On March 12, 2009, the trial in the case of Mikhail Rodoshkevich, the leader of a group of Nazi skinheads, began in the Novosibirsk Regional Court. He was charged under Art. 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organization of a criminal community), Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity), Art. 162 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (robbery).

On March 12, 2009, the prosecutor's office of Ufa (Bashkiria) sent instructions to the city's Internet providers to close access to a number of Internet sites "containing extremist materials." Among these sites are "Ahmadov.biz", "Chechen-Press", "Chechen-Times", "Jamaat Sharia", "Imam-TV" and "Caucasus Center". According to experts, the materials on the sites “contain calls to incite ethnic hatred.” 11 Internet providers in Ufa stopped providing access to these sites.

On March 11, 2009, a racist attack was carried out in Novosibirsk against a native of Uzbekistan. The incident occurred in the premises of one of the bars in the Kirovsky district of the city, where the injured man had dinner with his friend. One of the drunken visitors, seeing a man with a non-Slavic appearance, grabbed a table knife, and, putting it to the throat of the victim, began to shout that he would kill him.

On March 12, 2009, the Novokuibyshevsk City Court of the Samara Region ordered the providers Progress-IT LLC and InterCom LLC to limit access to the sites www.pirotek.info and www.steelrats.net by adding IP addresses to the border router. Thus, the claim of the Samara prosecutor's office was satisfied. The websites contained instructions for making homemade explosives.

On March 11, 2009, the prosecutor of the Industrial District of Khabarovsk approved the indictment in the case under Part 2 of Art. 136 (violation of equality of rights and freedoms of man and citizen, committed with the use of official position) in relation to the teacher of socio-economic disciplines of the Far Eastern State Interregional Industrial and Economic College Vladislav Radchenko.

The Center for Controlling Activities for the Dissemination of Dianetics and Scientology sent a statement to the Prosecutor of Udmurtia. In this document, Scientologists express indignation at the fact that on the website of the prosecutor's office of the republic, Ron Hubbard's books are called materials that incite hatred or enmity. The statement indicated that some media reprinted this message with distortions. In particular, the site "Komsomolskaya Pravda" wrote that R.

On March 12, 2009, the body of a 30-year-old citizen of Uzbekistan with stab wounds to the abdominal cavity was found near house N11 on Borodinskaya Street in St. Petersburg. According to the preliminary version of the investigation, the man could have been killed in another place - car tire prints were found next to the body. As noted in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, during the investigation, the "extremist version" was checked, among other things.

On March 11, 2009, the Prosecutor of the Krasnodar Territory filed a petition with the Pervomaisky District Court of Krasnodar to recognize three Watchtower magazines and the book Draw Close to Jehovah as extremist materials. The basis for the statement was a study conducted on behalf of the FSB Department for the Krasnodar Territory by the chief expert of the Forensic Center of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate for the Krasnodar Territory, Ph.D.

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation intends to amend the federal law on freedom of conscience and religious associations. They will concern the regulation of missionary activity.

On March 11, 2009, the investigating authorities of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for the Ulyanovsk Region initiated a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting national hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity) on the fact that a 45-year-old resident of Ulyanovsk posted nationalist materials on the Internet.

In early March, a delegation of Krasnoyarsk Muslims headed by Mufti of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Gayaz-Khazrat Fatkullin, at the invitation of the head of the Krasnoyarsk Catholic community, visited the local monastery. “At first, we thought that we would feel some discomfort in communicating with Muslims, since such meetings are held infrequently.

On March 12, 2009, in the town of Balakhna, Nizhny Novgorod region, a group of young people attacked a passer-by with a “non-Slavic appearance”. On st. Engels was beaten by S. V. Grigoryan. The attackers knocked the man to the ground and kicked him in the body and head. The attack became known in August 2010 in connection with the announcement of the sentencing in this case.

At the beginning of March 2009, reports appeared in the Russian media about nationalist statements by Anastasia Prikhodko, representing Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest. The singer declared her dislike for “blacks and Chinese”, and also spoke extremely unflatteringly about the dark-skinned participant of the “Star Factory” Cornelia Mango. “Actually, Hitler was right about one thing. He fought for the Aryan race, for Germans to live in Germany.