On October 8, 2008, Boris Andreev, leader of the music group "Position", from Penza, was brought to St. Petersburg, a suspect in the of murder Indian student Singh Nitesh Kumar in September 2006. The suspect was wanted and at the beginning of the week was detained in Moscow. According to some estimates, the musical group, led by Andreev, has an ultra-right orientation. Sources Leader of skinhead music group arrested in murder of Singh Nitesh Kumar // Fontanka.Ru. 2008. October 9.

On October 9, the Court of the Soviet District of the Republic of Mari El delivered a verdict in the case of illegal felling of trees in a sacred grove, RIA Novosti reports . Aleksey Vinogorov, accused of this crime, was sentenced to one year and one month in prison. In addition, the court exacted damages in the amount of 286 thousand 153.5 rubles from him in favor of the state. The convict and his lawyer announced their intention to appeal the verdict.

were charged in Orenburg On October 8, 2008, 5 Nazi skinheads for participating in nationalist beatings of people and filming attacks on video for posting on the Internet. Unfortunately, the qualification of the articles under which the charges were brought is not indicated. The investigation found that during 2006-2007. a group led by Roman Yanin carried out neo-Nazi attacks.

On October 8, Umar-Khazrat Idrisov, Chairman of the Spiritual Board of Muslims of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, addressed the Russian Jews. In his address, he congratulated them on Yom Kippur and expressed hope for cooperation between the Muslim and Jewish communities of Russia.

On October 8, 2008, it became known that in St. Petersburg, the case of the terrorist attack at the Rocks Club was sent to court. Alexander Voronov, Alexander Isaev and Taras Muzalev, detained in the case, are charged under Part 2 of Art. 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (hooliganism committed by a group of persons by prior agreement), part 2 of Art.

Dear colleagues, We have got messages from our readers, that some of them don't receive our news releases anymore, or receive it with a several days delay. The same problem appears with our e-mails sent from or received to the SOVA addresses ( mail@sova-center.ru and the others). Unfortunately, we haven't been able yet to detect the reason of the technical problem, and consequently we cannot fix it.

On September 21 or 22, 2008, a group of at least 10 Nazi skinheads entered the car on the Savelovsky direction near Moscow on the Mark - Novodachnaya - Dolgoprudnaya section and began to beat passengers. Most of the people who were present at the same time in the car hurried to move to the next one. After a stop, the victims ran out of the train, and the neo-Nazis chased them. After that, one of the eyewitnesses of the incident tried to call the local people's squad by phone.

On October 1 and 3, 2008, Rossiyskaya Gazeta published updates on the Federal List of Extremist Materials as of September 11 and 30, respectively. NN256-257 and NN258-267 have been published, respectively. Thus, after a rather significant lag, the officially published list finally began to correspond to that maintained by the Ministry of Justice. However, it still does not include all prohibited items.

On October 8, 2008, the Investigative Committee of the Prosecutor's Office (SKP) of the Russian Federation announced that since the beginning of 2008, 380 "extremist" crimes have been registered in Russia , of which 322 crimes have already been solved. The prosecutor's office reported that compared to the same period in 2007, the number of registered extremist crimes more than doubled (by 109%).

The deputy commander of one of the military units in the city of Vladimir turned to the mosque for help. He was concerned about conflicts between soldiers arising on national and religious grounds, and cases of disobedience to orders. Imam-khatib of the Cathedral Mosque Rinat Ibragimov, who responded to the request of the officer, gave a lecture to the soldiers on the topic of statutory relations in the army.

On October 8, 2008, the Kargopolsky District Court of the Arkhangelsk Region convicted a young man in a case of threatening to kill a native of Dagestan. Yuri Gamov, born in 1990, was found guilty under Part 2 of Art. 119 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (threat to kill, if there were grounds to fear the implementation of this threat, committed on the grounds of national hatred).