On December 1, it became known that 17 graves were desecrated at the Kondrovskoye rural cemetery in the Kaluga region. Unknown people broke crosses, damaged tombstones, and smashed flower beds. A criminal case has been initiated. Sources In the Kaluga region, vandals destroyed a rural cemetery // Regions.ru. 2008. December 1st.

After it became known about the discussion of the possibility of temporarily transferring the icon of Andrei Rublev "Trinity" from the Tretyakov Gallery to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra for the worship of believers, leading Russian art historians and restorers prepared an open letter to Russian President D. Medvedev, Prime Minister V. Putin and Patriarch Alexy II.

Two Baptist congregations in Lipetsk have been deprived of state registration because they "didn't file a tax return on time," reports Credo.ru , citing Forum 18. The tax inspectorate declined to comment on this information. It should be reminded that in Lipetsk there is a lawsuit on the transfer of the church occupied by the Baptists to the Orthodox diocese.

On December 2, 2008, in the Moscow City Court, jurors delivered a verdict in the case of a series of nationalist attacks and murders by a group of Nazi skinheads ("the Ryno gang"). "According to the verdict of the jury of the Moscow City Court, Artur Ryno, Pavel Skachevsky, Roman Kuzin, Vitaly Nikitin, Alexander Anikin, Ivan Kitaikin and Denis Lavrinenkov were found guilty.

On November 7, by decree of the Metropolitan of Voronezh and Borisoglebsk Sergius (Fomin), the rector of the Epiphany Church in the village of Gribanovsky, priest Alexander Muravyov, was relieved of his post and appointed as a psalmist of the Kazan Church of Borisoglebsk. In September 2007, this priest served a prayer service on the territory of a comprehensive school, for refusing to participate in which one of the students of the school was beaten by classmates.

The authorities of Bashkiria declared December 6, 7 and 8 (Saturday, Sunday, Monday) as days off. This decision was made in connection with the celebration of the Muslim holiday of sacrifice - Kurban Bayram. Residents of Tatarstan also received an additional day off on December 8. Let us remind you that Muslim holidays were previously declared as days off in a number of Russian regions.

On November 5, the Ordzhonikidzevsky Court in Yekaterinburg dismissed a complaint filed by Jehovah's Witnesses who were trying to challenge a warning issued by the Asbest prosecutor's office against extremist activities. The prosecutor's office saw signs of inciting religious hatred in the magazines The Watchtower and Awake!, and the brochure Approaching Jehovah.

Alexei Grishin, chief adviser to the Russian President's Office for Domestic Policy, member of the board of the Foundation for the Support of Islamic Culture, Science and Education, speaking at a conference on theological education in Moscow on December 2, said that "foreign special services are actively working inside Russian Islam." In particular, six attempts have recently been made to recruit students from Islamic universities in Russia by foreign special services.

Employees of the Department for Combating Organized Crime under the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Penza Region detained a Penza resident suspected of setting fire to a synagogue. According to the investigation, on June 9, 2005, he splashed flammable liquid into the broken window of the synagogue and set it on fire. "The suspect has been charged, he is under house arrest," Interfax was told in the press service of the Internal Affairs Directorate.

A group of residents of the Kaltai rural settlement of the Tomsk region sent a letter to Governor Viktor Kress and the regional prosecutor Vasily Voikin with a request to stop the construction of a Hare Krishna settlement near the village of Kandinka. Residents of the village collect signatures under the requirement to demolish the buildings already erected.

On November 28, the house of the head of the missionary department of the Yaroslavl diocese, Hieromonk Serapion (Mitko), was set on fire. The arson was confirmed by firefighters. “Who could do this, I can’t say. Maybe they were some people who needed to settle scores with the church, maybe they were Satanists who had to kill a priest to advance in their hierarchy, Fr. ” Serapion with "Russian Observer".

On November 30, 2008, the "Russian March" took place in Perm , which did not take place in the city on November 15. The event was attended by activists of the Perm branch of DPNI, the Union for National Sobriety, the Solidarity trade union, as well as young people in respirators, among whom were football fans in Amkar club scarves.

On December 1, 2008, a rally organized by LDPR activists took place in Moscow near the Embassy of Ukraine, at which Vladimir Zhirinovsky spoke about people from the Caucasus and Central Asia. The leader of the Liberal Democratic Party said: “All Caucasians are barsetniks, thieves, speculators. They don’t know anything except corruption, dirt, terror. there is nothing to steal in the impoverished Caucasus and Central Asia .