On March 15, a meeting of artists and representatives of public organizations was held in Moscow in connection with the trial of the exhibition “Beware of Religion!” Among the almost 80 people present were the chairman of the Moscow Helsinki Group Lyudmila Alekseeva, lawyer Yuri Shmidt, artistic director of the State Center for Contemporary Art Leonid Bazhanov, priest Gleb Yakunin, artists Vera Sazhina, German Vinogradov, poetess Elena Katsyuba, member of the Anti-War Committee Mikhail Kriger

On March 10, court hearings began in Nizhny Novgorod in the case of Maxim Zavrazhnov, who is accused of evading alternative civilian service. As a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses, M. Zavrazhnov refused to serve in the military and was sent to the boarding school for the disabled and elderly in the Avtozavodsky district of Nizhny Novgorod to undergo the ACS. (According to the law on the ACS, a conscript must be sent to another subject of the federation).

On March 16, 2005, Vasily Yakemenko, in a conversation with a Gazeta.Ru correspondent, admitted that he would soon officially lead the Nashi movement.

The Interconfessional Consultative Committee (ICC) of the Perm Region lost the status of a legal entity. The representative of the Perm diocese, Archpriest Alexei Marchenko, explained that this was a "unanimous decision", but the deprivation of the status of a legal entity does not mean the liquidation of the interfaith committee. "Without a legal entity, it will be more convenient for us to work, we will feel more free," the priest said.

Late in the evening on March 14, 2005 in Lipetsk, at a public transport stop, 22-year-old citizen of the Republic of Mali Maiga Abu Bakara, a 1st year student of the philological faculty of the Lipetsk State Pedagogical University, was beaten up.

In the first days of Lent, billboards with the ten biblical commandments appeared on the streets of Moscow. The idea of ​​the advertising campaign arose in October at the forum "Spiritual and Moral Foundations of the Demographic Development of Russia" and was implemented by the Union of Social Advertising Creators (USSR). "We did not come up with any special creativity, but turned to something that has existed for millennia," said Stanislav Bochkov, press secretary of the USSR.

On March 15, 2005, the Prosecutor's Office of the Pravoberezhny District of Lipetsk opened a criminal case under Art. 282, part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“humiliation of human dignity on the basis of nationality and race, committed with the use of violence”) on the fact that four local residents attacked an African student and insulted him on racial grounds. Sources In Lipetsk, a criminal case was opened on the fact of inciting ethnic hatred // IA REGNUM. 2005.

On March 16, 2005, the State Duma of the Russian Federation, in the third and final reading, adopted the law “On the Public Chamber,” which defines the main legal and organizational issues of the formation and activities of the new body.

In the Samara region, three unregistered citizens of Kyrgyzstan were detained - representatives of the international organization "Islamic Appeal" ("Tablig"). The detainees were found to have religious literature, in particular, the book "Fortress of a Muslim", published by the Ibrahim al-Ibrahim Foundation, whose activities in Russia were terminated in 2000.

Yury Polyakov, editor-in-chief of Literaturnaya Gazeta, gave an interview to Komsomolskaya Pravda (March 16, 2005). According to the writer, the main problems now in the country are "state insufficiency and dilettantism and incompetence" . The existing opposition is ridiculous, people do not want opposition, but strong power - and this is normal: "There are always more people with a statist worldview.

On March 15, 2005, the Timiryazevsky Court of Moscow began hearings on the case of Viktor Korchagin, editor-in-chief of the Rusich magazine, who is charged under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Let us recall that on November 24, 2004, the Timiryazevsky Court found V. Korchagin guilty of inciting religious and national hatred, but released him from serving his sentence due to the expiration of the statute of limitations for the crime.

In an article published in Nezavisimaya Gazeta on March 15, 2005, Emil Pain, professor at the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, considers possible ways of transforming the Russian political regime. The author characterizes the current policy of the Russian government as an attempt to resuscitate the empire and warns against such a path as extremely dangerous by destabilizing the ethno-political situation in the country.

On March 15, 2005, the first court hearing was held in Khabarovsk on charges of Rem Latypov, head of the Khabarovsk branch of the National Bolshevik Party (NBP), of "inciting national hatred and enmity." At the beginning of the hearing, the defendant declared the political nature of the case and submitted a motion to dismiss it. The defendant's request was denied, after which the court heard the testimony of two witnesses. The next meeting is scheduled for April 14th.