Prosecutors in Chita, Russia charged the editor of a local newspaper with extremism, according to a July 11, 2008 report on the web site Jewish.ru. The newspaper "Russkoe Zabaykale" is the official organ of the local branch of the Union of the Russian People, named for a group that led pogroms against Jews in the late Tsarist period. Its editor, Aleksandr Yaremenko, previously received a warning from the prosecutor's office but continued to publish antisemitic articles. On July 10, a local court approved the charges of extremism and ordered that the newspaper's property be confiscated.

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