On October 20 or 21, 2008, in Moscow, at 32 Leninsky Prospekt, 45-year-old Japanese citizen Murato Yasuhiro was attacked in an underground passage. The police received a report that a group of young people were beating a man in the passage. The attackers fled the crime scene. The foreigner was hospitalized with head injuries. An attack motivated by national hatred is considered as one of the preliminary versions of the crime. Sources A Japanese citizen was beaten in Moscow // Rosbalt.Ru. 2008.

The heads of official Muslim centralized structures consider it legitimate that the Ministry of Justice intends to liquidate religious organizations that operate only on paper, Islam.ru reports . There are eight Islamic organizations on the list of the Ministry of Justice.

Under. ed. A.Verkhovsky We are publishing the text of the next seasonal report of the SOVA Center, dedicated to the manifestations of radical nationalism in Russia and counteraction to it in the winter of 2008. The report was written based on daily monitoring of our center, the results of which can be found on our website.

In the second half of October, the Federal List of Extremist Materials was replenished with video and audio messages and texts from North Caucasian separatists, ultra-right newspapers and anti-Semitic materials from 267 to 275 items.

On October 21, 2008, it became known that five young people were detained in Kaliningrad, from whom knives, camouflage masks and a red armband with a fascist swastika were seized during a search. A police squad detained them in the Park named after the 40th anniversary of the Komsomol, where young people drank beer and used foul language.

On October 15, 2008, Izvestia published an article by Dmitry Vladimirov, in which it was reported that the editors had at their disposal documents of law enforcement agencies about terrorist attacks allegedly being prepared on the territory of Russia, which should be carried out by "unidentified members, immigrants from the TFR (North Caucasian republics - " Izvestia") and Transcaucasia, including radical representatives of the association "Patriots of Georgia"" .

On October 20, 2008, the Rosbalt agency published an article by Alexander Shvarev "Georgian terrorists are a myth", aimed at refuting the information published a few days earlier in Izvestia (the announcement of the article was entitled "Georgians will not blow up Moscow" ).

On June 13, 2008, in Chernogorsk (Khakassia), a ritual murder was committed near the cemetery, Interfax reports . On the walls of the basement, where the corpse of an elderly man was found, there are drawings in the form of pictograms containing a six-pointed star, as well as various inscriptions made in a foreign language. An animal skull with horns was found on the floor. The police detained the suspects - two local residents aged 23 and 24.

In Yekaterinburg, several tombstones were destroyed at the Siberian cemetery. On the evening of October 20, visitors to the cemetery discovered several defiled graves: crosses were broken, tombstones were smashed. On October 21, employees of the Oktyabrsky District Department of Internal Affairs detained the vandals. They were a young man and a girl from Yekaterinburg. The young man takes full responsibility for what happened.

In one of the Omsk colonies, Muslims are subjected to ill-treatment for performing namaz, Islam.ru reports , citing a letter from a reader. According to the information received, Ilhomjon Nazarov, along with other Muslims, prayed at the time provided for this in the dormitory of the detachment to which the administration of the institution assigned him. The overseer entered and demanded that the service be stopped.

In the Nizhny Novgorod region, investigators from the Main Investigation Department (GSU) of the regional police department are investigating a criminal case against two Nazi skinheads accused of making explosive devices and blowing up the car of a native of the Caucasus. On October 21, 2008, it was announced that the investigation of the criminal case had been completed and the case was planned to be sent to the court of the city of Gorodets, Nizhny Novgorod Region.