We publish a general list of warnings issued by Rossvyazkomnadzor to the media for "carrying out extremist activities" in 2008. In total, the central and territorial departments of the department issued 28 warnings (9 - by the central office and 19 - by territorial bodies). Of these, at least 6 warnings we consider unlawful. Several publications received several warnings during the year: the newspapers Duel and Russkoe Zabaikal'e and the news agency Ura.Ru.

The Central Police Department of the Internal Affairs Directorate for Yoshkar-Ola refused to initiate a criminal case against Vitaly Tanakov under Art. 130 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (insult). Let us remind you that since 2007 the prosecutor's office has been trying to recognize Tanakov's pamphlet "The Priest Says" as extremist.

On January 13, 2009, it became known that teenagers suspected of attacking a Vietnamese citizen were detained in Ulyanovsk. Two teenagers (16-17 years old) were identified and detained on January 10, 2009. They reported that "they only beat the Vietnamese" . The third 14-year-old who fatally stabbed a Vietnamese native was on the run from law enforcement. On January 14, 2009, it was reported that he had also been detained.

At the beginning of January 2009, the prosecutor's office of the closed administrative-territorial formation (ZATO) of Zheleznogorsk (Krasnoyarsk Territory) issued a recommendation to the chief doctor of FGUZ KB No. 51 of Zheleznogorsk to eliminate violations of the law. The reason was that a hospital doctor by the name of Kiriyenko, concurrently the founder of the non-profit partnership "Scientology Center", helped to issue passes for travel to the city for three Scientologists.

On January 12, 2009, a trial began in the Novosibirsk Regional Court in the case of four Nazi skinheads accused of killing Turkish citizen Eslen Fatih Mehmet and beating Shairbek Altynbaev, a native of Kyrgyzstan. Recall that two 16-year-olds, one 17-year-old, as well as 20-year-old Egor Grachev are charged with p.p. "g" and "l" part 2 of Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy motivated by national hatred).

Following the meeting of Bishop Tikhon of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogorsk on November 22, 2008, and the head of the Catholic Archdiocese in Moscow, Archbishop Paolo Pezzi, it was decided not to build a Catholic church in Arkhangelsk. Instead, the Catholic community will acquire a house of worship or a place of worship.

On January 12, 2009, the case of two Nazi skinheads accused of organizing two explosions was brought to court in Moscow. According to investigators, in March 2008, the defendants set off an explosion at the entrance to the Eurocafe on Izmailovsky Prospekt, and in December 2007, in the Intim store on Leningradskoye Shosse. According to the defendants, "Intim" "corrupted the nation," and the cafe suffered because natives of Azerbaijan worked there. Sources Taktarov V.

On January 12, 2009, the Presnensky District Court of Moscow began considering the case of the National Bolshevik Dmitry Mants, accused under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 (participation in the activities of an extremist organization) and Part 1 of Art. 318 (use or threat of use of non-life-threatening violence against a representative of authority in connection with the performance of his official duties).

In the summer of 2008, at the Rostov Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, a dissertation was defended for the degree of candidate of legal sciences "Institutions of religious legal policy in a modern secular state." Dissertation student Olga Shmakova proposes to limit the missionary activities of "non-traditional" denominations, create a unified system to combat "religious extremism" and justifies the use of force against new religious movements.

On January 13, 2009, members of one of the neo-Nazi informal groups suspected of attacks on foreign citizens were detained in Moscow. (Earlier, it was said about the arrest of 10 people aged 16 to 23, suspected of "committing a number of serious crimes motivated by ethnic hatred on the territory of Moscow and the region" ).