Special Representative of the Russian President for the Middle East, Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Alexander Saltanov has filed an application with the Moscow prosecutor's office to conduct an investigation into the reprinting of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad by Russian Newsweek magazine. the prosecutor's office with a similar request Earlier, the Association of public associations "Assembly" addressed .

Levon Nersesyan, senior researcher at the Department of Ancient Russian Art of the State Tretyakov Gallery, spoke in his blog about the possible transfer of Andrei Rublev's icon "Trinity" to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra (TSL) for three days for a festive service.

On November 18, 2008, at about 19:20 in St. Petersburg, in a house on Korablestroiteley Street, three young people, aged 18-20, dressed in black knitted hats, black jackets and trousers, attacked 16-year-old citizen of Uzbekistan M. The attackers hit the victim several times in the chest and buttocks. The residents of the house called the police. The wounded man was hospitalized. The issue of initiating a criminal case is being resolved. Motives for the attack are being clarified.

On November 17, 2008, it became known that neo-Nazis arrested in Izhevsk for attacking a boy from Azerbaijan had previously actively cooperated with the Organized Crime Control Department to fabricate charges against anti-fascists. Thus, in April 2008, Pavel K. complained about the anti-fascist Alexander Mezenov, accusing him of assault on a bus. At the same time, another neo-Nazi, Gleb Drovosekov, filed a complaint against Mezenov in connection with an episode a year ago.

On November 18, 2008, the Yuri Levada Analytical Center (Levada Center) published the data of the "Interethnic Tensions" survey conducted on October 17-20, 2008 among 1,600 Russians. The statistical error of such surveys is not higher than 3%. The data are compared with similar data from previous years.

On November 19, the Buguruslan city court refused to satisfy the request of Aslanbek Ezhaev, head of the Umma publishing house, to restore the deadline for appealing against the decision of the same court to recognize 17 Muslim books and brochures as extremist. was initiated against A. Ezhaev In May 2008, a criminal case under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity) for distributing the book "The Personality of a Muslim" included in this list.

At the end of October 2008, the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications and Mass Communications (Rossvyazkomnadzor) (former Rossvyazohrankultura - ed.) published a list of warnings for using the media to carry out extremist activities issued by the territorial departments of the department in 2008. The Department for the Rostov Region issued a warning to the editors of the Chitay-Azov newspaper for publishing material under the heading "Hitler's Heir" in No. 1 (01) dated July 23, 2008.

Deputy Head of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, answering questions from listeners of Radio Radonezh, proposed creating Orthodox folk squads in Russia that would monitor the observance of public order.