On March 19, the Ordzhonikidzevsky District Court of Yekaterinburg declared the warning about the inadmissibility of extremist activity issued by the prosecutor's office to the organization of Jehovah's Witnesses in the city of Asbest illegal. In November 2008, the Ordzhonikidze court recognized the same warning as legitimate.

The prosecutor's office of the Republic of Bashkortostan refused to open a criminal case on the fact of embezzlement of charitable funds for the construction of a cathedral mosque in Ufa due to the absence of corpus delicti. Earlier, the Chamber of Control and Accounts of Bashkiria established that the general contractor OOO Zhilstroykompleksnab (ZhSKS) spent 106 million "for its own needs." Most of these funds were transferred by large enterprises, including state-owned ones.

On March 20, 2009, it became known that a case of nationalistically motivated vandalism was sent to the Achinsk City Court (Krasnoyarsk Territory) . A 20-year-old resident of Achinsk, who was detained earlier, was charged under Part 2 of Art. 214 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (vandalism motivated by ethnic hatred).

On March 4, the Krasnodar Regional Court overturned the conviction of the Armavir City Court against Andrey Mozzhegorov. Recall that he was found guilty under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting national, racial, religious hatred) for distributing the brochure of the monk Athanasius "Give us the Motherland!". The case was returned to the regional prosecutor's office, since A. Mozzhegorov distributed the brochure before it was recognized as extremist.

On March 19, 2009, in Yekaterinburg, a young man beat up a native of Tajikistan. A group of young people entered the store on Weiner Street. They sat down on the floor, taking out the liquor they had brought with them. A 47-year-old store security guard reprimanded them, after which one of the young people, an 18-year-old student of one of the city's universities, attacked the man, shouting "Russia is for the Russians!" and beat him up. On the same day, a criminal case was opened under Art.

In Chuvashia, the court found seven residents of Novocheboksarsk aged 17 to 21 guilty under paragraphs. "a" and "c" part 2 of Art. 282 (incitement of national and religious hatred by an organized group with the use of violence), Ch. 1.2 Art. 213 (hooliganism with the use of weapons or objects used as weapons, committed by a group of persons by prior agreement or by an organized group), art. 214 (vandalism), art. 116 (beatings).

On March 20, 2009, a citizen of Uzbekistan was killed on Muzykalnaya Street in Kaliningrad. 9 stab wounds were found on the body of the murdered man. A criminal case was initiated under Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder). Sources In Kaliningrad, a citizen of Uzbekistan, who arrived to work, was stabbed to death // IA REGNUM.Ru. 2009. March 20.

On March 19, 2009, a practical guide to hate crime legislation prepared by experts from the Office for Democracy and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR) was presented at an OSCE-sponsored roundtable in Vienna on 19 March 2009. See OSCE press release . The guide provides an overview of different approaches to hate crime legislation, considers examples of national legislation, and outlines options for recommendations.

On March 5, the mass media of the Kirov region reported that the activists of the Interregional Movement for the Protection of the Rights of Homosexuals were preparing an application for holding a gay pride parade in the region. A protest against the holding of this event was made by the head of the missionary department of the Vyatka diocese, priest Evgeny Smirnov. "Obviously, all the rights and demands demanded by homosexuals are exotic wishes and cannot be legislated.

On March 19, 2009, the Ordzhonikidzevsky District Court of Yekaterinburg declared illegal a warning about the inadmissibility of extremist activity, issued to a member of the religious group Jehovah's Witnesses I. Yu. Ananin in May 2008 by the prosecutor's office of the city of Asbest. Recall that in November 2008 the religious organization already tried to challenge this warning, but the Ordzhonikidzevsky court dismissed the complaint.

On March 20, 2009, it became known that in Novocheboksarsk (Republic of Chuvashia) a verdict was pronounced in the case of a group of Nazi skinheads. Recall that the members of the group were charged with paragraphs. "a" and "c" part 2 of Art. 282 (incitement of national and religious hatred by an organized group with the use of violence), Ch. 1.2 Art.