In early March 2009, the Kirov Regional Court sentenced two minor teenagers (16 and 17 years old) who attacked homeless people in May 2008. As a result of the attacks, two men were killed, the woman managed to escape. One of the defendants was found guilty under Part 4 of Article 111 (intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm, negligently resulting in the death of the victim), p.p.

On March 9, at 13.45 in Tula, the premises of the Tula-Press bookstore were searched by police officers. During the search, about 20 copies of the "Appeal of the All-Russian Officers' Assembly to the personnel and veterans of the Armed Forces, to the Russian and other indigenous peoples of Russia" and " other samples of national-patriotic literature" were seized . The owner of the store, a member of the local branch of the DPNI, Nina Zenkova, was taken to the police station.

On March 9, the Kremlin press service reported that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on measures to restore the historical appearance of the New Jerusalem Monastery. To this end, the Government was instructed to provide the charitable foundation for the restoration of the monastery with subsidies from the federal budget starting from 2009.

The head of the Coordinating Center for Muslims of the North Caucasus, Ismail Berdiev, spoke in favor of the existence in Russia of the Federal List of Extremist Materials. Speaking of books inciting ethnic hatred, I. Berdiev suggested "collecting and burning" them. It should be reminded that the Tatarstan Spiritual Muslim Board proposed to burn the books included in the Federal List. Sources Mufti Berdiev proposes to build bonfires from extremist books // Interfax-religion. 2009. March 10.

The Nizhny Novgorod youth Muslim movement "Nur" calls on the public to create special groups to control the situation with skinhead attacks on citizens of non-Slavic appearance. The movement also calls to pay attention to the problems of violence, religious and national intolerance towards foreign citizens, most of whom are adherents of Islam in general.

Muslim prisoners of general regime colony No. 5 in the city of Vladimir expressed their dissatisfaction with the fact that in this correctional institution Christian prisoners are given much more opportunities to follow their religion than Muslims. They turned to the imam of the Vladimir Cathedral Mosque, Rinat Ibragimov, for help with a request to provide them with literature about Islam, including manuals on how to celebrate Muslim holidays. R.

On March 2, 2009, a criminal case was initiated in Ufa against a local resident S. Maslennikov, who in 2008 left a comment on the Internet site "Ufa Gubernskaya" (UfaGub) that insulted the " indigenous nationality of Bashkiria" . The case was initiated under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity).

On March 5, 2009, a court in Saratov sentenced a man with a swastika tattoo to two days in jail for publicly displaying Nazi paraphernalia. The case was initiated under part 1 of article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (propaganda and public demonstration of Nazi paraphernalia or symbols).

On March 10, 2009, it became known that the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, submitted a bill to the State Duma, according to which it is proposed to exclude Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred). "Is it punishable to publicly scold thieves and bandits, indicating their race, nationality, origin or attitude to religion, or police officers on the basis of nationality or attitude to religion?

On March 2, 2009, National Bolshevik Vladimir Zinkovsky was detained in Nizhny Novgorod for putting up leaflets. A criminal case was initiated against him under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organization of the activities of an extremist organization). According to Zinkovsky, the accusation against him was fabricated, since he did not put up leaflets and does not even know their contents.

Rossvyazkomnadzor in Primorsky Krai did not find extremism in the article "One People - One Constitution", published in the newspaper "Arsenyevskie vesti", for which the publication has already received a warning about the inadmissibility of extremist activity. Rossvyazkomnadzor conducted a linguistic examination of this material, the results of which were sent to the Center for Combating Terrorism of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Far Eastern Federal District.