On November 12, in the course of a meeting on interfaith cooperation, the Council for Interfaith Cooperation was established in the Penza region, the Russian Islamic Heritage reports . The meeting was attended by Deputy Chairman of the Regional Government Oleg Melnichenko, Head of the Department for National Policy and Relations with Religious Organizations under the Government of the Penza Region Alexander Elatontsev, representatives of all faiths in the region.

On November 13, 2008, in St. Petersburg was held an annual picket in memory of Timur Kacharava, who died on November 13, 2005. No more than 20 people stood at the picket at the same time. In total, about 100 people took part in the action, who laid flowers at the place of the murder and lit candles. The participants handed out leaflets with a list of anti-fascists killed since the murder of T. Kacharava. People came to the picket from different cities - Moscow, Angarsk, Izhevsk.

On November 10, 2008, in Moscow, at the Kitai-Gorod metro station, a 25-year-old visitor from Brazil and a native of Nicaragua, students of the Peoples' Friendship University, was attacked by 6 unknown persons. The students were severely beaten. The victims were admitted to the hospital on November 11 with concussion and fractures. Sources Peoples' Friendship University students hospitalized in the capital's hospital // CITY-FM. November 11, 2008

In October 2008, in a Moscow subway car, on the Sokolnicheskaya line, between the Okhotny Ryad and Park Kultury metro stations, two young men in dark clothes attacked a man of "non-Slavic appearance." The victim was severely beaten in the stomach, then they began to kick him. The attackers jumped out of the car to the Park Kultury metro station. One of the passengers called the police on his mobile phone and described the attackers. Based on internet blogs.

On November 13, the Supreme Court of Russia banned the activities of the international radical Islamist organization Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in the country. It has been classified as a terrorist. The Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation sent a statement on this case to the Supreme Court in September. Now this organization will be included in the unified federal list of organizations recognized as terrorist.

On October 22, 2008, Pavel K. and Sergei F. (both born in 1991) were detained in Izhevsk, who attacked a 14-year-old boy, a native of Azerbaijan. Initially, a criminal case was initiated under Article 111 (deliberate infliction of grievous bodily harm). In the course of the investigation, the motives for the crime were established, and on October 24, 2008, the charge was reclassified under Part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (attempted murder).

In penal colony No. 4 in Sheregesh, Kemerovo Region, the administration humiliated one of the prisoners for his religious beliefs. Colony workers shaved off Igor (Abdulla) Miroshkin's beard because he is engaged in religious education in the colony, Islam.ru reports . Several prisoners converted to Islam after Miroshkin's sermons. This caused dissatisfaction on the part of the administration of the institution.

The Murmansk diocese is concerned about the construction of a Pentecostal cult building on Polyarnye Zori Street in the center of Murmansk, Pravoslavie na Severnaya Zemlya reports . This became known from the head of the department of religious education and catechesis of the Murmansk and Monchegorsk diocese Anton Tuchkov.

On November 13, a rally was held in Moscow on Chistye Prudy against the transfer of the Ryazan Kremlin to the Orthodox diocese. The organizer of the action was the initiative group for the protection of the Ryazan Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve "Ryazan Kremlin". About 20 participants in the action held posters: “Russia is a secular state (Constitution of the Russian Federation, Article 14). Guarantors! Observe the Constitution!”, “The Kremlin is the heart of the land of Ryazan.

At the end of October 2008, in Balakhna (Nizhny Novgorod region), unidentified assailants smashed the windshields of two GAZelle cars owned by natives of the Caucasus and left leaflets threatening "Russia for Russians" and "Every day we watch your children" at the scene and we can pay at any time . " Currently, a criminal case has been initiated on this fact under Art. 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (hooliganism).

In the summer of 2008, in Moscow on Tverskoy Boulevard, a group of 7-8 young people (appearing to be 17-19 years old) attacked a dark-skinned young man and severely kicked him in the stomach. An eyewitness to the incident reports that he saw a girl calling on the phone next to the victim, and suggests that the cause of the attack could be that a black man was walking with a white girl. The beating was stopped by passers-by.

On October 24, 2008, it became known that in Borovichi (Novgorod region) Nazi skinheads beat up a man of "non-Slavic appearance" (a native of Dagestan), a traumatologist from the local Central District Hospital Kh.M. Nurmagomedov. The victim's condition is assessed as satisfactory. A criminal case was initiated under Part 3 of Art. 111 (deliberate infliction of grievous bodily harm) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

November 3, 2008 in Moscow, in a cafe on Gashek street, next to the Correas restaurant, a group of young people (5-7 people), under the age of 18, attacked a man of "non-Slavic appearance." (An eyewitness reports that the attack was on a "foreign citizen"). The beating was watched by passers-by who looked through the glass at what was happening in the cafe, but no one intervened in what was happening.