On July 4, 2008, it was adopted by the State Duma and approved by the Federation Council, and on July 23, President Dmitry Medvedev signed the Federal Law "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation in Connection with Improving the Implementation of the Powers of the Government of the Russian Federation." In an interview with NG-Religion, Andrei Sebentsov, executive secretary of the Commission on Religious Associations under the Government of the Russian Federation,

From April to August 2008, the press service of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Republic of Tatarstan (DUM RT) monitored Muslim parishes. According to the results of the study, as of August 10, 2008, the total number of mosques in the republic was 1348, of which 1186 were registered. 523 mosques hold Sunday classes. In addition, there are 42 primary madrassas in the republic. See also data on Muslim religious organizations in the Volga Federal District.

On August 19, 2008, the Leninsky District Court of Novosibirsk recognized a number of materials from the newspaper Lyubimy Novosibirsk as extremist. In the first half of 2008, these articles served as the basis for issuing one anti-extremist warning from Rossvyazkomnadzor to the newspaper . In total, six newspaper articles were recognized as extremist: The article "The Prophecy of the Great Elder", published in No. 21 of October 2006 Article "The Book of Veles", published in No.

On the night of August 16, unidentified people broke windows in the building of the Nizhny Novgorod synagogue. quoted the website of the local religious community "Installed windows were inserted in all the windows. Moreover, in the security booth, the double-glazed windows were pierced through, which requires very serious efforts. In the task of the synagogue, only the outer windows were broken, " Interfax . An investigation into the incident has begun.

In Ulyanovsk, on the night of August 9-10, 2008, when was killed a black resident of the city , there were several more attacks. According to various sources, three or four more people were injured. As Igor Kornilov, head of the Ulyanovsk organization Legal Fund, told our center, at least two of the wounded, employees of Ulyanovsk NGOs, became targets of attack precisely because of neo-Nazi motives (later, in 2010, this episode became one of the episodes of the verdict ) .

On the night of August 16, 2008, an attack was made on the Nizhny Novgorod synagogue. The outer windows of the synagogue building were broken, and the double-glazed windows were pierced through in the security booth, which requires serious physical effort. The law enforcement agencies of the city are investigating the fact of the attack, and no criminal case has been opened yet.

On August 18, the department for the protection of rights and the fight against anti-Semitism of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (FEOR) sent a letter to the company supporting the work of the Orthodox Rus website with evidence of the anti-Semitic nature of the site and a request to close it. The Russian prosecutor's office cannot intervene in the situation, since the site is registered in the United States. FEOR expects the hosting provider to close the site itself.

In August 2008, against the backdrop of the events in South Ossetia, the propaganda work of the Movement against Illegal Immigration intensified, which, like the year before, tried to create a favorable information background for itself. It is significant that part of the Russian media simply broadcasts DPNI information without assessing either its quality (the information) or the legality of the actions of far-right activists.