In mid-April, in the village of Smidovich in the Jewish Autonomous Region, unidentified people cut down a wooden cross on the site of an Orthodox church under construction. The police consider the incident a theft. According to Bishop of Birobidzhan and Kuldur Joseph (Balabanov), this is a "thought-out action." "It is doubly insulting that the vandals acted during Holy Week," he said.

On April 19, 2009, the website "Ferghana.Ru" published an article "A clinical case, or "Five minutes of hatred" for migrants", describing a situation in which anti-migrant hate speech in local media was inspired by one of the candidates for the post of mayor of Klin as a way discrediting a competitor. The reason for the campaign was a criminal episode (the murder of a woman) that took place on the territory adjacent to the dormitory of workers from Uzbekistan.

On April 17, 2009, a criminal case was initiated in Moscow under Part 1 of Art. 282 (actions aimed at inciting hatred or enmity, as well as degrading the dignity of a person or a group of persons on the basis of gender, race, nationality, language, as well as membership in any social group, committed publicly), Part 1 of Art. 280 (public calls for extremist activities), Part 1 of Art. 205.2 (public calls for terrorist activities) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

On April 17, Mullah Mussa Esmurziev was killed in Nazran. According to the investigation, "unidentified persons traveling in a VAZ-2110 car fired shots at Esmurziev, who was in the passenger compartment of a car in the yard of his house." A criminal case has been initiated under paragraph "g" part 2 of Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder committed by a group of persons). Recall that this is not the first murder of a clergyman in Ingushetia.

On April 10, employees of the UBOP department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for combating religious extremism in the Republic of Adygea searched the homes of several members of the Maikop mosque community, including the home of Imam Ibragim Shkhalakhov. Then the Muslims were taken to the UBOP department and interrogated. After the interrogation, the detainees were released. Community members consider the policemen's behavior "tactless".

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 4.5 million people in Russia took part in Easter services and religious processions on the night of April 19. Services were held in 9300 churches. They gathered the largest number of believers in the Krasnodar Territory (370 thousand), Rostov (257 thousand), Ryazan (190 thousand), Nizhny Novgorod (175 thousand) and Kursk (171 thousand) regions. In Moscow, services were held in 257 churches.

April 17, 2009 in Moscow at 23 on the avenue of the 60th anniversary of October, two young people were attacked by a native of Uzbekistan, 37-year-old Sabir Kh. (initially it was reported that the victim was a native of Tajikistan). A man, a housing and communal services worker, was painting the entrance door, when two people ran up to him, knocked him down and started beating him, then stabbed him 4 times.

On April 20, 2009, in Ryazan, a group of three people (K., minors V., born in 1991 and A., born in 1995) attacked a citizen of Cameroon. On April 20, 2009, young people gathered at the shopping center "Polsinaut" to participate in the "Russian March" and decided to go and beat people "who do not belong to either the Russian nation or the Caucasian race" . They walked down the street, chanting "Russia for the Russians" and "Glory to Russia" towards the Ryazan State Medical University. I.P.

On April 10, the Department of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation for Moscow re-registered the Moscow branch of the Salvation Army. Since 1999, the authorities have been trying to close the branch of this organization. In October 2006, the European Court of Human Rights satisfied the claim of the Salvation Army against Russia and found the refusal to re-register illegal.

Mischa Gabowitsch, a sociologist and fellow in Princeton University's Society of Fellows, was accredited by the SOVA Center for Information and Analysis to participate in Durban Review Conference in Geneva (20-24 April, 2009). We offer to your attention his observations published on his daily updated weblog http://durbanreview.blogspot.com/ .

On April 18, 2009, in Moscow, on Yablochkova Street, in the courtyard of the Butyrskaya Prosecutor's Office building, a murder of a citizen of Tajikistan was committed. (It was previously reported that the killed man was a citizen of Uzbekistan). A citizen of Tajikistan, who worked as a janitor in Moscow, was attacked by several young people aged 16 to 25 years. According to eyewitnesses, the attackers looked like Nazi skinheads, dressed in short jackets, and their heads were shaved.

As it became known on April 20, 2009, the criminal case under part 3 of article 30, part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (attempted actions aimed at inciting social hatred or enmity), initiated in April 2007 in Voronezh, was closed due to lack of corpus delicti. Meanwhile, Viktor Potryvaev, who was a witness in the case, failed to obtain the return of the items confiscated during the search.