In the city of Liski, Voronezh region, a mass grave was desecrated, where more than 500 fallen in the Great Patriotic War were buried. The vandals moved and split the tombstones, smashed the lantern, and tore off the cross from the font at a nearby spring. Two young men aged 17 and 18 were detained on suspicion of committing a crime. One of them called himself a believer, and called jealousy for the girl the reason for the trick. A criminal case under part 2 was initiated. Art.

On October 15, 2008, the SOVA Information and Analytical Center held a press conference Xenophobia in Russia: a view from inside and outside , which presented the results of research in the field of aggressive xenophobia and racist violence, hate speech in the media, as well as some results of the annual conference OSCE on the "human dimension".

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation intends to initiate the liquidation of 56 previously registered religious organizations. The Ministry of Justice plans to go to court with claims against these organizations. The reason is "the long-term failure to provide the Ministry of Justice with the list of information and documents prescribed by law." The list includes Christian, Muslim, Jewish and Buddhist organizations.

In Ufa, members of the Hizb ut-Tahrir cell were found guilty under part 1 of Article 282.2 (organization of the activities of a public or religious association or other organization, in respect of which the court has adopted a decision that has entered into legal force to liquidate or ban activities in connection with the implementation of extremist activity) and Part 2 of Article 282.2 (participation in the activities of a public or religious association or other organization in respect of

On October 1, 2008, in Khabarovsk, near the Musical Comedy Theater, two people were distributing nationalist leaflets. This became known from the news about the initiation of a criminal case against the detainees. Sources Distributors of leaflets with extremist content arrested in Khabarovsk // REGIONS.Ru. 2008. October 16.

In the Moscow microdistrict of Belyaevo, a conflict arose over the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord on the street. Innovators. Registered in 2005, the parish seeks to transfer to the Russian Orthodox Church the building of the temple, previously occupied by a music school. The prefecture of the Obruchevsky district refused the believers, intending to build some other object on this site - according to various sources, either a playground, or a parking lot.

On October 3, 2008, the Khabarovsk prosecutor's office opened a criminal case against two Muscovites who, on October 1, 2008, distributed nationalist leaflets in the city. The criminal case was initiated under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity). The suspects have been arrested. Sources Distributors of leaflets with extremist content arrested in Khabarovsk // REGIONS.Ru. 2008. October 16.

In Novosibirsk, a lawsuit is underway on the case of the liquidation of the Otchizna newspaper. On October 15, 2008, a regular court session was held. Earlier, the court rejected the first examination of the regional prosecutor's office for the publication of B. Mironov's article in the newspaper.

The Investigation Department for the Nizhegorodsky District of Nizhny Novgorod of the Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for the Nizhny Novgorod Region has begun a check on the collective appeal of Orthodox believers demanding to be prosecuted under Art.

At the construction site of a residential building in the Botanika microdistrict in Orel, human remains, vials with traces of a resinous liquid, and wooden crosses were found. Viktor Livtsov, chairman of the Oryol branch of the Society for the Protection of Monuments, believes that an Old Believer burial was located here. According to the local historian, the construction should be stopped, the burial should be examined and the remains removed.

On October 15, the Moscow City Court decided to reduce the prison term of Grigory Grabovoi, who was found guilty of fraud, by three years. Now he will have to serve in prison not 11, but 8 years. The fine in favor of the state was also reduced - from 1 million to 750 thousand rubles. In January 2009, it became known that G. Grabovoy, by decision of the Federal Penitentiary Service of December 10, 2008, would be transferred to one of the colonies of the Kama region.

On October 16, 2008, in the Moscow Regional Court, three young people were convicted in the case of a nationalist murder. Alexander Belov, born in 1985, Mikhail Molchanov, born in 1984 and Alexei Ugolnikov, born in 1986 were found guilty under s. "g, l" part 2 tbsp. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy motivated by national hatred). In addition, Aleksey Ugolnikov was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 161 (robbery).

On October 15, 2008, at the press conference Xenophobia in Russia: a look inside and out , organized by the SOVA center, a presentation of a new book by our center "Hate Speech and Elections. Federal and Regional Levels" took place. The book presents the results of monitoring hate speech in the federal and regional press during the two - Duma and presidential - election campaigns. We are seeing how hate speech in the media is changing rapidly.