On March 13, 2009, a member of the Federation Council, Rustem Shiyanov, submitted to the State Duma a draft law "On Amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation." Shiyanov proposes to replace administrative liability for the public display of Nazi symbols with criminal liability.

On March 8, 2009, in Yaroslavl, two young men attacked an Azerbaijani-born taxi driver. The attackers stabbed the taxi driver in the throat and threw the wounded man out of the car. Car thieves abandoned in the Yaroslavl region. Fortunately, the man survived. He managed to get home and reported the attack to the police. The suspects were arrested by police a day after the attack. At least one of them is a nationalist. On March 10, 2009, the court ruled that they should be arrested.

on a native of Azerbaijan were detained in Yaroslavl Suspects of an attack . On March 10, 2009, the court ruled that they should be arrested. The attackers were identified by the victims at the confrontation. One of the detainees partially confessed to his deed, the other does not consider himself guilty. One of the arrested young people is a 17-year-old resident of Istra near Moscow, the other is a resident of Yaroslavl. They work for a charitable foundation.

On March 17, an agreement on cooperation was signed between the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Bashkortostan and the leaders of "traditional" religious organizations in the region.

On March 15, in Moscow, in the Tsaritsyno district, on Bakinskaya street, a 50-year-old Israeli citizen was severely beaten. The victim was hospitalized in serious condition. The beaten man was found in the entrance of the house by local residents and the police were called. According to the police, "an ambulance team that arrived at the scene found a man in the entrance of the house, who was unconscious in an extremely serious condition. The victim had a broken head .

At the end of February 2009, a 40-year-old native of Tajikistan was killed in Kemerovo. The cause of death was multiple stab wounds. The sister of the deceased, Khatun Kadamova, said that the Tajik community believes that Nazi skinheads killed him. The body of the deceased was delivered to his relatives in Dushanbe. Sources Difficulties without translation // Russian Newsweek. 2009. March 16.

On March 17, the Yoshkar-Ola city court satisfied the claim of the city prosecutor's office and recognized Vitaly Tanakov's brochure "The Priest Speaks" as extremist literature. in 2006 The author of the brochure was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("inciting national and religious hatred"). In August 2007, the Yoshkar-Ola city court already recognized the brochure "The Priest Says" as extremist.

We publish the speech of the representative of the SOVA Center at the round table "Combating Anti-Semitism: Main Trends and Challenges in the OSCE Region", held in Vienna on March 17, 2009. Manifestations of anti-Semitism in Russia and opposition to it by the state Manifestations of anti-Semitism Anti-Semitism is the ideological core for many radical nationalist groups in Russia, but is not the dominant manifestation of xenophobia.

On March 10, it became known that the administrator of the Ryazan diocese, Archbishop Pavel (Ponomarev), suggested that the director of the museum-reserve, Olga Krechetova, vacate the exhibition hall “For the Glory of the Fatherland” within the next few days to begin repair work there. In September 2008, the hall was transferred by order of the Federal Property Management Agency to the jurisdiction of the diocese. The museum was not provided with any premises to replace the seized premises.

LLC "Unified Settlement and Cash Center" (ERCC) of Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod Region, printed 120 thousand forms to pay for donations for the construction of a church in honor of St. Seraphim of Sarov. 100,000 of these forms will be mailed to residents of the city along with receipts for payment of utility bills. Another 20,000 will go to payment points for these services and to an Orthodox parish. The forms already contain the bank details of the Parish of Seraphim of Sarov.

On March 17, 2009, a round table "Combating Anti-Semitism: Key Trends and Challenges in the OSCE Region" was held in Vienna, organized by the OSCE/ODIHR. Three thematic sessions were held within the framework of the round table.

In early March 2009, the central office of the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications and Mass Communications (Rossvyazkomnadzor) (former Rossvyazohrankultura - ed.) issued a warning for "using the media to carry out extremist activities" of the editorial office of the Slavyanskoe Veche newspaper. A warning was issued for the publication of articles by K.

Archpriest Vladimir Sorokin, rector of the Prince Vladimir Cathedral in St. Petersburg, expressed concern about the plans to build the Embankment of Europe complex between Tuchkov and Birzhevoy bridges. According to the priest, the new complex will spoil the view of the cathedral: it will be possible to admire it only through the "species corridor" in a multi-storey building.

March 13, 2009 at about 21:30 in Kolpino (St. Petersburg), on Trudyushchiy Boulevard, two unknown teenagers cut a swastika on the left hand of a 14-year-old girl, a 7th grade student of one of the local schools, with a razor blade, and cut off her hair . The victim went to the children's hospital and reported the incident to the police. An investigation is underway, the issue of initiating a criminal case is being decided.

The chairman of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Lyudmila Alekseeva, who returned from a trip to the republics of the North Caucasus, spoke in favor of ending the practice of transporting Muslims convicted of participating in terrorist groups to regions with a predominantly Christian population. According to the human rights activist, such prisoners are subjected to torture and inhuman treatment away from home.