On March 11, 2009, the verdict of the Meshchansky District Court came into force against two Muscovites convicted under paragraph “a” of Part 2 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of hatred or enmity) and those sentenced to fines. The Moscow City Court did not satisfy the appeal against the sentence of 46-year-old Vladimir Belov and 47-year-old Dmitry Sukhanov: they were sentenced to pay fines of 400 and 350 thousand rubles, respectively.

On March 12, Deputy Minister of Education and Science Yuri Sentyurin spoke at a round table of the State Duma Committee on Affairs of Public Associations and Religious Organizations on the topic “New in the legislation on religious organizations.” He said that Rosobrnadzor had prepared a document on equalizing theological academic degrees with secular ones.

On March 11, 2009, at the old Jewish cemetery in Petrozavodsk, damage was found to the Menorah monument erected in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. Recall that this is not the first desecration of the Menorah, built at the expense of the Jewish community. A criminal case has been opened. Sources Holocaust memorial damaged // AEN.Ru. 2009. March 12.

On March 11, at the old Jewish cemetery of Petrozavodsk, the memorial sign "Menorah", installed in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, was damaged. A criminal case has been opened on the fact of vandalism. attacked by vandals before The cemetery has been . Sources Unidentified persons damaged the memorial sign "Menorah" in Petrozavodsk // Interfax-religion. 2009. March 13.

On March 13, 2009, it became known that 5 suspects had been arrested in connection with the attack on two teenagers. On February 15, 2009, a criminal case was initiated under paragraph "d" part 2 of Art. 111 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm, committed out of hooligan motives). Later, the case was reclassified to Art. 30 hours 3 art.

On March 11, 2009, the management of the Zlatoust Metallurgical Plant applied to the prosecutor's office with a request to check the legality of the actions of the employees of the rolling shop number 1, who had gone on a hunger strike the day before. Management, among other things, accuses its employees of inciting social hatred.

On February 2, the Laishevsky District Court of Tatarstan satisfied the claim of the republican department of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on the liquidation of the Kazan Metropolis of the True Orthodox Church as a legal entity.

Restoration of the Estonian Lutheran Church of St. John (John) in St. Petersburg has begun, the demolition of which was feared by the public in 2007 . On March 12, with the participation of Andres Põder, Chief Bishop of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church, and representatives of the Republic of Estonia, the capsule-laying ceremony took place. Restoration work is carried out by the Estonian construction company "Facio Ehituse AS".

On March 12, 2009, a search was conducted in the office of the "Russian Public Movement" in Moscow, during which posters, a computer and a copy of the pamphlet of the leader of the ROD Konstantin Krylov "17 Questions to a Russian Nationalist with Answers" were seized. The brochure, published in an edition of 999 copies, was sent for examination in order to check for signs of extremism.

On March 9, 2009, in St. Petersburg, on the day of the celebration of the Jewish holiday Purim, Nazi skinheads attacked student Yakov Podolny, the son of an employee of the Jewish agency Sokhnut, on Nevsky Prospekt. When Y. Podolny and a friend were crossing the avenue, he was attacked by two young people. According to eyewitnesses, the attackers were dressed in traditional Nazi skinhead clothing.

March 11, 2009 in Novouralsk (Sverdlovsk region) at the Central Public Library opened the Center for Tolerance. The center appeared within the framework of an international project and became the tenth of those that appeared in Russia, Belarus and Latvia. The organization will promote human rights, humanism and tolerance, as well as educational activities against hatred, xenophobia and extremism.

On March 12, 2009, the guilty verdict of the Avtozavodsky District Court of the city of Tolyatti (Samara Region) against six Nazi skinheads who attacked anti-fascists in September 2008 entered into force. Alexander Ilyin, Igor Kukushkin, Semyon Masyagin, Alexander Lyapin, Denis Saldaev and Vasily Eremchev were found guilty under part 2 of article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (hooliganism committed by a group of persons by prior agreement).

On February 26, 2009, the Prosecutor's Office of Syktyvkar (Komi Republic) sent a criminal case on a nationalist attack to the court for consideration . Nikolai Kochetkov is charged under paragraph "b" part 2 of Art. 115 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (causing minor bodily harm based on ethnic hatred), and Pavel Gizatullin - under paragraph "a" part 2 of Art. 115 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (causing slight bodily harm out of hooligan motives).