In 2008, in Moscow near Profsoyuznaya metro station, four men attacked an Afghan native and beat him with their hands and feet. The attack happened for no apparent reason. The Afghan had a broken nose. The victim was not robbed. He did not apply to the police, because. there was no evidence. Sources Information provided by the organization "Civil Assistance".

A resident of Makhachkala, Irina Alexandrovskaya, speaking at a conference of human rights organizations in Moscow on December 10, spoke about pressure on her from law enforcement agencies. The woman and her two children recently converted to Islam. After that, "the family was immediately taken on a pencil," the district police officer began to find out who pushed them to such a decision.

On December 16, 2008, it became known that two 17-year-old Nazi skinheads were detained in Volgograd, who attacked a black youth, a US citizen, on December 5. The teenagers were betrayed by their friend, who previously also belonged to the Nazi skinheads. From mutual acquaintances, the girl learned that her former friends attacked the young man. The detainees are in the isolation ward and have confessed.

The Chelyabinsk diocese urged not to turn the archeological monument of the Bronze Age "Arkaim" into a center of occult tourism. "For some time now, Arkaim has become not only and not so much an object of serious historical research, but a subject of parascientific speculation. In fact, the archaeological site of the Southern Urals is turning into a center of occult tourism," Interfax quotes a message from the press service of the diocese .

On December 4, the Gribanovsky District Court of the Voronezh Region dismissed the lawsuit filed by the Voronezh pastor Alexei Perov against the local school. The plaintiff demanded that the holding of an Orthodox prayer service at the village school No. 3 in September 2007 be declared illegal and that moral damages be compensated: the pastor's son David, who refused to participate in the prayer service, was beaten up by classmates for this. litigation The continued for a year.

On December 11, the Arbitration Court of the Lipetsk Region declared illegal the deregistration of the Church of Evangelical Christian Baptists of the Pravoberezhny District of Lipetsk. The entry about the exclusion of this church from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (EGRLE) was declared invalid.

On December 16, 2008, the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation announced the arrest of four more alleged members of the Ryno gang. The search for unidentified accomplices in a number of attacks continues. Recall that on December 15, 2008, the Moscow City Court delivered a verdict in the case of a series of nationalist attacks and murders by the Ryno-Skachevsky group, which was accused of 20 murders and 12 attempts motivated by ethnic hatred.

On December 15, 2008, it became known that in Armavir (Krasnodar Territory) a criminal case was initiated under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of hatred or enmity) against Andrey Mozzhegorov, attorney at law of the Union of the Russian People. He is charged with distributing in 2007 the brochure of the monk Afonasiy "Give us back the Motherland, or the Station - Baku (without suitcases)", which was recognized as extremist in the summer of 2008 in Stavropol.