On September 30, Archbishop Georgy of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas and Major General Sergei Yudin signed an agreement on cooperation between the Nizhny Novgorod diocese and the command of the 22nd Guards Army. Archbishop George said that the Nizhny Novgorod diocese has been cooperating with the 22nd Army for a long time. He expressed hope that the signing of the agreement would allow interaction to be carried out more systematically.

On October 1, 2008, the Moscow City Court began considering the merits of a criminal case about a series of nationalist attacks and murders by a group of Nazi skinheads (“Ryno’s gang”). At the last court hearing, a representative of the prosecutor's office read out the indictment. The leaders of the group, Artur Ryno and Pavel Skachevsky, fully admitted their guilt in the crimes charged against them.

In September 2008, at least 27 people were injured in racist and neo-Nazi attacks, 5 of whom died (in September 2007, 5 people also died and 19 were injured). Thus, we see a slight increase in the number of victims compared to last year. In addition to Moscow, attacks were recorded in September in Arkhangelsk, Voronezh, Yekaterinburg, Izhevsk, the Kaluga region, Nizhny Novgorod and Samara. It is significant that in St. Petersburg - after the statement of V.

On September 30, 2008, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced at the presentation ceremony for officers appointed to senior command positions in the Grand Kremlin Palace that the main tasks of Russia's security agencies are an intensified fight against extremism and nationalism, as well as the fight against gangs, strengthening borders states. "Currently, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs is working out effective mechanisms for protecting the rights of citizens.

The Prosecutor's Office of the Soviet District of the Republic of Mari El sent to the district court a criminal case against a local resident Alexei Vinogorov, who had committed illegal felling of trees. He cut down trees in the sacred grove of adherents of the Mari traditional religion. A. Vinogorov is charged under article 260 part 3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (illegal logging on an especially large scale).

After a six-year hiatus, the work of the Christian Interfaith Consultative Committee of the CIS and Baltic States (CICCC) is being resumed, Interfax reports .

On October 1, 2008, in Dzerzhinsk (Nizhny Novgorod region), five residents of the city were charged under paragraphs. “g”, “l” part 2 of article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy motivated by national hatred), who attacked a citizen of Tajikistan on September 21, 2008. Let us remember that the case was initiated on September 21, 2008.

The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) published a study on the question of how opposition politics and independent initiatives are failing on the internet in Russia. The research is based on a detailed study of three significant websites over a crucial election period, and argues that in Russia the hopes of 'technological liberation' have not been realised.

In September 2008, not less than 22 people were injured and 5 people died as a result of racially and neo-nazi motivated violence (in September 2007, there were 19 injured and 5 killed). Thus, we observe a slight increase of the number of victims in comparison to the previous year. Beside Moscow, there were attacks reported in Arkhangelsk, Voronezh, Yekaterinburg, Izhevsk, Kaluga region, Nizhny Novgorod and Samara. Notably, in St.

On October 1, 2008, the prosecutor's office of Tobolsk approved the indictment against a 17-year-old student of the Tobolsk School of Arts and Culture. Alyabyev, who wrote calls in the city center and on the cafe building "to commit violent acts against persons of non-Slavic nationality" . The teenager is charged with Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred).

On September 30, 2008, Vladimir Yudin, deputy prosecutor of Moscow, in a letter to the deputy of the Kaliningrad Regional Duma, Solomon Ginzburg, announced a proposal to conduct a prosecutor's check on the distribution of the publication "100 people who changed the course of history. Adolf Hitler." "Your appeal on the fact of distribution of the periodical" 100 people who changed the course of history.