On December 21, 2008, in St. Petersburg, on the spit of Vasilyevsky Island, law enforcement officers detained about 35 people (including 7 girls), mostly members of the Slavic Union organization, who had gathered there to celebrate the Kolyada holiday. At the end of December 2008, it became known that an administrative penalty had been imposed under Part 1 of Art.

On December 25, 2008, the Presnensky District Court of Moscow recognized as extremist the contents of the leaflets of the National Bolsheviks distributed at the protests on February 11, 2008 at the Khudozhestvenny cinema during the screening of a film about Vladimir Putin.

Metropolitan of Voronezh and Borisoglebsk Sergiy (Fomin) on December 22 announced the performance of diocesan structures involved in social work and charity. Compared to 2005, the amount of funds allocated by the diocese for social and charitable purposes increased from 500 thousand rubles to almost 2.5 million rubles in 2008. A significant amount of assistance is provided directly by the diocesan council.

came into legal force. On December 25, 2008, the verdict of the magistrate of precinct N 269 of the Nizhny Novgorod district of Moscow against 16-year-old Aleksey B. and 17-year-old Dmitry N., who beat citizens of Uzbekistan in February 2008, The defendants are charged with paragraph "b" part 2 of Art. 116 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (beating and committing other violent acts, motivated by national hatred). The court found the defendants guilty and sentenced Aleksey B.

On December 25, 2008, it became known that in October 2008 in Ulyanovsk, unknown persons desecrated the monument "Grieving Mother" on the mass grave of the city cemetery on the street. K. Marx, the esplanade on the square of the 100th anniversary of the birth of V.I. Lenin (regional Board of Honor), a monument to Karl Marx on the street. Communist, a monument to I.N. Ulyanov in the park on the street. 12-th of September.

On December 25, 2008, it became known that in St. Petersburg, employees of the Center "E" of the Main Department of Internal Affairs (for combating extremism) detained 5 young people aged 18 to 23 on suspicion of an attack in November 2007 on a 24- year-old black graduate student, citizen of the Congo Mkam Mair Alexander Muneni. Among the detainees are three residents of St. Petersburg, a resident of the city of Pushkin and a resident of Sertolovo.

The missionary department of the Irkutsk diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church MP sent an appeal to the State Duma deputy Gudkov G.V. In connection with the parliamentary initiative he voiced "To fully resume beer advertising in the Russian media, which is necessary to save television, radio and print media in the context of the global financial crisis" . Employees of the missionary department are concerned about this proposal, the website of the Irkutsk diocese reports.

On December 24, 2008, the Voronezh Regional Court held a preliminary hearing in the case charged of five teenagers with the murder of 15-year-old boy Andrey Zubkov. The preliminary hearing ended with the return of the case to the investigative committee "for revision". Once the deficiencies have been corrected, the case will be considered on the merits. Recall that young people are accused under paragraphs.

In Perm, the administration of one of the municipal districts and the deanery of the Southern District of the Perm and Solikamsk diocese have entered into a cooperation agreement, the official website of the Moscow Patriarchate reports. Interaction will take place in the field of education, spiritual and moral education, culture and youth policy.

On December 24, 2008, the Prosecutor's Office of the Udmurt Republic hosted an interdepartmental meeting of the working group on countering extremism and terrorism with the participation of representatives of law enforcement and regulatory authorities, Internet providers. At the meeting, issues of work to counter extremist activity, including on the Internet, were discussed. The meeting discussed the issue of counteracting the spread of "terrorist and extremist" materials via the Internet.