On the night of December 8, 2008, in Yekaterinburg, an unknown man set fire to the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and the parish school. Eyewitnesses of the incident report that before the arson, nationalist slogans and a swastika were painted on the fence near the church. The roof burned down on 350 square meters, the walls and parish property were damaged. The buildings were not saved. None of the people were hurt.

On December 7, 2008, the Day of Tolerance was held in Moscow. The event was organized by the Russian Jewish Congress (RJC). About 400 representatives of Moscow student organizations "of different nationalities - Azerbaijanis and Armenians, Georgians and Ossetians, Africans and immigrants from Central Asia" gathered at the youth evening. Also at the evening was the awarding of the winners of the RJC award "For the first success in the performing arts".

On December 7, 2008, citizens of Vietnam and China were hospitalized in Moscow with stab wounds. The attack on 26-year-old Vietnamese native Huang Chong, born in 1982, occurred in the south of Moscow, near house No. 2 on Varshavskoe Highway. The Vietnamese citizen was hospitalized by ambulance to one of the city hospitals. The victim suffered “multiple stab wounds to the back.” The time and circumstances of the incident are being clarified.

On December 7, on the northern wall of the complex of the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery of the Ryazan Kremlin, inscriptions appeared with the following content: "Death to the priests", "Alexy is dead" and others, reports 7 News . This is not the first time such an insult to the feelings of believers and the desecration of architectural monuments, - said the press secretary of the Transfiguration Monastery, priest Pavel Konkov. A criminal case has been initiated.

On December 8, 2008, it became known that the investigating authorities of the Komi Republic had completed the investigation of a criminal case against a student at the Ukhta State Technical University who posted on the Internet a film that was recognized by a court decision as "extremist material." The student is charged under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity).

On the night of December 7-8, an unknown man set fire to the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and the parochial school in Yekaterinburg. The buildings were not saved. Eyewitnesses of the incident claim that before the arson, someone painted the fence with nationalist slogans and a swastika. A criminal case has been initiated. Sources In Yekaterinburg, an unidentified man set fire to a temple and a parochial school // Official website of Channel One. 2008. December 8.

On December 8, 2008, the City Court of St. Petersburg passed a sentence on 4 residents of the city - Denis Dzhivovsky, Sergey Dmitriev and two minors - accused in the case of the murder of Uzbek citizen Ibragim Parmanov in Repino, which occurred in November 2007. All the defendants were found guilty under Art. .282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity). S. Dmitriev received 3 years of probation, D.

The conference "Actual problems of studying new religious movements and sects", organized by the Ryazan diocese, the Russian Association of Centers for the Study of Religions and Sects, the administration of Ryazan and the Ryazan State University, was held in Ryazan, Russkaya Line reports .

On December 2, it was submitted to the State Duma of the Russian Federation, and on December 5, 2008, the federal law "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation on Countering Terrorism" was adopted in the first reading, in one of the articles of which it is proposed to be excluded from the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation the possibility of trial by jury of a number of crimes. We are talking about crimes under Art. Art. 205 (terrorist act), 206 hours.

On December 5, 2008, the Russian Ministry of Justice once again updated the federal list of extremist materials. Four materials (NN292-295) are included in the update. Thus, as of December 5, 2008, the list includes 295 items prohibiting a total of 286 materials (because 9 items are included in it twice).

On December 6, an extraordinary meeting of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church was held at the Patriarchal residence in Peredelkino in connection with the death of Patriarch Alexy II. At this meeting, Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad was elected Patriarchal Locum Tenens. The Synod entrusted the administration of the Moscow diocese to Metropolitan Juvenaly of Krutitsky and Kolomna.

After the Russian March, a number of changes took place in the configuration of right-wing radical unions. On November 12, 2008, the leader of the NDPR announced his disappointment in the Russovets, withdrawing the organization’s signature under the October statement on the creation of the Russovets as a new form of self-organization of the Russian people. to the leader's statement, will continue its participation in the formation of the Moscow Russovet. On November 30 , A.

On December 7, 2008, President of the Russian Federation D.A. Medvedev signed the Decree “On organizational measures in connection with the death of Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II,” the official website of the Russian Orthodox Church reports. In particular, the president called on the government of the Russian Federation and the government of Moscow to provide assistance to the Patriarchate in organizing the funeral of Alexy II.