On December 11, 2008, information appeared that in Krasnodar the district education departments turned to city schools with a demand to compile lists of Caucasian students with their home addresses. The justification for this requirement was that in the district "cases of extremism among young people in relation to people of Caucasian nationality" have become more frequent .

On December 11, 2008, the Lipetsk Pravoberezhny Court passed a verdict in the case of an attack on citizens of Cameroon and Algeria. The court, taking into account the evidence presented, found 17-year-old Aleksey Sh. guilty and sentenced him to 2.5 years of suspended liberty with a two-year probationary period. Recall that the defendant was charged under Part 1 of Art. 161 (robbery) and part 2 of Art. 282 (humiliation of human dignity on the grounds of race committed in public).

The Government of the Russian Federation decided to rename the village of the children's town of the Metropolitan, located in the Narofominsk district of the Moscow region, into the village of Zosimova Pustyn (the monastery of the same name is located next to the village). The renaming is carried out at the initiative of the Moscow Regional Duma. The Monastery of Zosimova Pustyn was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1999.

The public organization “Society of Orthodox Doctors of Tatarstan” has been officially registered in Tatarstan, reports Patriarchia.ru . This public association plans to carry out extensive social and charitable activities related to the presence of the Orthodox clergy of the Kazan diocese in medical institutions of Tatarstan. The society plans to create its own branch in each hospital.

On December 6, an attempt to seize the Church of the Ascension by force occurred in Barnaul, reports Portal-Credo.ru . It is still unknown who took part in this action. According to information from Portal-Credo.ru, at 13:45 local time, a temple worker who came to the church saw that there were about twenty armed people in bulletproof vests on the territory, sitting in cars with tinted windows.

On December 11, 2008, it became known that the Leninsky District Court of Voronezh had dismissed the case against 3 African students accused of attacking a local resident in April 2008. "The case was dismissed on the basis of Article 25 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation, since the victim received an application for reconciliation with the accused and compensation for the damage caused to him," said Mikhail Usov, senior assistant to the regional prosecutor.

In early December 2008, in the city of Kozlovka (Chuvashia), on the Alley of Glory, teenagers drew swastikas with a black marker and wrote "offensive inscriptions" on photographs of participants in the Great Patriotic War. Teenagers were detained by patrolmen. On December 11, 2008, the Department of Internal Affairs for the Kozlovsky District of Chuvashia opened a criminal case under Art. 214 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (vandalism).

A verdict was passed on a resident of Petrozavodsk, who was accused of placing on one of the network resources materials that called for violence against immigrants from the Caucasus. At the court session, he fully admitted his guilt and requested that the criminal case be considered in a special manner. The defendant was sentenced to 1 year of imprisonment with a suspended sentence of 2 years.

On December 11, 2008, the prosecutor's office of Dagestan received the results of an inspection of one of the issues of the newspaper "Vremya deystviya" conducted by Rossvyazkomnadzor, and sent these results to the investigation department of the Investigative Committee for Dagestan to resolve the issue of criminal prosecution of the newspaper. The audit found signs of violation of anti-extremist legislation, in particular, Part 2 of Art.

Director of the Human Rights Center of the World Russian People's Council, Associate Professor of the Moscow State Linguistic University Roman Silantyev called on the authorities to take special measures to protect the North Caucasian clergy, Interfax reports .