On December 18, 2008, one of the leaders of the local National Bolsheviks, Alexei Nikiforov, was detained in Yekaterinburg. The things seized from him were sent for examination for extremism.

On December 17, graduates of the Novosibirsk branch of the Barnaul Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (the former Novosibirsk Specialized Secondary School of Militia of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia) were blessed for service in the internal affairs bodies by the rector of the Novosibirsk Cathedral in the name of the Holy Prince Alexander Nevsky, Archpriest Alexander Novopashin, who taught them a course of "sect studies".

On December 17, 2008, in the report of the FSB for the Samara region, it became known that sites were "suppressed" the activities of a number of "extremist" by court decisions . Among these sites were named "The Northern Brotherhood.

The Union of Orthodox Citizens accuses "political strategists" of trying to denigrate the Church and the locum tenens of the patriarchal throne, Interfax reports . The head of the Union, Valentin Lebedev, said that the methods of the opponents of the Russian Orthodox Church are "personal and ideological compromise of the locum tenens", as well as "Goebbels propaganda" on the principle of "lie big, and they will believe you"".

FSB director Alexander Bortnikov, at a meeting with media representatives, spoke about the activities of his department in the fight against religious extremism and terrorism. According to him, 23 leaders and functionaries of the international terrorist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir were convicted in 2008, Interfax reports . In addition, five activists of the Islamic Party of Turkestan were detained and extradited.

On December 17, 2008, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation considered a cassation appeal against the sentence of three young people convicted by the Moscow Regional Court on October 16, 2008 for nationalistic murder. The Supreme Court upheld the verdict and dismissed the complaint. Alexander Belov, born in 1985, Mikhail Molchanov, born in 1984 and Alexei Ugolnikov, born in 1986 were found guilty under s. "g, l" part 2 tbsp.

The Moscow State United Museum-Reserve (Kolomenskoye-Izmailovo-Lefortovo-Lyublino) donates ancient icons, books and church vestments to the Nikolo-Ugreshsky Monastery in Dzerzhinsky. The handover ceremony will take place on December 19. In total, it is planned to transfer 38 items to the Church, including the icon of the Cathedral of the Archangel Michael and other incorporeal forces (XVII century) and liturgical printed books of the XVIII-XIX centuries.