In Khasavyurt (Dagestan), 75-year-old Gitinomagomeddibir Gamzatov, who was engaged in healing and making talismans, was killed. Two unidentified men broke into his house and shot the man in the head and chest. The victim died from his wounds in the ambulance.

On March 16, 2008, four attacks were carried out on citizens of Tajikistan in different parts of Moscow. At six o'clock in the evening in the north of Moscow, near house 38 on Onezhskaya Street, three young people began to insult 20-year-old citizen of Tajikistan Abullaev. After which they beat him and stabbed him with knives. The man is in intensive care.

On February 27, the Suzdal diocesan administration of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (ROAC) received 12 claims filed by the territorial administration of the Federal Property Management Agency to the Arbitration Court of the Vladimir Region. The Federal Property Management Agency demands that historical and cultural monuments of federal significance in Suzdal and the Suzdal region, transferred to the ROAC for free use, be returned under state control.

On March 17, 2008, a criminal case against Konstantin Dushenov, editor-in-chief of Rus Pravoslavnaya, as well as Alexander Malyshev and Pyotr Meleshko, was transferred to the Kirovsky District Court of St. Petersburg. Previously, only Dushenov was charged under Part 2 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred). Now Dushenov, Malyshev and Meleshko are accused, and already under paragraph "c" of Part 2 of Art.

The Investigative Committee of the St. Petersburg Prosecutor's Office referred the case against the newspaper Rus Pravoslavnaya to the Kirovsky District Court.

On March 15, 2008, in Moscow, in an underground passage at the Prazhskaya metro station, four (according to other information three) unknown persons began to insult 27-year-old 3rd year student at Patrice Lumumba University Edashi Festosa, a citizen of Nigeria. After that, the young people began to beat him brutally. The police managed to detain three attackers. They turned out to be workers from one of the capital's furniture factories. Among them were two Muscovites and one native of Penza.

On March 15, a rally was held on Slavyanskaya Square in Moscow in support of teaching “Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture” in schools. The organizers of the action, which brought together about 300 people, were once again the Union of Orthodox Citizens and the Christian Revival Union. The participants of the event adopted a collective resolution calling for the resignation of those Russian officials who do not support the introduction of the military-industrial complex into the school curriculum.

The leadership of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Kostroma Region proposed to provide employees of Orthodox churches, including clergy, with firearms to protect churches from robbers. "We call on the clergy to purchase protective equipment at their own expense, including firearms," told Kommersant .

On March 16, 2008, in Moscow, at house 6 on Maroseyka Street, near the exit of the Kitay-Gorod metro station, a group of neo-Nazis with knives attacked seven young people (according to some information, anti-fascists) going to a punk concert at the Art Garbadzh club . The number of Nazi skinheads was twice the number of punks.