On March 5, 2008, the Pravoberezhny District Court of the city of Beslan began preliminary hearings on the case of extremism, which was discovered in one of the statements of the "Voice of Beslan", published three years ago.

On March 6, 2008, in the city of Kem (Karelia), a criminal case was sent to the district court for consideration on the merits against a minor teenager S. (born in 1991), who in November 2007 drew a swastika and applied it to the walls of the city's houses "obscene and offensive inscriptions." He is charged with Part 1 of Article 214 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“vandalism”).

A conflict arose within the Old Believer community of Ulan-Ude, caused by the fact that in October 2007, priests Alexander Shestakov and Elisey Eliseev announced their withdrawal from the subordination of the Metropolis of Moscow and All Rus' (ROC). They decided to reorganize the community and make it an independent Old Orthodox Church of Christ. Then they began to prepare documents for the reorganization. Other community leaders urge believers to remain faithful to the Moscow Metropolis.

In early March 2008, in Chelyabinsk, Nazi skinheads started a fight in the courtyard of the Overdrive rock store. One person died. He was beaten by Nazi skinheads, he fell and hit his temple on the concrete. Three young people, informals, were hospitalized and ended up in intensive care. The Internal Affairs Directorate of Chelyabinsk confirmed this incident, but said that they did not know anything about the victims and the murder.

According to the preliminary results of the elections to the municipal assemblies of Moscow, which took place on March 2, 2008, the nationalists managed to get only a few of their candidates . district through the Sokol passed The head of DPNI-TV, Boris Smirnov, (as of March 6, 2008, the results have not been published, right-wing websites report the victory).

In the Sverdlovsk region, the activities of several groups of Nazi skinheads have been suppressed. In particular, the names "Volkssturm", "Patriots", "Skinheads", "ZIG-88" are mentioned. This was reported by the prosecutor of the Sverdlovsk region Yuri Ponomarev and the head of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate for the Sverdlovsk region Mikhail Nikitin on March 6, 2008.

On the night of March 5, unidentified people smashed the window of the Tomsk synagogue with stones. Rabbi Levi Kamenetsky of Tomsk told a Jewish News Agency correspondent that an official complaint had been filed with the police about the attack. Recall that this synagogue has already been desecrated . Sources Lev Shkolnik. Synagogue desecrated by vandals // Jewish News Agency. 2008. March 6.

The Slavic Legal Center, together with the Department for External Church Relations of the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians - Baptists, begins monitoring the dissemination in print and electronic media of materials that "discredit the good name of Christian churches and their ministers", and also contribute to inciting religious enmity and hatred towards Protestants, in in particular, the Baptists, reports on March 6 "Baznica.info" . The information will be carefully analyzed.

The concept of new educational standards was discussed at the Russian Academy of Education. At the same time, the proposals of the Russian Orthodox Church were not taken into account, Interfax reported on March 6. Let us recall that the Russian Orthodox Church proposed to introduce a component of “Spiritual and Moral Culture” into educational standards, within the framework of which separate training in the basics of “traditional” religions was assumed.

On the night of March 5, 2008 in Tomsk, unidentified persons smashed the window of the city synagogue with stones. Police officers failed to find witnesses to this criminal action. Rabbi of Tomsk Levi Kamenetsky said that an official statement had been filed with the police on the fact of the attack. Recall that this is not the first attack on the synagogue in the city. Sources Schoolboy L. Vandals desecrated the synagogue // AEN. 2008. March 6.