On the evening of March 25, 2008, an action was held in St. Petersburg in memory of Alexei Krylov, who was killed by the Nazis on March 16 in Moscow. About one and a half hundred anti-fascists took part in the procession along Nevsky Prospekt from Alexander Nevsky Square to Vosstaniya Square.

On March 25, 2008, in St. Petersburg, a 21-year-old native of Buryatia was killed on the Yablonevka railway platform (according to other information, a native of Yakutia on the Yachtennaya platform). The woman was stabbed 16 times, most of them in the back. A criminal case has been initiated under Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder). Among the versions being considered by the investigation is murder motivated by national hatred.

On March 26, 2008, in the Kirovsky Court of St. Petersburg, a trial began in the case of Konstantin Dushenov, editor-in-chief of the Rus Pravoslavnaya newspaper, and his accomplices Alexander Malyshev and Petr Meleshko, who are accused under paragraph "c" of Part 2 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting national hatred using the media, committed by an organized group). Recall that all three are accused of distributing the film "Russia with a knife in the back.

Residents of Baltiysk, Kaliningrad region, are outraged by the construction of an Orthodox church on the site of a German cemetery. Construction began recently, although the permit was issued by the diocese 15 years ago. "Before the war, on the site where the temple is now being built, there was a German cemetery," Valery Limonov, director of the Western Citadel public fund for historical research in Kaliningrad, told Izvestiya.

Participants of the Yekaterinburg Initiative program, which was founded by the World Russian People's Council (VRNS), the Russian Entrepreneur Foundation and the Return Church public project, made an open appeal to the country's leadership. The appeal contains a call to remove from the map of Russia the names of people related to the execution of the royal family.

Aleksey Tarushkin, a lawyer at the St. Petersburg Islamic Cultural Center, obtained through the court the initiation of a criminal case on the fact of the search on April 6, 2007.

On March 21, 2008, a criminal case was initiated in Khabarovsk under Part 2 of Art. 136 (violation of equality of rights and freedoms of man and citizen, committed with the use of his official position) against a college teacher for discrimination against religious students.

On March 26, in the Kirovsky Court of St. Petersburg, a trial began on the case of Konstantin Dushenov, editor-in-chief of the Rus Pravoslavnaya newspaper. He, as well as Petr Meleshko and Alexander Malyshev, are charged under Art.

In March 2008, two more teenagers were detained suspected of murdering a Turkish citizen. All four suspects were charged under paragraphs. "g" and "l" part 2 tbsp. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy based on national hatred). Let us remind you that two teenagers were detained back in January. All young people are residents of the Leninsky and Kirovsky districts of Novosibirsk.

force On March 11, 2008, the verdict of the Neryungri City Court of December 3, 2007 came into , according to which 23-year-old D. Manweiler and 21-year-old A.V. Ponomarev were convicted under part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting national hatred ) and sentenced each to one year of imprisonment with serving a sentence in a colony-settlement.

On March 5, 2008, Radmir Sagitov, a cadet of the Novosibirsk Military Institute of the Ministry of Defense, a native of Bashkortostan, committed suicide. In letters to his parents, the deceased complained about bullying by other cadets, about the fact that his mobile phone was taken away from him, but did not want to leave the institute. Against five cadets of the institute, suspected of bullying Sagitov, a criminal case was initiated under Art.

Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Boris Gryzlov announced the need to transfer the funds of the Zvenigorod Historical and Architectural Art Museum from the territory of the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery to a specially built building in Zvenigorod. “In the close proximity of the monastery and the museum, along with positive aspects, there are problems. The further development of the museum is hampered by the size of the premises it occupies in the monastery,” said B.