On October 20, 2008, in Voronezh, "young people resembling skinheads" attacked fans of the Moscow ska group "Distemper" standing at a bus stop, performing at a nightclub located in the building of the Energia sports complex. A police squad was on duty near the scene of the incident. Several people were detained and taken to the Leninsky District Department of Internal Affairs.

On October 19, 2008, a procession of anti-fascists took place in the center of Petrozavodsk. The participants paid tribute to the memory of Fyodor Filatov, an anti-fascist who died in Moscow. About 50 people took part in the procession. Participants of the event marched along Lenin Avenue with posters "We will not forget! We will not forgive!" , chanted the slogans "No states, no borders, no races! No fascists of all stripes - from the doorway to the authorities!" handed out leaflets.

On October 20, 2008, it became known that the latest decision of the Yoshkar-Ola city court, by which Vitaly Tanakov's brochure "The Priest Speaks" was not recognized as extremist, was again canceled by the Judicial Collegium for Civil Cases of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Mari El. The case was returned to the same court for a new trial. The basis for this decision was some violations in the course of the previous process, discovered by the judicial board.

At the beginning of October 2008, in Novokuibyshevsk (Samara region), three homeless people were killed in one of the vacant lots on the outskirts of the city: two men and a woman. One of the killed, 29-year-old Sergei Kuzmin, had a swastika cut into his back and his hands and head were cut off. S. Kuzmin's hand with a note attached was planted in the St. Seraphim Church on October 9, 2008.

On the evening of October 17, a religious procession took place on Novatorov Street in Moscow in defense of the building designated for demolition , which Orthodox activists consider the skeleton of the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord, Interfax reports .

The implementation of a joint project of the Krasnoyarsk diocese and the city museum of Krasnoyarsk on the socialization and spiritual education of difficult teenagers and orphans has begun, Interfax reports . The first stage of the project will take place in November-December 2008.

The Yamalo-Nenets regional branch of the movement "Russian Islamic Heritage" organizes lectures on the topic "Islam and the family" in secondary schools in Novy Urengoy. Classes will be held once a week from November 2008 to May 2009. The deputy chairman of the Yamalo-Nenets branch of the OOD "RIN", a journalist and public figure, Zulfiya Osmanova, said that the school administrations are meeting halfway in this matter.

Imam of the Red Mosque of Tomsk Nizamutdin Dzhumaev became a member of the Public Chamber of the Tomsk Region. Elections to this social body were held at a recent meeting of deputies of the regional Duma in Tomsk. All candidates passed preliminary certification in a specially created committee at the regional Duma. In the process of individual voting, 42 people were selected, who made up the Civic Chamber of the Tomsk Region. N. Dzhumaev actively cooperates with the authorities.

On August 29, the city court of Yoshkar-Ola did not satisfy another claim of the city prosecutor's office to recognize Vitaly Tanakov's brochure "The Priest Speaks" as extremist material.

On October 20, it became known that the annual festival of national cultures "Krasnodar - the city of interethnic cooperation" took place in Krasnodar. The event was attended by about 25 creative teams from communities, unions of the Krasnodar Center for National Cultures. "Every year, all participants prepare for this event, as for a big holiday. New concert numbers are learned, rituals and traditions are rehearsed, colorful national costumes are sewn," the press service said in a statement.

Rock musicians of Togliatti sent a letter to the rector of the church of St. Sergius of Radonezh, hegumen Sergiy (Rybko) and the coordinator of the Union of Orthodox Brotherhoods of the Russian Orthodox Church, Yuri Ageshchev, with a request to protect them from the arbitrariness of the police.

On October 20, 2008, it became known that a businessman from Nerchinsk (Zabaikalsky Krai) Shakhbala Mirzabek-ogly Askerov applied to the prosecutor's office with a statement about "racial discrimination" by the head of the Nerchinsk district, Alexander Pereboev. In September 2004, Sh. Askerov acquired a fuel depot “legally through tenders” .