On December 30, 2008, it became known that in Saratov a man who painted a swastika on a building was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (propaganda and public display of Nazi paraphernalia or symbols). The court found P. guilty and sentenced him to administrative arrest for 7 days.

A cooperation agreement was signed between the Murmansk diocese and the regional ministry of education. The agreement provides for the development of a course program for elementary schoolchildren on the Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture, the joint holding of festive events, the participation of employees of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the activities of the diocesan attestation commission of the department for religious education and catechesis, and joint inspection of Sunday schools.

At the end of December, the first official meeting of members of the Russian Orthodox Church commission for Old Believer parishes with representatives of the Russian Old Orthodox Church took place. During the meeting, the status and significance of the Great Moscow Council of 1666-1667, at which the old rites were cursed (the curses were lifted in 1971), and the question of the apostolic succession of the hierarchy of the Russian Old Orthodox Church were discussed.

On December 30, 2008, in St. Petersburg, the carriages of the first line of the city metro were plastered with a large number of neo-Nazi leaflets of various contents.

In December 2008, in Nevinnomysk (Stavropol Territory), near the Olimpiets sports palace (according to other sources, the Stroitel), during a power sports competition, a group of young people attacked athletes from the North Caucasus. The attackers used traumatic weapons. It is reported that "due to lack of evidence, and also because of the fear of some victims to turn to law enforcement agencies," only one of the attackers, Yevhen Burkhach, was prosecuted.

On December 30, 2008, in Ukhta (Komi Republic), a court found guilty a student of the Ukhta State Technical University in the case of distributing an anti-Semitic film. Defendant Andrei Paidimirov was found guilty 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) and sentenced to 90 hours of corrective labor. Sources Ukhta student convicted of extremism // Strana.Ru. 2008. December 30.

In December 2008, at least 8 people were injured in racist and xenophobic attacks, two of whom died. As before, a significant decrease in the number of victims (in 2007 during the same period 11 people died and 39 were injured) we attribute solely to the lack of information. December attacks, in addition to Moscow, were recorded in Novosibirsk, Volgograd and Belgorod.

On December 15, 2008, in Saratov, on the territory of the Volga-2 garage-building cooperative, citizen P. sprayed a swastika on one of the garages with an aerosol can. At the time of drawing the swastika, the man was detained by police officers in the Frunzensky district. The detainee P. declared that neo-Nazi ideas were close to him. This became known from the news about the recognition of the detainee as guilty.

In 2008, the Independent Legal Expert Council published the materials of the 2006 conference held at the Russian State University of Oil and Gas named after V.I. Gubkin conference "Modern legal education". In one of the articles in the collection, the correspondent of Credo.ru saw manifestations of xenophobia and intolerance based on religion or beliefs. We are talking about the article by Yu.G.

We publish a list of convictions for violent crimes in which the motive of national and religious hatred was officially recognized, issued in Russia in 2008. The list was compiled based on the monitoring materials of the SOVA Center and is given in chronological order. In total, in 2008 we became aware of 33 guilty verdicts handed down in 19 regions of the country. February 27, 2008, Barnaul. The verdict in the case of the murders of natives of Armenia and Azerbaijan in October 2006.