On August 31, a rally was held in Omsk against cutting down trees in the square of the Siberian Research Institute of Agriculture for the construction of an Armenian church. On August 21, Salavatsteklo LLC cut down trees of especially valuable species, including white willow 70-80 years old, fir and elm. The protesters do not object to the construction of the Armenian church in principle, but they do not agree with the choice of the site for the construction.

The Volgograd diocese and the regional education committee signed a cooperation agreement. The Committee undertakes to create conditions for the introduction in schools of the field "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture" (subject to the principle of voluntariness). The Volgograd diocese will involve teachers of Orthodox culture, participate in the examination of educational and methodological aids, and help complete school libraries.

At the end of August 2008, a second criminal case was initiated in Tomsk, connected with the posting of neo-Nazi videos on the Internet. Videos of a xenophobic and neo-Nazi nature began to appear on Tomsk regional websites in August 2008 and immediately attracted the attention of the prosecutor's office.

There are more than a hundred educational institutions under the auspices of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (FEOR). In the coming academic year, more than 14,000 people will study there. The FEOR network of educational institutions includes five universities (including the Moscow "University of the XXI century" (82 young men from Russia, the CIS, Israel), the women's institute "Mahon Hamesh" (100 girls), the yeshiva "Tomhei Tmimim" (60 boys), institutes in St.

Deputy Chairman of the Council of Muftis of Russia, Rector of the Moscow Islamic University Marat Murtazin opposed the inclusion of the educational field “Spiritual and moral culture” proposed by the Russian Orthodox Church in the school standard. “The concept of introducing this area, presented by the Russian Orthodox Church, again imposes the division of children on religious grounds when studying spiritual and moral subjects,” Interfax quotes M.

In Nizhny Novgorod, a guilty verdict was handed down to an 18-year-old technical school student who broke 19 tombstones in the Jewish part of the Red Etna cemetery from May 8 to June 9. He was found guilty under paragraph 6 of Part 2 of Art. 244 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (violation of the burials of the dead on the basis of nationality) and was sentenced to 2.5 years of suspended imprisonment. Two more people were detained along with him.

On September 2, 2008, a trial began in the Leninsky District Court of Novosibirsk on charges of a former police officer for posting anti-Semitic and extremist publications on the Internet. First, in 2007, one of the city residents found at a bus stop ethnocentric and xenophobic leaflets with a swastika (probably not the “classic” Nazi swastika, but a multi-armed one, readily used by neo-pagans), which suggested visiting a certain website.

On August 25, 2008, the Judicial Collegium for Civil Cases of the Samara Regional Court satisfied the lawyer's cassation appeal against recognizing the site "Islam as it is" as extremist for publishing a brochure about the Navruz holiday and returned the case for reconsideration to the court of first instance in a new composition.