On November 1, 2008, policemen in Nizhny Novgorod detained two teenagers suspected of "drawing racist inscriptions." Inscriptions calling for participation in the "Russian March" , as well as other inscriptions "Let's protect white children" and "Let's save Russian Russia" were made with black spray paint on the concrete fence of the former rocket school. In "hot pursuit" police auto-patrol on suspicion of committing these offenses were detained two pupils of the school 12 and 14 years old.

On November 4, 2008, rallies and processions were held in various cities of Russia, timed to coincide with the celebration of National Unity Day, organized by right-wing radical groups and united under the name "Russian March". The largest event was held in Moscow. Several applications have traditionally been submitted for holding events called "Russian March". This year, the situation was complicated by the split of the DPNI and, accordingly, the coalition to organize a nationalist march.

In the Nizhny Novgorod region, elections were held for a new chairman of the Spiritual Board of Muslims of the region. They were the first deputy chairman of the DUMNO, the head of the Nizhny Novgorod national-cultural autonomy of the Tatars and the imam-hatib of the Dzerzhinsk Cathedral Mosque, Gayaz Zakirov. He was elected at the IV Congress of the clergy and parishioners of Nizhny Novgorod and the region by a majority vote (113 votes in favor, four against).

November 3, 2008 in the city of Solnechnogorsk (Moscow region) there was a mass brawl between immigrants from Chechnya and paratroopers of one of the military units of the Moscow region. It was preceded by a quarrel at the local market, which broke out between several Chechens on the one hand, paratroopers and local residents on the other. The quarrel ended with one of the Chechens being beaten. It was decided to postpone the continuation of the showdown until the evening of the same day.

On November 2, 2008, a "March Against Hate" took place in St. Petersburg. The event was attended by about 300 people. The participants of the march proceeded from the DS "Yubileiny" to Vasilyevsky Island. The march participants chanted "No to racism", "St. Petersburg without fascism", "All different people are equal", "There are no illegal immigrants" . The march ended with a rally on Sakharov Square, which lasted about an hour.

Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia sent a letter to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev with a request "to ensure the stability of the Russian Orthodox Church in the new financial conditions," Russkaya Liniya reports . The Patriarch wished to expand the system of insurance of deposits of individuals to all the funds of the Russian Church. In addition, the Church counts on significant benefits in paying utility bills, exemption from property tax and an interest-free loan from the state.

On November 4, 2008, rallies and marches were held in various cities of Russia, timed to coincide with the celebration of the "Day of National Unity" and organized by right-wing radical groups, united under the name "Russian March". The "Russian March" in St. Petersburg was organized by the "Slavic Union". About 100 people gathered at the Oktyabrsky Big Concert Hall and marched in a column along 4th Sovetskaya Street to the Chernyshevsky Garden, where the rally was held.

On November 4, 2008, in the west of Moscow, in the Mozhaisky district, where 15-year-old schoolgirl Anna Beshnova was recently killed, a series of neo-Nazi attacks on citizens of Uzbekistan took place. In the evening, a group of 6 young people, shaved bald, dressed in puffy short black jackets, near house 14 on Ivan Franko Street, attacked a citizen of Uzbekistan (according to other sources, a citizen of Turkmenistan) 28-year-old Maksut Evyev, who worked in Moscow as a janitor.

On November 5, 2008, the Ordzhonikidzevsky Court of Yekaterinburg dismissed the complaint of Asbest's Jehovah's Witnesses about the unlawfulness of the prosecutor's warning about the inadmissibility of extremist activity. As a reminder, we do not consider issuing this warning lawful. Inc. inf.

On November 4, 2008, in Moscow, in Maly Afanasyevsky Lane, at 12:10, the secretary of the Turkmen embassy, ​​31-year-old Kurbandura Saparov, was beaten. At this time , the “Russian March” was taking place on the old Arbat. 10 people attacked him and began to beat him, shouting “various slogans directed against the non-Russian population.” The embassy secretary had his ear torn and his ribs broken. Saparov was hospitalized in serious condition.

at the end of October, in their original place The administration of the Preobrazhensky cemetery in Moscow and the State Unitary Enterprise "Ritual" restored the graves and tombstones of the Old Believers, which began to be demolished , Portal-Credo.ru reports . This work was carried out promptly on November 2-3. Employees of the State Unitary Enterprise "Ritual" restored the former appearance of the burials from photographs.

On November 2, as part of the IV Congress of delegates of clergy and parishioners of Nizhny Novgorod and the Nizhny Novgorod region, an appeal to the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev and an open letter about the textbook “History of Religions” were signed, reports Nizhny Novgorod News .

On November 5, 2008, the Novosibirsk Regional Court passed a sentence on a group accused of a whole series of crimes, including a series of arson attacks on gypsy houses in the city of Iskitim (Novosibirsk Region), as a result of which an 8-year-old child died and hundreds of people were left homeless. There were seven defendants in the dock. The leaders of the group were Alexander Grigoriev (Grinya) and Oleg Bakharev. Oleg Bakharev, charged under Art. 162 part 4 p.