On April 26, 2009, the St. George Ribbon Against the Fascist Cross action took place in Ulyanovsk, organized by a number of local branches of political parties and social movements. "In fact, it was an anti-fascist subbotnik. We painted over fascist and nationalist slogans, which, unfortunately, are found on the streets of our city, with a St. George ribbon. Somewhere we painted flowers," one of the organizers of the action said. Note that such actions are held in many cities of Russia.

On April 25, 2009, it became known that in the city of Kamenka, Penza Region, employees of the administration of the website "Islam in Kamenka" were summoned to the prosecutor's office. They were warned about the undesirability of posting two materials on the site: "A reminder to a Muslim" and "In the footsteps of Satan", as they may contain signs of extremism. Both materials are absent from the Federal List of Extremist Literature.

On April 27, it became known that 58 monuments in the cemetery were desecrated in the village of Podnovoloki, Miloslavsky district, Ryazan region. The crime was committed by two underage young people, one of them was recently released from the Center for temporary isolation of juvenile delinquents. The criminal case was not opened because both offenders are minors.

On April 27 and 28, 2009, activists of a certain "Nizhny Novgorod Autonomous Combat Cell" D. Korobkin and A. Kukin threw Molotov cocktails through the window of a house on the street. Factory in the Leninsky district of Nizhny Novgorod, where V. Papyan, a native of Armenia, lived. On April 27, the fire engulfed the window frame and did not enter the room - the owner of the house, together with his son, put out the fire.

In April 2009, in St. Petersburg, the commission of the University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced the results of an internal audit in connection with the appearance of an anti-Semitic textbook by Professor V.A. Drozhzhin "History of the domestic state and law 1985-1991: a textbook". The entire edition of the textbook was destroyed by the University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

On April 21, the Tyumen branch of the Interregional Public Movement "In Defense of Orthodox Morality" held a picket near the walls of the Church of the Savior. Believers are concerned about plans to build a hotel "Marriott" near the historic temple. The protesters demanded that the decision to build the Marriott be cancelled.

On April 24, in Izberbash (Dagestan), officers of the Federal Security Service of Russia and the Department for Combating Extremism and Terrorism of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Dagestan stopped a gathering of activists from the religious organization Nurcular. Recall that the activities of this organization in Russia is prohibited .

Yaroslavl anti-sectarian center is concerned about the plans to hold in Yaroslavl from May 1 to May 31 the action "Feel the power of change." "Do not forget that free cheese is only in a mousetrap, and the desire to get a picture book for nothing can turn into a big disaster. Cultists are hunting for your souls, using every opportunity to recruit. Keep this in mind when you see the promotion ad: Feel the force of change," the statement issued by the center says.

On April 28, 2009, the Supreme Court of Russia upheld the guilty verdict in the case of a series of nationalist attacks and murders by a group of Nazi skinheads ("the Ryno gang"). Nazi skinheads were accused of 20 murders and 12 assassination attempts motivated by national hatred. The court dismissed the cassation appeal of the lawyers of the accused, who asked to mitigate the punishment of their clients. Recall that the Nazi skinheads were sentenced to terms of 6 to 20 years under paragraphs.

The public organization "United Orthodox Youth" appealed to the public with a request to actively oppose the holding of a gay pride parade in Moscow. The organization encourages people to write appropriate applications to the Moscow City Hall, the Public Chamber, the prosecutor's office and law enforcement agencies.

The head of the psychological department of the Perm Internal Affairs Directorate, Larisa Shilova, made a report on the problem of counteracting "sects". In her speech, the police representative dwelled on the recently increased activity in the city of followers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) and Jehovah's Witnesses. L. Shilova believes that the clergy of the ROC MP should be more active in matters of "rehabilitation" of former adherents of "sects".

On April 21-26, 2009 in Bakuriani (Georgia) an international conference was held: Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue vs. Hate motivated Violence in Europe;. The event was organized by the NGO "The Union "Century 21"". The conference was attended by representatives of various NGOs from the CIS countries and Western Europe dealing with the problems of xenophobia, racism, migrants, national and other minorities. Representative of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia addressed the audience.

Let me start with the main conclusion: there is no international anti-racist movement, and the Durban Review Conference proved this once again. If anyone was under the illusion that the purpose of the whole process or this meeting was to create or strengthen such a movement, then the conference should be called a failure - and conversations with some of the participants convinced me that such expectations were. But better in order.

On April 19, in the village of Nizhny Karachan, Gribanovsky district, 6 graves were damaged at the city cemetery. On one, a monument was knocked down and a photograph was broken, on two wooden crosses the crossbars were torn off, and two iron ones were bent. Eyewitnesses of the incident told the investigator that on that day one of the local residents was engaged in the desecration of the burial places. The police have identified the perpetrator.