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On August 19, 2008, the Supreme Court of the Komi Republic confirmed the sentence against Savva Terentyev, given on July 7 by the Syktyvkar City Court.
On August 11, 2008, a criminal case had its debut, against a blogger who was overly outspoken against militiamen and the officers of the intelligence agencies. In contrast to the famous Savva Terentyev affair, where there was no political implications existed, this time legal action was undertaken against Dmitriy Solovyev, an activist of the "Oborona' ("Defense') movement in the Kemerovskaya Oblast'.
No less than 11 racially-motivated attacks were registered in the month of July 2008 in Russia, resulting in at least one dead and 15 injured. All these attacks occurred in the Moscow and St. Petersburg regions, which, as before, remain the main centers of violence.
On July 29, 2008, the Saratov Oblast' law court issued the guilty verdict to Andrey Koretskiy, Vitaliy Grishin and Pavel Zakutko for their participation in an attack against immigrant construction workers which resulted in two murders.
On July 28, 2008, not far from the Ridzhkaya Railway Station, unidentified people attacked several guest workers from Tajikistan and threw incendiary bottles into their dwellings. Some of the workers were taken to the hospital for resuscitation with severe injuries.
On July 24, 2008, the Zabaykal Krai district attorney's office submitted to the Chitinskaya Oblast' law court the request to liquidate the regional public organization Chitinskaya Youth Club for Guitar Playing "Velikyi Istok' ("Great Beginnings') and to delete its name from the federal juridical entities' register.
On July 24, 2008, following the communication about the arrest of Aleksey Bychin accused of stabbing a policeman, it became known that radical rightists obtained access to information about detained antifascists. According to the data from radical right sites, the information came from the police itself.
A young antifascist was put into custody in the Krestiy Prison by the Kuybyshev district law court in St. Petersburg. He is charged with the stabbing of an off-duty policeman and his friend, whom he had believed to be Nazi-skinheads, on June 13.
In March 2008, in St. Petersburg, a criminal case based on Article 116, Paragraph 2, Part (c) of the Russian Criminal Code (beating motivated by racial hatred) was set up against two female students at the 558 school in the Kolpino district.
