On March 16, 2009, one of the Magistrates' Courts in St. Petersburg considered an administrative case against Konstantin Khristoforov, who was detained by police officers the day before for publicly displaying the national Bolshevik flag in black and white. Khristoforov was acquitted. Recall that this is not the first time that the courts in St. Petersburg do not support similar wrongful accusations from the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the prosecutor's office.

The Orthodox community of Magadan expressed concern about "attempts to introduce in the region the institution of the so-called" juvenile justice ". "Methods of" juvenile justice "are unacceptable for the Russian family. We urge parents and the public not to remain indifferent to this problem and to protect the traditions of Russian education," the participants of the IX Magadan Christmas Educational Readings say in their appeal.

On March 14, Irina Kudryavtseva, chairman of the Volga-Vyatka Bank of the Sberbank of Russia, handed over to the Diveevsky Monastery the old building of the Sarov branch of the Sberbank of the Russian Federation. The monastic authorities are planning to place a hotel for pilgrims in this building. Sources The old building of the Sarov branch of the Savings Bank of the Russian Federation was transferred to the Holy Trinity Seraphim-Diveevsky Monastery // Website of the Nizhny Novgorod diocese.

of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation "On the State Religious Expertise" was published On March 13, the order . This document approves a new procedure for conducting state religious expertise (and recognizes the procedure established in 1998 as invalid). The document emphasizes that the examination will henceforth have a comprehensive character.

In February 2009, in the Vologda Oblast, criminal proceedings began against three people who participated in the production and distribution of the newspaper Drugoy Cherepovets, in some of whose materials the investigation finds signs of incitement to hatred. On February 10, 2009, a criminal case was initiated in Cherepovets against the National Bolshevik A. M. Timoshkin, who is charged with Part 1 of Art.

March 11, 2009 in Nizhny Novgorod at about 22:00 near one of the houses on Friendship Street, two neo-Nazis attacked a citizen of Uzbekistan I. Asadov. One of the attackers knocked the man down, the second began to stab him with a knife. After that. as the man began to loudly call for help, the attackers fled. The victim was taken to the hospital with chest and shoulder injuries. Later it became known that activists of a certain " Nizhny Novgorod Autonomous Combat Cell " D. Korobkin and A.

On March 12, 2009, brothers Alexander and Dmitry Vorony filed a cassation appeal against the court decision that sentenced them to one year in prison under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (participation in the activities of a banned organization) and Art. 319 (insulting a representative of authority). The brothers were accused of distributing the newspaper Trudodni and supporting the National Bolshevik website.

On March 16, the Orthodox Corps of the Nashi youth movement again organized a picket near the editorial office of Novaya Gazeta, demanding to refute the slander against Patriarch Alexy II, allegedly contained in an article by one of the newspaper's journalists.

On March 13, 2009, from the words of the governor of the Ryazan region, Oleg Kovalev, it became known that suspects were detained in the case of the explosion of the monument to Lenin. "People involved in the explosion of the Lenin monument near the Ryaztsvetmet plant and the burning of a chapel in the Moscow region have already been found," the governor said.

Rosokhrankultura is concerned about construction in the area of ​​the Kazan Kremlin. Dmitry Musin, head of the Rosokhrankultura department for the Volga Federal District, in his statement pointed out that the construction of the building of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food is contrary to federal law.

March 13, 2009 in Nizhny Novgorod on Lenin Avenue was killed 19-year-old native of Kyrgyzstan T. Akmatov. He was attacked by two men armed with a knife and a sharpener. The man was first tracked down, escorted to a deserted place, then attacked from behind. First, they stabbed the neck, then several blows to the chest area - about 10 stab wounds in total. The victim managed to escape and run to the bus stop, from where passers-by called him an ambulance.

On March 15, representatives of radical left organizations (the Movement of Civil Initiatives (DGI), the Federation of Socialist Youth (FSM), the Vanguard of the Red Youth (AKM), the Left Front and others) held an authorized picket near the Novodevichy Convent in St. Petersburg. They began collecting signatures in defense of the monastery against high - rise construction . The left demands to resume the prosecutor's check.

On March 15, 2009, the first events of the campaign against xenophobia, organized by the coalition of city public organizations "Xenophobia.NET!", began in St. Petersburg. Until March 29, inclusive, the city will host about twenty events, discussion platforms and film screenings against manifestations of nationalism, intolerance and homophobia. On March 15, after opening speeches on Vladimirskaya Square, a street theater spoke out against homophobia.

The President of Ingushetia, Yunus-bek Yevkurov, instructed the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the muftiate not to persecute young people on religious grounds on the grounds that young people "do not go to the mosque with everyone else." "It is customary to say that they are Wahhabists, but I don't think they are Wahhabists. They just have their own opinion," Yunus-bek Yevkurov said.

On March 11, 2009, the Presnensky Court of Moscow sentenced the National Bolshevik Dmitry Mants for participating in a rally in the reception room of the Foreign Ministry. Manets was found guilty under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 (participation in the activities of an extremist organization) and Part 1 of Art.