The Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia sent an appeal to the St. Petersburg prosecutor's office with a request to check two of the groups of the Vkontakte social network in connection with anti-Semitic appeals that appeared in it. According to the FEOR, groups were found on the site posting anti-Semitic materials for free access, including the film "Russia with a knife in the back", included in the Federal List of Extremist Materials (item 101 of the list).

In July, employees of the Ryazan Kremlin Museum-Reserve made an appeal to the country's cultural community in connection with preparations for the eviction of the museum and the transfer of Kremlin monuments to the church. We are talking about the transfer of the Assumption Cathedral (currently in joint use of the diocese and the museum) and part of the Oleg Palace, where the main museum exhibitions are located.

On July 8, 2008, a trial began in Ryazan over two activists of the Ryazan regional branch of the Interregional Public Movement for the National Revival "National-Soviet Way of Rus'" (NDPR), accused under paragraph "c" part 2 of Art. 282 (inciting hatred and enmity committed by an organized group).

On August 18, the Sortavala District Court rejected the complaint of Philip Muskevich, a resident of Valaam Island, who challenged the decision to evict him from the premises of the Red (Voskresensky) Skete. The premises where the Muskevich family lived was transferred to the ownership of the Valaam Monastery. The decision to move out was made in 2006 and confirmed in 2007. The bailiff service intended to evict the family on August 15, but F.

On August 17, in the Kalachevsky district of the Volgograd region, during an evening tour of the floating church "St. Nicholas the Wonderworker," the headman discovered that a strong shift of the barge. It turned out that unknown hooligans unraveled and dropped from the fasteners three of the four ropes holding the temple. The floating church could have been taken out of the bay to the ship's passage of the Volga-Don Canal. Sources The floating temple "St.

in the case of an attack by Nazi skinheads on citizens of Algeria, Cameroon and their Russian acquaintance on June 15, 2008 . In early August 2008, law enforcement agencies in Lipetsk reported that new charges had appeared Recall. Initially, the case was initiated under paragraph "a, d" part 2 of Art.

On August 19, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the verdict of the Supreme Court of Tatarstan on Vilsur Khairullin, Rauf Zinnurov, Said-Mokhmad Dangaev and Lema Atuev, accused of belonging to the Islamic Jamaat organization. The defense and the defendants in the cassation appeal stated about the violations committed during the court session. The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation dismissed the complaint and recognized the verdict as lawful. V. Khairullin, R. Zinnurov, S.

's office filed a lawsuit demanding that the samizdat magazine Velikorossky Host, published by Alexander Chervyakov, be recognized as extremist material In July 2008, the Moscow prosecutor . 282-1 (organization of an extremist community). The magazine became the successor to the magazine "Russian Host" that was closed in 2001 after the pogrom in Yasenevo.

On August 11, 2008, a criminal case had its debut, against a blogger who was overly outspoken against policemen and the officers of the intelligence agencies. In contrast to the famous Savva Terentyev affair , where there was no political implications existed, this time legal action was undertaken against Dmitriy Solovyev, an activist of the "Oborona' ("Defense') movement in the Kemerovskaya Oblast'. The reason for the criminal complaint were five posts on the live journal of D.

On August 19, 2008, the governor of St. Petersburg stated that "In the first half of this year, there has not been a single case of extremist crimes . " This statement demonstrates that the governor has no idea of ​​the situation in the city. Only according to official data from the St. Petersburg prosecutor's office, and only in the first three months of 2008, 16 crimes were registered in the city, in which law enforcement agencies suspect a racist component.

On August 19, 2008, the Supreme Court of the Komi Republic confirmed the sentence against Savva Terentyev, given on July 7 by the Syktyvkar City Court. The blogger from Syktyvkar was condemned for one year of prison with suspension for a statement posted on his live journal addressed against the police, who was as a result acknowledged as an offended social group. The attorneys of Savva Terentyev voiced their intention to turn to the European Court of Human Rights for justice.

On August 19, 2008, the Supreme Court of the Komi Republic confirmed the conviction of Savva Terentyev, handed down on July 7. Let us remind you that a Syktyvkar blogger was sentenced to one year of suspended imprisonment for one statement on LiveJournal addressed to police officers, who as a result were recognized as a victimized social group. On January 11, 2009, Savva Terentyev appealed to the European Court of Human Rights.

On August 18, a trial meeting of the Public Council on Morality in Film and Television took place in Moscow. The council has not been formally formed yet. In February 2008, Chairman of the Federation Council Sergei Mironov came up with a legislative initiative to create it . At a trial meeting, cultural figures, journalists, and clergymen discussed Alexander Melnik's dystopian film Novaya Zemlya.

On August 16, 2008 in Vorkuta (Komi Republic) a criminal case was initiated under Part 1 of Art. 292 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting national hatred) on the fact of the systematic appearance of aggressive neo-Nazi and ethnocentric graffiti appearing on the walls of city buildings. Among the inscriptions were: "Russians are alive", "Russians arm yourself", "We are going" , as well as neo-Nazi graffiti.