On November 14, 2008, a member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation, lawyer Pavel Astakhov, in an interview with REGNUM, defined the actions of the organizers and participants of the picket in the Bashkir city of Sibay, which took place on November 8 this year, as unequivocally extremist.

In early November, about 20 graves were destroyed at the Kazan cemetery in Ryazan. The vandals broke the crosses and smashed the gravestones. Residents of neighboring houses saw a company of young people. The graves were desecrated randomly, i.e. there is apparently no nationalist or religious motive. Sources In Ryazan, vandals raided a cemetery // Native city.ru. 2008. November 7th.

The head of the press service of the Moscow Patriarchate, priest Vladimir Vigilyansky, denied information about a letter from Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia to President Dmitry Medvedev with a request to provide the Russian Orthodox Church with an interest-free loan and benefits for servicing bank deposits and paying for utilities.

On November 14, 2008, it became known that the case of four Nazi skinheads accused of killing Turkish citizen Eslen Fatih Mehmet and beating Shairbek Altynbaev, a native of Kyrgyzstan, was transferred to the Novosibirsk Regional Court for consideration on the merits. Two 16-year-olds, one 17-year-old, and also 20-year-old Egor Grachev are charged under paragraphs. "g" and "l" part 2 of Art.

with a case of inciting ethnic and religious hatred. On November 11, 2008, the Naberezhnye Chelny inter-district SOSU of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Tatarstan charged the chairman of the Tatar Public Center, Rafis Kashapov, Earlier, Kashapov was a suspect in this case.

In Kursk, vandals doused with flammable liquid and set fire to the cross at the construction site of the church of St. mch. Onufry. The figure of Christ on the cross suffered. According to believers, the cross was set on fire by teenagers after the celebration of Halloween: residents of neighboring houses saw a group of 10-12-year-old children setting firecrackers near the site of the future temple. The rector of the parish did not call the police.

On November 11, 2008, in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, the verdict passed on September 29, 2008 in the case of D.M. Kurbanov, who was convicted for organizing rallies against labor migrants in the village of Iskateley and Naryan-Mar on October 6 and 7, 2007. The investigation found that a local underage girl who had a dislike for migrants spread a rumor that she was allegedly raped by immigrants from the Caucasus, which was the cause of the conflict.

The former imam of the Ufa mosque, Said Baiburin, who was found guilty of publicly inciting extremist activities, disappeared after being released from the colony. On November 7, an employee of the operational department of colony No. 9 in Ufa, the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Republic of Bashkortostan, who did not give his last name, told lawyer Svetlana Avdzhaeva that S. Baiburin would be released on November 14 at 10-00.

The course “Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture” is taught in 191 educational institutions in the Rostov region. Teaching is carried out within the framework of an agreement between the regional Ministry of Education and the Rostov diocese. “The project is being implemented in two municipalities of the region. In the Oktyabrsky district, this training course has been introduced in all schools.