On August 14, 2008, the Magistrate's Court of the Soviet District of Samara passed a guilty verdict on two activists of the regional branch of the National Socialist Society, Mikhail Bozhenov (born 1987) and Vladimir Ignatiev (born 1986), accused under Part 1 of Article 280 Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("public calls for the implementation of extremist activities").

In Naberezhnye Chelny, one of the cemeteries is systematically desecrated, Vechernye Chelny reports . Wooden crosses were broken on some graves, metal symbols were twisted into knots by unknown persons. The stars on the monuments of the participants of the Great Patriotic War were also broken off. The tombstones were overturned on the ground, and in some places there were traces of fires. None of the victims has yet contacted the police.

On August 21, 2008, in Moscow, on Narodnogo Opolcheniya Street, near the entrance of building 42, building 2, two young people attacked a 23-year-old citizen of Uzbekistan (according to other information, Tajikistan) Adzulaev (Atzuloev). The man died on the spot from the stab wounds he received. According to eyewitnesses, the attack occurred for no apparent reason. Sources A citizen of Uzbekistan was killed in Moscow // Interfax.Ru. 2008. August 21.

In Kaluga, a hooligan was detained who threw a Molotov cocktail at St. George's Cathedral, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the Kaluga Region Department of Internal Affairs. According to preliminary data, he does not belong to any religious or any extremist organization. According to the detainee, after drinking alcohol, he went to set fire to empty buildings.

In Nazran, unidentified people blew up an improvised explosive device near the house where the imam of the mosque in the village of Maisky Aslan Korokhoev lives, Interfax reports . The explosion occurred on August 21 at about 03:00. An investigation is underway. Recall that this month this is the second attempt on the lives of imams in Nazran. Sources An explosion occurred near the house of the imam in Nazran, no one was injured // Interfax-religion. 2008. August 21.

On August 14, 2008, in the trial of members of the Samara branch of the National Socialist Society, Mikhail Bozhenov and Vladimir Ignatiev, the Samara Sovetsky District Court considered the issue of declaring as extremist a number of materials confiscated from the defendants during the preliminary investigation. As a result, the February 2007 issue of the journal Russkaya Volya (N10) and separately the article "Time of Heroes" published in it were recognized as extremist.

On the night of August 17-18, 2008 in Kaluga, a Molotov cocktail was thrown into one of the windows of St. George's Cathedral. Fortunately, a small fire did not lead to a fire - traces of an arson attempt were discovered only in the morning. A few days later, the suspect in the act of vandalism was arrested. However, he denies the motive of hatred in his actions, referring to the fact that he was drunk and wanted to set fire to an empty building, for which he took the cathedral.

On August 21, 2008, the Stepnovsky District Court of the Stavropol Territory found the head of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Stepnovsky District, Pavel Lagutin, guilty of inciting ethnic hatred using his official position (clause "b" part 2 of Article 282), sentencing him to a year of imprisonment with serving term in the colony settlement. The reason for initiating the case was an incident that took place in the summer of 2006, when, in front of P.

In August 2008, the Kanavinsky District Court issued a warrant for the arrest of four underage Nazi skinheads suspected of hooligan attacks on Vietnamese citizens, extortion, and pressure on victims. Teenagers came to the attention of the investigating authorities much earlier, after they were detained by a police squad while trying to beat the Vietnamese in May 2008. However, until August 2008 they were under house arrest.

On August 13, 2008, the Ukhta Federal City Court passed a guilty verdict on a resident of the city, S. Babikov, who hung out on June 21 during the Sabantuy-2008 holiday a mannequin with an offensive nationalist inscription and a model of an explosive device. The investigation into the case was short-lived - on June 22 it was initiated, and on July 31 the case was brought to court.