In the Ulyanovsk region, with the support of the regional government, the project “Beware of sects!” is being implemented. In April 2008, a scientific and practical conference “Religious movements in modern Russia: a strategy for interaction between society, religion, and government” was held, organized by the regional government and Ulyanovsk State University.

The chairman of the Congress of Jewish Religious Organizations and Associations in Russia (KEROOR), Rabbi Zinovy ​​Kogan, believes that religious organizations should take on the function of the Komsomol. "As a former member of the Komsomol, I can say that the Komsomol distracted from alcoholism, drug addiction, tattoos, earrings in the tongue, etc., only those who today know what to put their efforts into and will not drink or inject," the rabbi told .

On November 1, 2008, in Moscow, Chelyabinsk and other Russian cities, the actions of the Young Guard of United Russia (MGER) "Our money - our people!" directed against labor migrants In Moscow, on Verkhnyaya Radishchevskaya Street, about 30 activists of the movement gathered near the building of the Federal Migration Service (FMS). Also at the rally were activists from the Movement Against Illegal Immigration (DPNI). The Young Guards demanded to abolish the quota for labor migrants.

On October 29, 2008, in Samara, a criminal case was initiated against Alexei Tatarkin under part 2 of article 119 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (threat to kill or cause grievous bodily harm, committed on the basis of racial, national or religious hatred or enmity). The man is suspected of a nationalist escapade . Alfiya Yumakulova, who suffered from his actions, filed a complaint with the police immediately after the attack.

In October, the Ministry of Justice conducted an audit of the Russian Bible Society (RBS), although the planned audit was supposed to take place only in December. The inspectors came to the conclusion that the society is not a religious organization. Anatoly Rudenko, executive director of the RBO, told Credo.ru that at the end of September, the regional department of the Ministry of Justice filed claims with the Novosibirsk branch of the society.

On November 1, 2008, at 2:20 pm, a group of Nazi skinheads staged a demonstration in the Moscow Metro at the Lenin Library station. Approximately 25-27 people with the symbols of Spartak football fans walked in a small column along the metro (descending from the Russian State Library), chanting Nazi chants on the platform. At the same time, on at least one of the trains going towards Luzhniki, another group of fans, about 15 people, picked up these chants.

On October 27, 2008, the Petrogradsky District Court of St. Petersburg issued a verdict in the case of the explosion at the Rocks Club. Three members of the St. Petersburg nationalist organization "Slavic community" - two St. Petersburg residents Alexander Voronov and Taras Muzalev, as well as Muscovite Alexander Isaev were found guilty under Part 2 of Art.