On November 16, 2008, "Month of Tolerance" started in schools and kindergartens of Buryatia. As the press service of the republican government explains, before the beginning of the month, an introductory introductory seminar-conference "Tolerance against aggression and xenophobia" was held for the heads of schools and kindergartens. On November 16, lessons of mutual understanding, kindness and tolerance were held in the schools of the republic.

The head of the Ozersky city district of the Chelyabinsk region, Sergei Chernyshov, allocated a plot for the construction of an Islamic complex in Metlino, the Russian Islamic Heritage reports . It will consist of a two-story mosque, a hotel, a madrasah, an administrative building and a utility block. Today there is not a single mosque in Metlino. Muslims gather in a small building bought by businessman Rinat Karivanov and handed over to the Muslim community free of charge.

The Soviet Interdistrict Investigation Department for Samara of the Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for the Samara Region opened a criminal case under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred committed in public) on the fact of the appearance in January 2007 in the Oktyabrsky district of the city on poles and walls of houses with anti-Semitic leaflets.

In Voronezh, the parishioners of St. Nicholas Church sent an appeal to the mayor of the city, Sergei Koliukh, and the chief architect, Anatoly Borodetsky. They are asking to stop the construction of a new building next to the temple of the XVIII century, Blagovest-info reports . The appeal was signed by more than 2 thousand citizens. The new owner of the land plot in front of the church intends to erect a 25 m high building on it, which will close the panorama of St. Nicholas Church.

The Orthodox St. Tikhon's University for the Humanities will seek the opportunity to defend candidate and doctoral dissertations in theology for graduates of both non-state and state universities, Interfax reports. “The next bastion that we need to take is the introduction of theology into the list of scientific specialties of the Higher Attestation Commission (IF).

On November 15, 2008, a group of young people beat up two people in an electric train car "Roshchino - St. Petersburg". One of the victims, a citizen of Uzbekistan, died. According to the transport police, there were about 15 attackers, among them were young men and girls. They entered the station "Pargolovo", and began to beat people of non-Slavic appearance. Three people were beaten. Citizen of Uzbekistan Sh. Ergashev was stabbed.

On November 19, 2008, Ivan Glukhov, deputy head of the Main Investigation Department at the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, announced at a press conference that in Moscow in 2007-2008. "activities of 7 youth extremist groups were suppressed." According to Glukhov, most of the participants in these associations are students, 18% are minors.

On November 6, 2008, the Committee for Socio-Political Analysis and Public Relations of the Administration of the Governor of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug published the results of a sociological survey of Ugra residents "Interethnic relations. Aggravation or stability?" The sociological study involved 2,100 people from 22 large municipalities of the district. 94% of respondents believe that there are many representatives of other nationalities arriving in Yugra.

On November 18, 2008, the prosecutor's office of the North-Eastern Administrative District of Moscow issued a warning about the inadmissibility of extremist activity to the editor-in-chief of the Russian Newsweek magazine, Mikhail Fishman. The reason was the publication of several materials about Islam, "aimed at inciting ethnic hatred" . We are talking about the articles "Who will come to us with a mosque" and "Sword-bearers", published in No.