On February 25, 2009, the Aleksandrovsky City Court passed a sentence on 22-year-old resident of Aleksandrov Roman Furaev under paragraph "b" of part 1 of Art. 213 (hooliganism committed motivated by national hatred and enmity) and paragraph "e" part 2 of Art. 111 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (deliberately committing grievous bodily harm, dangerous to human life, committed on the basis of national hatred and enmity), who attacked the citizens of Tajikistan in May 2008.

In the city of Kalach-on-Don, Volgograd region, about 30 Orthodox crosses were destroyed at the cemetery. The exact date of the incident has not been established. A criminal case has been initiated under Article 244 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (desecration of the bodies of the dead or destruction, damage or desecration of burial places, tomb structures or cemetery buildings intended for ceremonies in connection with the burial of the dead or their commemoration).

On March 4, 2009, the Pervomaisky Court of Krasnodar reinstated the deadline for appealing against the decision to recognize the materials of the NP "Center for Spiritual and Physical Improvement of Falun Dafa" as extremist. Representatives of "Falun Dafa" were recognized as interested parties who were not informed of the lawsuit in time, and were given the opportunity to appeal the recognition of a number of their materials as extremist. Inc. inf.

On March 5, 2009, the Yoshkar-Ola City Court resumed regular hearings on the case of recognizing Vitaly Tanakov's brochure "The Priest Speaks" as extremist material. The results of the psycholinguistic examination of the brochure, conducted by the Interregional Institute of Independent Forensic Examinations (MINSE) in Moscow, were considered. This, already the sixth examination in a row, showed the presence of signs of extremism in Tanakov's text.

On March 3, 2009, it became known that the publisher Aslambek Ezhaev had been cleared of suspicion of distributing extremist literature. Ezhaev was accused of publishing the book "The Personality of a Muslim in the form that seeks to give it Islam with the help of the Koran and the Sunnah", which was previously recognized as extremist. However, the examination showed that Ezhaev's publication was not identical to the one included in the list of extremist materials.

On March 5, 2009, new additions were made to the Federal List of Extremist Materials on the website of the Ministry of Justice . It included paragraphs. 319 - 321. By March 5, 2009, the list includes 321 items (in fact, 312 items). Update of the Federal List of Extremist Materials dated March 5: Brochure "Russian National Union. Ideology. Actions. Figures and Facts. Program.

On March 3, the editorial office of Portal-Credo.ru received an open letter from the priest of the Orthodox Russian Catacomb Church (ORCC) Alexander Lipin (in September 2008, the ORCC hierarchy united with the ROCA ROCA headed by Bishop (now Metropolitan) Agafangel (Pashkovsky)). In this document, he points out that in the Vologda Oblast, secular and ecclesiastical media are waging a "slanderous information campaign" against the PRCC.

On March 3, 2009, it became known that the publisher Aslambek Ezhaev, for whom a criminal case was initiated on the distribution of extremist literature, was cleared of suspicion. A. Ezhaev was accused of the fact that his publishing house published the book "The Personality of a Muslim in the form that seeks to give it Islam with the help of the Koran and the Sunnah", previously recognized as extremist.

On March 4, 2009, a criminal case was initiated in Yekaterinburg under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organization of the activities of an extremist organization) against Alexei Nikiforov , the leader of the local nazbols. Let us recall that on December 18, 2008 newspapers and personal belongings were confiscated from Aleksey Nikiforov to be checked "for extremism", and he himself was detained.

On February 11, 2009, the SPAS TV channel hosted a round table on the issue of self-defense using firearms. In addition to the TV channel, the discussion was organized by the ultra-right group Russian Image, one of whose leaders, Dmitry Taratorin, heads the channel's political programs directorate.

On February 27, the investigation was completed, and on March 2, 2009, the case against National Bolsheviks Roman Mishurov and Ilya Shunin was submitted to court under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (participation in the activities of an extremist organization). The case was transferred to the Samara Regional Court to determine the territorial jurisdiction.

On March 3, an agreement on cooperation between the diocese and the Birobidzhan branch of Amur State University was signed at the Birobidzhan Diocesan Administration. The document was signed by the director of the branch N.N. Parancher and Bishop Joseph of Birobidzhan and Kuldur. The document provides for cooperation in holding joint charitable, educational and cultural events, as well as in the field of cultural, patriotic, spiritual and moral education of students.

On March 5, 2009, in Ryazan, near the monument to Russian-Armenian friendship near Narodny Boulevard, a group of young people shouted racist threats against a minor native of the Caucasus. According to the prosecutor's office, the group expressed "obvious disrespect" to the teenager, insulted him because of his nationality and dark skin color, threatened him, shouted slogans containing signs of Nazism and threats against people from the Caucasus .

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the transfer of federally owned religious objects "for use for functional purposes" to the stavropegial monastery of the Holy Trinity Sergius Lavra of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. This was reported on March 5 by Sedmitsa.ru . The Trinity-Sergius Lavra was given the buildings of the old Lavra hotel and wine cellars located in Sergiev Posad. In fact, the hotel is already used for its intended purpose.