On May 21, 2009, the Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Vologda Regional Court considered the cassation appeal against the verdict of the Cherepovets City Court dated April 6, 2009 under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (commission of actions aimed at inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of the dignity of a group of persons on the grounds of nationality and attitude to religion, committed in public), issued by Natalya Yuganova.

On May 21, 2009, Alexander Bastrykin, chairman of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation, stated at an interdepartmental meeting that "over the past 10 years, the number of crimes committed on the basis of ethnic hatred and enmity has increased by 68% from 9 to 15 thousand" . Bastrykin expressed concern about the spread of fascist ideology among the youth.

In Nizhny Novgorod, members of the youth nationalist group "OB-88" ("White Society Heil Fuhrer") were detained. (Initially, one suspect was reported to have been detained.) A criminal case has been initiated under Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organization of an extremist community). Members of the group committed attacks and killings motivated by ethnic hatred.

The Moscow authorities decided to transfer a number of premises and a building in the center of the capital to a seminary "for free use" of the Sretensky stauropegial monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church. Recall that earlier the authorities have already expressed their intention to return part of the territories to the monastery.

In mid-May, a draft federal law on the protection of children was submitted to the State Duma. In particular, the bill provides for penalties for child abuse. Representatives of the Council of Muftis of Russia, the Coordinating Center for Muslims of the North Caucasus and the Central Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the country supported the project, subject to approval by the deputies of the State Duma.

The pastors of the Word of Life Evangelical Christian churches in Saratov and the Saratov region appealed to Patriarch Kirill about "inciting inter-religious hatred by the Saratov diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate." In their appeal, the Pentecostals point out that in the past few days, a leaflet has been distributed in the churches of the Saratov Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church with information that “the action “Feel the power of change” is currently being

The Arzamas City Court (Nizhny Novgorod region) delivered a verdict in a criminal case under paragraph "a" part 2 of article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred), on the fact of beating by I. Karavanov and A. Trushchin "by prior conspiracy on the basis of national hatred and enmity" by T. Avdoyan, a native of Armenia. The defendants were sentenced to 2 years of probation. The case went to trial in 2008. T.

On May 19, 2009, investigators and employees of the Federal Security Service of the Astrakhan region and the ORB of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Southern Federal District detained an 18-year-old 1st year student of the Akhtuba branch of the Moscow Aviation Institute.

At the end of May 2009, it became known that a fascist swastika and nationalist slogans were painted on the wall of a school in the Zavolzhsky district of Tver. The offender has been identified. It turned out to be a 15-year-old student of the school. The issue of initiating a criminal case against a minor is being resolved. It is reported that the teenager "had read the literature of one nationalist party. It has no official registration" .

At the end of May 2009, two students were killed in Stavropol as a result of stab wounds. According to one version, the attacks could have been motivated by ethnic hatred. On May 18, Yanis Kasiteridi, born in 1987, a resident of Pyatigorsk, a student of residency at the Stavropol State Medical Academy, died of stab wounds to the chest and stomach. The attack took place on the street. The wounded Kasiteridi managed to get to the house, where he died from the blows received.

At the end of May 2009, in Moscow, on Pokrovsky Boulevard, at a bus stop and at the Mosgorspravka stand (inside a locked box), leaflets with anti-Semitic statements were found. Eyewitnesses left a statement to the police. Law enforcement officers did not take any action on the application. Information provided by the Civic Assistance Committee.

On May 19, 2009, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the verdict issued in October 2008 in the case of a group of 8 Nazi skinheads (Rodoshkevich's group), who were accused of attacks on immigrants from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, committed in 2002. All they were found guilty under paragraphs "a", "c" part 3 of Art. 162 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (committing robbery with the use of violence dangerous to life with the use of weapons).