On March 30, a resident of the city of Sebezh, Pskov Region, filed a complaint with the police about the desecration of graves at the Jewish cemetery. Headstones were split on 18 graves, wreaths and crosses were broken and burned (the cemetery was created as a Jewish one, but people of different faiths have been buried there for a long time). Presumably, the crime was committed after March 9, because. until that day, according to the applicant, the graves were in order.

In early April, Bishop Maxim (Dmitriev) of Barnaul and Altai appealed to the trade enterprises of the region with a request not to sell bottled drinking water "Mountain Spring - Kreshchensky". According to the inscription on the labels, the water was spilled on the feast of the Epiphany, and the well from which it was taken was consecrated. "January is left behind, long lines to the church too. What should those who could not stock up on healing water do?

On April 6, 2009, neo-Nazis killed a citizen of Tajikistan named Tuichev in St. Petersburg. The details of the crime are unknown, but law enforcement agencies report that neo-Nazis filmed the murder on a video camera, and this video was later posted on the Internet. The incident became known from a report about the detention of members of the group in June 2010. Sources Shishlin Vladimir. Suspected of brutal murders // Interfax. 2010. June 17.

The Chuvash diocese appealed to the State Council of Chuvashia with a proposal to legally restrict the activities of new religious movements in the republic. The diocese's list of "totalitarian sects" and "destructive cults" to be banned included network marketing companies Amway (distributor of cosmetics and household chemicals), Zepter (distributor of dishes and household appliances) and Tienshi (distributor of bioadditives).

April 8, 2009, International Gypsy Day, at the Public Center. Sakharov in Moscow held a press conference of the Anti-Discrimination Center "Memorial" (St. Petersburg) on ​​the problem of human rights response to violations of the rights of Roma residents of the Russian Federation.

On April 7, 2009, it became known that the Kemerovo Jewish religious community, in a letter to representatives of the regional administration, expressed serious concern about anti-Semitic publications in the regional newspaper of veterans "Countrymen" and asked "to curb presumptuous anti-Semites . " On January 30, 2009, the newspaper published an article by V.

In early April 2009, the Election Commission of the Stavropol Territory stated that the statements of the former leader of the musical group “Tender May” Andrei Razin, who made an unsuccessful attempt to register as a candidate for mayor of the city of Kislovodsk, “are not only slanderous, but also extremist.” The point is that on April 6, Razin said that the electoral commission of the Stavropol Territory was pursuing a corrupt policy regarding elections, and its actions did not comply with the

In early April, after a meeting between Patriarch Kirill and St. Petersburg Governor Valentina Matvienko, a decision was made to build an Orthodox church on the territory of Victory Park. Recall that the Orthodox community opposed the privatization of this park and for several years sought permission to build a church there in memory of those killed during the blockade. At the end of April, V. Matvienko clarified that the possibility of building a temple was only being discussed.