On the evening of March 21, in Nizhny Novgorod, in the Nizhny Novgorod region, an 18-year-old citizen of Malaysia, a student of the Nizhny Novgorod State Academy of Architecture and Civil Engineering, was attacked. A group of teenagers (about 10 people) attacked a foreigner at a tram stop. The student suffered minor bodily injuries, in addition, the attackers sprayed him in the face with a gas canister.

On January 16, 2007, Komsomolskaya Pravda published an article by Yuri Snegirev "Dalai Lama XIV: I have been to Russia. My rosary whistled there!" . The article aroused indignation at the Union of Journalists of Kalmykia and the Buddhist community Mindrolling, who appealed to the Public Collegium for Press Complaints.

Summary The most relevant aspects of the implementation of freedom of conscience: Legislation concerning religious organizations Issues related to places of worship Government patronage of religious organizations Other examples of discrimination The situation in the army and in the penitentiary system Conflicts around the subject "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture" Abuses in countering extremism Lack of protection against defamation and attacks Abuses in the defense of religious feelings The

Thirty Muslim prisoners serving sentences in colony No. 5 in Sviyazhsk (Tatarstan) went on a hunger strike.

On March 21, 2007, the Mari El Supreme Court upheld the verdict of the Yoshkar-Ola City Court against Vitaly Tanakov. Recall that on December 25, 2006, V. Tanakov was sentenced under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("inciting national and religious hatred") to 120 hours of compulsory labor for distributing the brochure "The Priest Speaks". The defense tried to appeal this verdict, but the Supreme Court of the Republic rejected the cassation appeal.

On March 20, the Nizhny Novgorod diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church and the division of the courier service in the Volga Federal District signed a cooperation agreement. The document was signed by the head of the diocesan office, Fr. Sergiy Alipov and the head of the courier service, Colonel Vladimir Khmelnitsky.

In St. Petersburg, from March 15 to March 20, six suspects were detained in organizing the explosion at the McDonald's restaurant on February 18. According to a representative of law enforcement agencies, “all the detainees are young people, residents of St.

On March 20, in Nizhny Novgorod, Interior Ministry officials confiscated the print run of the March of Dissent propaganda newspaper. The operatives of the Organized Crime Control Department demanded that the employees of the Nizhny Novgorod Printer printing house, who delivered the circulation to the customer, provide several issues of the newspaper in order to check them for signs of extremism.

On March 20-21, a meeting of the delegation of the Conference of European Churches with the leadership of the DECR MP took place in Moscow. The focus of the audience was the problem of human rights and its moral dimension. According to Blagovest-info , "the CEC includes 125 Christian Churches of various denominations from 37 European countries.

On March 22, the Independent Press Center prepared for the first time by the SOVA Center presented the annual report on the implementation of freedom of conscience in Russia. The press conference was attended by director of the SOVA Center Alexander Verkhovsky, head of the organization Teachers for Freedom of Conviction Vsevolod Lukhovitsky, co-chairman of the Slavic Legal Center Anatoly Pchelintsev.

On March 16, 2007, a bill was introduced into the State Duma to amend Article 4 of the Law of the Russian Federation “On the Mass Media”. Art.

On the evening of March 21, 2007, a picket against racism was held in Moscow on Pushkin Square. The action, which lasted from 18:00 to 19:00, was organized by the Anti-Fascist Union. His initiative was supported by activists of the Anti-War Club and the Left Anti-Fascist Front. The picket was timed to coincide with the International Day for the Fight against Racial Discrimination.

According to the press service of the Slavic Legal Center, due to the intervention of the authorities of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the holding of the First Festival of Author's Songs in the Yakut language was actually disrupted. The organizer of the festival was the Association of Churches of Evangelical Christians of the Republic (ACEX), which concluded the necessary agreement in advance and rented the Cultural Center of the Yakut State University.