the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord in Anadyr.

On the night of August 17-18, unknown people threw a Molotov cocktail into one of the windows of St. George's Cathedral in Kaluga, Blagovest-info reports . Archpriest Nikolai Kazakov, the church's viceroy, said that at about one in the morning the duty officer heard a noise, but when walking around the territory, he did not notice anything, because he walked around the church only from three sides.