On March 21, 2008, the Kaluga Regional Court did not satisfy the cassation appeal against the verdict filed by 8 neo-Nazis convicted by the Obninsk City Court under paragraph "a" of Part 2 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred with the use of violence or with the threat of its use).

On March 21, Deputy Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation Isaac Kalina said that the study of religious culture in school should not lead to the emergence of religious hatred in schools. “I really want people to come to an understanding of the diversity of the world and views through Orthodox culture,” he emphasized.

On March 19, at about 2 am, unknown people set fire to the building of the prayer house of the Kaspiysk Full Gospel Church, Baznica.info reports . At that time there was a prayer group in the church. Two children were injured in the fire. The building received serious damage. Sources Protestant church burned down in Dagestan // Baznica.info. 2008. March 20.

On March 20, 2008, a wounded citizen of Armenia was found in the village of Zavety Ilyich on Vokzalnaya Street near Moscow. The 43-year-old man died immediately after the doctors arrived. The cause of death was a stab wound to the neck. Whether the man was robbed is not reported. A criminal case has been initiated under Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder).

On March 19, 2008, the Jewish community of the city of Ulyanovsk gathered to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Purim in the building of the city's State Technical University. Near the buses that were supposed to carry the guests, a large group of young people gathered, outwardly similar to Nazi skinheads. According to some information, there were about 50-60 of them. They asked the bus drivers about the departure time of the guests.

On March 17, 2008, District Election Commission No. 6 canceled the registration of CPRF candidate Sergei Mikhailov, editor-in-chief of the Saratov Reporter newspaper, on the grounds that he had lost the right to be elected because he was guilty of distributing extremist materials.

In March 2008, the prosecutor of the Kolyvanovsky district of the Novosibirsk region issued a warning to Vyacheslav Verevochkin, a reenactor of historical equipment from the Second World War, about the inadmissibility of extremist activity. On March 16, 2008, in the village of Bolshoy Oesh, a competition was held for jeeps and reconstructed models of tanks, during which a battle was also staged between the Soviet T-34 tank and the German "Prague" tank.

On March 20, 2008, in Moscow, Vyacheslav Rosinsky, First Deputy City Prosecutor, cited official statistics on hate crimes committed since the beginning of the year. He stated that since January 1, "about 40 attacks on people from the North Caucasus and Central Asian regions have been registered in Moscow. 8 murder cases have been solved . " He also noted that "the people involved in such crimes are not related to the official politicized radical groups.

On March 21, 2008, the Pravoberezhny Court of North Ossetia began hearings on the case of accusing the public organization "Voice of Beslan" of extremism. Hearings in the case have already been postponed twice because of the absence of the accuser - the prosecutor of Ingushetia Aushev. At today's meeting, he was also not present, the prosecution was represented by Natalya Evdokimova, the prosecutor for the Southern Federal District from Rostov.

On March 19, 2008, the first meeting of a public group created on the initiative of the Prosecutor General's Office was held in Moscow to work "on interaction with representatives of public human rights organizations, specialists in the field of linguistics, psychology and law" and for "promptly obtaining information about violations of citizens' rights in the field of interethnic relations <...>, expert evaluation of literature and public speeches for the presence of signs of extremism in them"

On March 21, the "Young Russia" movement, together with teachers and students of the Moscow State Technical University. Bauman held a protest against the placement of a Scientology office near the university. The main slogans of the action were "Down with the sect!" and "Sectarians to the bunk, then let's go to couples!". The leader of "Young Russia" M.

March 21, 2008 in St. Petersburg in the conference hall of the public organization "German-Russian Exchange" was an open meeting of Russian and German anti-fascists. At the meeting, the activists discussed the nature of xenophobia in their countries and shared their experiences.

On March 20, 2008, in Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas, mass searches were carried out in the apartments of activists of the banned National Bolshevik Party, as well as in the office of the Nizhny Novgorod Tolerance Support Foundation. The GUVD of the region stated that the searches were carried out as part of a criminal case under Part 2 of Art.

On March 20, 2008, the Moscow Independent Press Center held a press conference on the case of blogger Savva Terentyev, who was accused of inciting hatred against the social group "policemen" based on a comment left in one of his blogs. Participated in the press conference Ernest Mezak, :Memorial; (Komi), journalist; Samson Sholademi, journalist, blogger; Alexander Verkhovsky, center :SOVA;. Ernest Mezak informed the audience that the consideration of S.