On September 3, 2008, in the Sormovsky district of Nizhny Novgorod, a native of Armenia S. Sahakyan was killed. The body of a man with traces of 11 stab wounds was found on Nogina Street. No personal belongings or money were stolen. At the crime scene, investigators found a sheet of paper with an image of a swastika and the inscription, made in black dye on a stencil, “We declare war on you.” According to eyewitnesses, there were two attackers, their faces were half covered with scarves.

On August 1, 2008, the head of the Volotovsky district consumer society in the Novgorod region was fined 35,000 rubles by the Magistrate's Court for hiring a citizen of Uzbekistan and not sending a mandatory notification to the authorities. This offense was revealed, oddly enough, as part of an audit of the implementation of anti-extremist legislation. What is surprising is not that the head of the raypo was fined, but the reporting of this as a revealed fact of violating the law on extremism.

The “2x2” TV channel will not change its programming policy and will not remove the television series “South Park” from the air, reports Lenta.ru . This statement was made by the general director of the TV channel, Roman Sarkisov, on the air of the Ekho Moskvy radio station, commenting on the new appeal to the Prosecutor General’s Office and the UPC of Pentecostal Christians.

About 2 billion rubles will be allocated from the Moscow budget for the restoration of the Church of St. Clement on Pyatnitskaya Street, reports Portal-Credo.ru . “But this money may not be enough for all of this, so we ourselves are raising funds to rebuild the temple. We will buy church utensils, candlesticks, and chandeliers with our own money,” said the rector of the church, Archpriest of the Russian Orthodox Church MP Leonid Kalinin.

On August 21, 2008, the Prosecutor's Office of Karelia approved the indictment in the criminal case against Alexander Chechelnitsky, former head of the Kondopoga police department, under Part 1 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (negligence). The case was sent for consideration on the merits to the Supreme Court of the Republic of Karelia.

On September 3, 2008, the Magistrate's Court of the Kirovsky District of Samara sentenced a 32-year-old resident of the city, Aleksey Slobodenyuk, to a suspended sentence for posting "calls for extremist activity" on several Internet forums. A. Slobodeniuk was sentenced to one year of imprisonment under part 1 of article 280 (carrying out extremist activity) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

. On September 2, 2008, the decision of the Central District Court of Chita dated July 10, 2008 on recognizing the materials of the newspaper Russkoe Zabaikalye as extremist (No.

On September 3, 2008, the head of the Communist Party faction in the Moscow City Duma, Vladimir Lakeev, turned to the Moscow prosecutor with a request to check for compliance with the legislation of renaming Bolshaya Kommunisticheskaya Street into Alexander Solzhenitsyn Street.

On the night of September 3, 2008, in a Muslim prayer house in Furmanovo, Ivanovo region, an intruder broke a window with a stone and built a brick sign "like a swastika" in a flower bed in front of the building. An 18-year-old local resident was detained on suspicion of hooliganism. According to preliminary data, he was in a state of intoxication. Sources In the Ivanovo region, a suspect was detained in hooliganism on the territory of a Muslim prayer house // Interfax-religion. 2008.

On August 5, 2008, the Solombalsky District Court of Arkhangelsk passed a sentence on residents of the city Maxim Golovin, born in 1988. and Konstantin Belov, born in 1990 under Art. 213 part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (hooliganism committed with the use of objects used as weapons by a group of persons by prior agreement, associated with resistance to a person who suppresses a violation of public order) for beating a "Nazi skinhead".

On August 21, 2008, it became known that in Orenburg police officers detained a 23-year-old Nazi skinhead and confiscated an F-1 combat grenade from him. The examination showed that the grenade is combat and suitable for the production of an explosion. The investigation suggests that the detainee was going to use the grenade against "persons of non-European appearance." He was charged under Art.

Four girls who were vacationing at a Muslim summer camp in the Republic of Tatarstan were summoned to the police for questioning, Novye Izvestiya reports . The police justified their actions by suspecting the girls of having links with extremists who were allegedly preparing a series of terrorist attacks. The parents who were present at the interrogations had the impression that databases of persons professing Islam were being formed in the internal affairs bodies.