On March 29, 2009, near the Rodina cinema in St. Petersburg, where the anti-racist film festival Open Your Eyes was held. neo-Nazis tried to attack anti-fascists In addition, the clashes continued in the train carriage near the Pionerskaya metro station. After the films were shown, neo-Nazis (about 50 people) attacked anti-fascists leaving the hall. They prepared to defend themselves. At this time, police officers intervened in the situation, starting to carry out arrests.

On March 30, 2009, in the Achinsk court (Krasnoyarsk Territory), a sentence was passed on Petr Kinakh, who desecrated the city Memory Alley in September 2008. The verdict was passed under Part 2 of Art. 214 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (vandalism motivated by national hatred) and Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred or enmity).

On March 29, it became known that the head of the "anti-sectarian" center in Syktyvkar, D. Geraskin, sent a letter to secondary school N34 in the village of Ezhva. D. Geraskin, in his letter, demanded that the paintings of Nicholas Roerich be removed from the walls of the school, since, in his opinion, they are "a hotbed of sectarianism." The education authorities checked the paintings and informed D.

At the end of March, it became known that the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation approved the "Procedure for Registration, Opening and Closing of Representative Offices of Foreign Religious Organizations in the Russian Federation." This document also approves samples of a certificate of registration of a representative office of a foreign religious organization and a register of representative offices opened in the Russian Federation. Order of the Ministry of Justice of Russia No.

On March 29, 2009, the Khabarovsk District Court of Khabarovsk convicted a young man who, as part of a racist group, beat a non-Slavic man in March 2008. The case against him was initiated under Part 2 of Art. 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (hooliganism committed by a group of persons motivated by hatred) and p.p. "a, b" part 2 of Art. 115 (intentional infliction of minor bodily harm, committed out of hooligan motives motivated by national hatred).

In March 2009, the prosecutor's office of the city of Gubakha, Perm Territory, filed a complaint against the heads of administrations of municipalities and directors of municipal libraries, inspecting compliance with anti-extremist legislation. As a result of the audit, the prosecutor's office found that "library staff do not know the main provisions of the Federal Law" On Counteracting Extremist Activities "and have never heard of the existence of a list of extremist materials.

On March 30, it became known about the next update of the Federal List of Extremist Materials. It includes, among other things, publications related to religion. Leaflet of the Russian National Movement "Russian March - 2007" (decision of the Pravoberezhny District Court of the city of Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region of 02.02.2009). Journal of revolutionary collectivists "Proletarian Revolution", No. 1, autumn 2001 (decisions of the Kirovsky District Court of Ufa of 11/12/2008).

The head of the St. Petersburg Islamic organization "Al-Fath" Jamaliddin Makhmutov forwarded an appeal on the establishment of state awards with Muslim symbols to the President. At the end of March, he received a response to this appeal. The proposal to establish a special award for Muslims did not find support from the authorities. The document says that the St. George Cross is a traditional award of Orthodox Russia.

On March 29, 2009, in St. Petersburg, at the Udelnaya metro station, an 18-year-old student of the Mechanical Engineering Faculty of the Polytechnic Institute pasted stickers of "nationalist content" in the metro and in electric train cars, together with a group of unidentified persons. The young man was detained by police officers. An administrative offense report was drawn up. Eight stickers were confiscated from him.

On March 30, 2009, the investigating authorities of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Bashkortostan completed the investigation of the criminal case under paragraphs. "a", "c" part 2 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred or enmity), paragraph "e" part 2 of Art.

On March 28, 2009, in Tula, the leaders of the Tula and Kursk branches of the Russian People's Democratic Union, Alexander Lestnikov and Igor Parshin, were detained for “extremist” actions. Their actions consisted of approaching those gathered for a protest meeting in order to explain to them that the meeting was not sanctioned by the authorities. The police officers who approached, according to RNDS activists, said that their actions could be qualified as extremism and detained them.

On March 27, 2009, new additions to the Federal List of Extremist Materials were made on the website of the Ministry of Justice . It included paragraphs. 350 - 361. As of March 27, 2009, the list includes 361 items (in fact, 353 materials). Update of the Federal List of Extremist Materials dated March 25: The article "Speech of the Rabbi", published on March 25, 2004 in the newspaper "Alex-Inform" ( decision of the Oktyabrsky District Court of Samara dated June 5, 2008).