On March 16, the head of the Spiritual Muslim Board of the Republic of Tatarstan, Gusman-hazrat Iskhakov, and the head of the regional department of the Federal Drug Control Service of the Russian Federation, Ilgiz Minullin, signed a cooperation agreement. According to REGNUM-VolgaInform , "the agreement provides for the participation of clergy in the preventive measures carried out by the republican department of the State Drug Control Service, as well as in work with drug addicts.

Imam of the Moscow region Arslan-Khazrat Sadriev said that the Muslims of the region (according to him, about one and a half million adherents of Islam live in the region) should be represented in the regional public chamber. reports with reference to the Muslim Press news agency As IslamNews.ru , the head of the Council of Muftis of Russia, Mufti Sheikh Ravil Gainutdin, has already addressed a letter on this issue to Valery Chernov, Minister for Territorial Entities of the Moscow Region.

Speaking on March 16 at parliamentary hearings in the Moscow City Duma, Alexander Melnikov, deputy chief of the Moscow police department, said that the law enforcement agencies were hindered from fighting "sects" by the lack of appropriate legal norms. According to NEWSru.com , "A. Melnikov pointed out the problem of the absence of norms in the legislation that would make it possible to hold the organizers of sects liable. In addition, the legislation does not define the concept of 'sect'.

On March 16, 2007, a draft law was submitted to the State Duma prohibiting the use in the media or computer networks of information about the nationality and religious affiliation of victims and offenders. The Moscow City Duma submitted to the Russian Parliament a draft law N 406891-4 on amendments to Art. 4 of the current federal law "On the Mass Media".

On March 15, despite the authorities’ ban, members of the Russian Imperial Movement (RIM) held a prayer stand near the Cathedral of the Savior on Blood in St. Petersburg on the day of the miraculous appearance of the Reigning Icon of the Mother of God and the 90th anniversary of the abdication of Nicholas II from power. The police, after negotiations with RIM activists, chose not to interfere in what was happening.

The bill, which provides for the introduction of a ban on the mention in the media of the national and religious affiliation of victims and suspects of a crime and was finally approved by the Moscow City Duma on March 7, was submitted to the State Duma.

In January 2007, at about 3:00 pm in Orenburg, three teenagers beat up an 18-year-old Uzbek citizen, Bekhzad Rakhmonov, who worked as a shoemaker in the city. Two girls who came along with the attackers filmed everything that was happening on the camera. The victim did not contact the police. On February 17, 2007, under similar circumstances, skinheads beat Alizhun Batirov, the victim's cousin, to death. Sources Velkova N. Skinhead Murder? // ID "Province" (newspaper "Yaik"). 2007. March 7.

that opened at the Sakharov Center The exhibition "Forbidden Art-2006" caused indignation among the Orthodox community.

On March 16, 2007, the prosecutor's office of Blagoveshchensk (Amur Region) opened a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("incitement of national hatred"). The case was opened in connection with a prosecutor's check on the fact that the local branch of the "Union of the Russian People" held a rally in January 2007.