In March 2008, the Orenburg prosecutor's office opened a criminal case against four citizens who, in November 2006, pasted leaflets with nationalistic content on the monument to V.I. Lenin in one of Orenburg's public gardens. According to which article a criminal case was initiated, it is not reported. Sources Criminal case against four citizens initiated in Orenburg // Oren.Ru. 2008. March 11.

On March 7, 2008, in Samara, by a court decision, was declared extremist and banned. the Muslim site "Islam as it is" This site hosted a brochure "Novruz Holiday and Islamic Doctrine", the text of which states that the Navruz holiday has pagan roots and therefore should not be celebrated by devout Muslims.

On March 11 , the Yuri Levada Analytical Center published research data on the topic “Church and State.” The study paid attention to the issue of the presence of religious knowledge in the curriculum of secular secondary schools. According to the survey, 60% of Russians believe that, at the request of students or their parents, the history of religion and the foundations of religious morality can be studied at school. 20% said that there should be no place for religion at all in schools.

On the afternoon of March 9, 2008, on the Zamoskvoretskaya line of the Moscow metro between the Kolomenskaya and Teatralnaya stations, several Nazi skinheads aged 16-18 began to brutally beat an African. The carriage was mostly elderly people. The girl who was riding in the same carriage shouted: "Stop!" - after which they threw a bottle of beer at her, but she dodged.

On March 7, 2008, a series of neo-Nazi attacks took place in the southwest of Moscow. In all cases, the victims were people of Asian appearance. The first attack was committed at 18:30 near house 2 on Profsoyuznaya Street, next to the Profsoyuznaya metro station. Nazi skinheads attacked with knives a Tajik citizen working in Moscow in one of the DEZs. The man was stabbed several times in the chest. The attackers fled the scene of the crime.

At the beginning of March 2008, an open letter to the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin from representatives of the scientific community appeared on the Internet.

On March 9, a ROAC priest, rector of the parish in the name of the Sovereign Icon of the Mother of God in Belorechensk, Krasnodar Territory, Alexei Gorin, was killed. On suspicion of committing this crime, the eldest son of A. Gorin was detained. According to investigators, in a state of passion, he inflicted several wounds on his father, one of which turned out to be fatal.

On March 11 , Nezavisimaya Gazeta reported that at the regular session of the Novosibirsk City Council, the deputies rejected a draft decision on the establishment of a special commission to analyze citizens' appeals associated with religious organizations.