VTsIOM published the results of the poll conducted on January 23-24, 2010 "Do we believe in God?" According to the study, the number of followers of Orthodoxy in 2009 increased from 70 to 75%. The number of non-believers was 8% of the number of respondents (in 2006 there were 16% of such people). 84% of those who called themselves Orthodox are baptized. Among non-believers, 39% are baptized. Among adherents of other Christian denominations, the baptized account for 58%.

On March 24, a preacher from the Society for Krishna Consciousness was again detained in Kostroma. He was taken to the department, where they took his fingerprints and drew up a protocol on an administrative offense.

March 27, 2010 in St. Petersburg in the underpass of the metro station "Sadovaya" was found a dummy bomb with a swastika. A package was found in the metro, which contained the shell of an F-1 grenade from the times of the Second World War with an electronic alarm clock attached to the standard fuse socket. During the examination by specialists of ITO OION, it turned out that the item is not an explosive device and does not pose a threat. Sources Bomb dummy found in St.

On the night of March 18-19, 2010 in Tomsk police officers detained a group of seven Nazi skinheads. Young people made several attacks on natives of Tajikistan and smashed a shoe repair shop in January 2010. The detainees confessed to their deed and stated that the reason for the attacks was, among other things, national hatred. Sources Tomsk skinheads // City portal tomsk.ru. 2010. March 28.

On March 29, 2010, a 17-year-old girl, a native of Karachay-Cherkessia, was beaten up near the Avtozavodskaya metro station in Moscow. The beating took place in front of passers-by who did not interfere in what was happening. The attackers, among whom were women, shouted "piss a suicide bomber" and filmed the beating on mobile phones. At a minimum, the victim received very serious facial injuries and a concussion.

March 29, 2010 in Moscow at the metro station "Kuntsevskaya" in the train car there was an attack by a group of passengers on the natives of the Caucasus. The reason for the fight was that the men traveling on the train decided to check the contents of the bags of people of "Caucasian appearance". The police officer, who came on a call, immediately withdrew.

On March 28, FSB detective S. Lysenko and several other employees came to a meeting of Jehovah's Witnesses in Slavgorod, Altai Territory, and demanded that those present remain in their places and prepare documents. Despite the objections of the believers, the FSB began taking photographs and videos. The children and women were then released. The security forces inspected the premises.

The parishioners of the Panteleimon Church at the Central Medical Unit N122 in St. Petersburg appealed to the deputy of the local Legislative Assembly Yevgeny Marchenko with a complaint that the leadership of the medical unit "arbitrarily closed" the temple. The church operated on the territory of the polyclinic for 15 years. On the territory of the medical unit there is another Orthodox church - in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "Reigning".

On March 29, two women wearing Muslim headscarves were beaten in the Moscow metro. The women boarded the train at the Avtozavodskaya station, in the carriage they were attacked by one of the passengers. The day before, two terrorist attacks were committed in the Moscow metro. Sources Two Muslim women beaten after terrorist attacks in Moscow // Echo of Moscow. 2010. March 29.

On March 12, the prosecutor's office of the Kalininsky district of Ufa filed a protest against one of the points of the charter of the Church of Evangelical Christians-Baptists "Good News".