On March 7, 2008, in St. Petersburg, at the Chernyshevskaya metro station, anti-fascists attacked participants in a picket in defense of Serbia. The picket was held by the Russian National Union, the Russian Imperial Union-Order and the Russian Imperial Movement at the US Consulate. After the end of the action, four of its participants went down to the subway, where they were attacked by about 15 people shouting "antifa".

Sochi Mayor Viktor Kolodyazhny announced the need to build Orthodox churches in the areas of Olympic facilities. This refers to Krasnaya Polyana and the Imereti Lowland. Architects will choose the construction sites for temples in the Adler region. Recall that one of the Olympic projects provides for the construction of a mosque, an Orthodox church and a synagogue on the artificial island. Sources Mayor of Sochi proposes to build Orthodox churches next to Olympic venues // Interfax-religion.

On March 12, 2008, at about 19:30 in St. Petersburg, in the courtyard of 1, Novosmolenskaya Street, three unknown young people attacked a second-year student of FINEC, 20-year-old citizen of Ghana Justice Adzhey Ashiya and inflicted about 30 stab wounds on him. The victim was hospitalized at the Mariinsky hospital, where he also had an open craniocerebral injury. His condition is assessed as extremely serious.

In early March, a guilty verdict was passed in Kursk under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of hatred and enmity on national, religious and social grounds, as well as humiliation of human dignity). The ex-candidate for deputy of the Representative Assembly of the Kursk region was found guilty of distributing leaflets of the National Power Party of Russia (NDPR).

On January 18-22 and February 22-25, 2008, Yuri Levada's Analytical Center conducted polls on the attitude of Russians towards religion. 1600 people took part in the survey. 71% of the respondents called themselves Orthodox (in 2003 there were 59%), 5% - Muslims (in 2003 - 4%), 1% - Catholics (in 2003 - 1%) and Protestants (in 2003 - 1%), less than 1% identified themselves as Jews and Buddhists (their number has not changed since 2003). 5% consider themselves atheists (in 2003 - 4%).

For the NGO Bulletin Lawmaking in the State Duma: a Human Rights Analysis [1] By the end of 2007, hardly anyone doubted that the Law on Combating Extremist Activity and pursuant regulations (hereinafter collectively referred to as anti-extremist legislation) are a serious threat to civil and political liberties in Russia.

At the beginning of March 2008, in Kursk, a sentence was passed under part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of hatred and enmity on national, religious and social grounds, as well as humiliation of human dignity) in the case of distribution of leaflets in 2007 February " National Power Party of Russia (NDPR). The accused, a candidate for deputy of the Representative Assembly of the Kursk region, pleaded not guilty.