The initiative group for the creation of the youth democratic anti-fascist movement "Nashi" issued a statement to the media stating that "young fascists, calling themselves representatives of the NBP, beat up 21-year-old activist of the Kaluga anti-fascist movement "NASHI" Andrey Maltsev .

In March 2005, the Volgograd Jewish Community Center, together with the "Or Avner" school, held the "Clean City" action. Youth groups cleared the streets of the city of swastikas and statements inciting ethnic and religious hatred, such as "Kill the khach ...", "Death to the Jews ..." , etc. Similar actions have already taken place in different cities of Russia. However, after the action, the inscriptions began to appear again.

On March 15, 2005, the Irkutsk newspaper Vostochno-Sibirskaya Pravda published Andrey Savchenko's article "Alien Blood" aimed at discrediting Jehovah's Witnesses. The article describes the history of a family conflict in which parents cannot find a common language with their daughter "who has fallen into a sect" (meaning the Jehovah's Witnesses) and try to take away the daughter's grandson, who is brought up by the mother in accordance with her religious views, by contacting the newspaper.

The initiative group "Common Action" published an appeal to Amnesty International. In its appeal, the group expresses "great concern at the rapid growth in the number of persons openly persecuted in the Russian Federation for political and ideological reasons" . The events in Blagoveshchensk, according to human rights activists, have become a sign of the government's readiness for mass repression.

During the conference "Religion and the Church in the Information Society" held in Moscow on March 17, Minister of Information Technologies Leonid Reiman called on religious organizations to promote programs that restrict Internet users' access to information about violence and pornography. This idea was approved by the director of the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician Alexander Chubaryan.

On March 16, 2005, a meeting of the organizing committee of the civil action "Voronezh - the Hero City!" took place. The action began on January 25, 2005, the day of the liberation of Voronezh, on the initiative of youth, human rights and veteran organizations of Voronezh and the Russian Federation. Since March 10, 2005, a number of political parties (among them United Russia and Narodnaya Volya) have declared their support for the initiative to award Voronezh the title of Hero City.

On March 17, 2005, the Irkutsk portal "BABR.Ru" published an article by D. Taevsky "To hit a sectarian", in which the author expresses indignation at the anti-Jehovist publication of "Vostochno-Sibirskaya Pravda" ("VSP"). "The article was written, of course, competently and professionally. It is written in such a way that after the first reading you want to take a stick and go beat the sectarian scoundrels", - D.

Talk about keeping Putin in power is ongoing in the Kremlin, the Federation Council and the State Duma. Few of these conversations become public, but Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov, in an interview published in Izvestia on March 2, admitted that Putin could stay if there was a "real threat" that a "new Fuhrer" with fascist nationalist ideology.

The Irkutsk portal " BABR.ru " responded to an article criticizing Jehovah's Witnesses published in a local newspaper. This is the rarest case when a publication that was incorrect and offensive to the NRM was condemned. See details . Sources Taevsky D. Hit the sectarian // BABR.ru. 2005. March 17.

Employees of the Organized Crime Control Department of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Irkutsk Region, searching an apartment where, according to their information, unregistered natives of Chechnya and Ingushetia lived, found books in Arabic, video and audio cassettes. Part of the seized literature was recognized as extremist.

In the course of the conference "Family and the Church. Cooperation for the Sake of Life" the data of a questionnaire survey of teachers from the city of Volzhsk (Republic of Mari El) were published. More than 80% of the teachers were in favor of teaching "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture" in schools. In 2003, according to Tatyana Yakubovskaya, head of the city education department, 30% of city teachers were supporters of teaching this discipline.

Members of the "Church of Mother Photinia the Light-bearing" community are convinced that President Vladimir Putin is the apostle Paul who came down to earth and came into the world "to convert as many people as possible to the true faith." The community celebrated the anniversary of Putin's second presidential term with a liturgy and a prayer service. The portrait of the president in the temple hangs next to the iconostasis.

online On March 17, 2005, the factory court of the city of Kemerovo delivered a guilty verdict under part 2 of article 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public calls to carry out extremist activities using the media) to a local law student Denis Chuprunov, who published "materials of extremist content" .

Alexander Livchak, the head of the public organization "Archive" Otpiska "applied to the regional police department of the city of Yekaterinburg with a proposal to create a commission for public control over the observance of the rights of detainees.