In early March, during a search in Detachment No. 3 in strict regime penal colony No. 4, located in the village of Sheregesh, Tashtagolsky District, Kemerovo Region, the head of the operational unit, Captain Glekov, beat several Muslims and smashed their player with records of Muslim sermons and the Koran. The incident was reported to the head of the GUFSIN, General Dolzhantsev, but no sanctions were taken against Captain Glekov.

Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, deputy head of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, called on the Moscow authorities to prevent a gay parade from being held in the capital. This statement was made in connection with the creation of the organizing committee of the gay parade, which planned the procession for May 27 - the day of the 14th anniversary of the abolition of criminal prosecution for homosexuality in Russia.

On March 3-4, 2007 in Novosibirsk the Center for Interethnic Relations held a training seminar "Network of public organizations against xenophobia". The Committee for Culture and Art of the Novosibirsk Mayor's Office took an active part in the organization of the seminar, namely the chief specialist in national cultural activities Marina Dobrovolskaya and the chief specialist in cultural and leisure activities Larisa Fisher.

On February 27-28, 2007 in Omsk a training seminar on the topic "Interaction between national organizations and authorities" was held. According to its ethnic composition, the Omsk region is one of the brightest and most distinctive subjects of the Russian Federation. Representatives of more than 130 ethnic groups live here, most of which have created national-cultural associations that successfully participate in the life of the region.

Participants in the public project "Return", which includes representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church, appealed to the Moscow authorities and the leadership of the Russian Railways with a request to return to the Leningrad station its pre-revolutionary name - Nikolaevsky. In addition, the authors of the appeal propose to return the name "Nikolaevskaya" to the Oktyabrskaya railway.

The head of the Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church, Metropolitan Kornily, took the initiative to create a censorship and supervision committee to combat vices in various areas of public life.

On March 17, a synagogue in Voronezh was desecrated. Unidentified people covered the walls of the building with extremist inscriptions and painted a swastika. The prosecutor's office of the Leninsky district of Voronezh opened a criminal case under part 1 of article 214 (vandalism) and part 1 of article 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public calls for extremist activity). Sources Local synagogue desecrated in Voronezh // Interfax-religion. 2007. March 19.

The monument to the janitor, erected in St. Petersburg on Ostrovsky Square, opposite the building occupied by the housing committee of the city administration, provoked protests from the Orthodox community. The monument is a figure of a bearded man in an apron, leaning on a shovel. According to believers, the handle of a shovel, intersecting with a horizontal bar, forms an inverted cross - a satanic symbol.

On March 17, a meeting of the section on human rights education of the Expert Council under the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation was held, dedicated to teaching human rights issues in secondary schools.

In a letter to US Ambassador to Russia William Burns, Metropolitan Kirill (Gundyaev) of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, head of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, expressed his disagreement with criticism from the authors of the report of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom.

On March 20, 2007 in Moscow, on Chertanovskaya street, three unidentified men dressed in black attacked an Azerbaijani citizen. The attackers inflicted 13 stab wounds on the Azerbaijani. The victim died before the ambulance arrived. An investigation is underway. Sources Moscow police are investigating a murder case // CITY-FM. 2006. March 20.