March 1, 2011 "Slavic Legal Center" published the "Regulations on the organization of work with believing military personnel Armed Forces of the Russian Federation”, approved by the Minister defense January 24, 2010. This document, forming the legislative framework that regulates ministry priests in military units, suggests that chaplains (officials for working with religious military personnel) are " appointed to positions according to the ideas of religious associations" .

March 2, 2012 in Moscow next to militia stronghold on the Shchelkovskoye Highway, an attack was made on 42-year-old district police officer Gagik Benyaminyan. The incident happened when the man arrived to work on his car: an unknown person approached to the car and shot 3 times at a police officer and fled. From 3 target bullets reached two. G. Benyaminyan was taken to the hospital with gunshot wounds. Fortunately, he managed to survive.

March 2, 2011 the head of the Tatar public Center (TOC) Rafis Kashapov told reporters about the participation of the TOC in the collection of signatures in order to achieve the resignation of the head of the Novosheshminsky district Vyacheslav Kozlov.

March 2, 2011 Representative The Ministry of Education and Science told reporters that their concerns about the increase the number of hours for teaching the pilot course "Fundamentals of Religious cultures and secular ethics” are not substantiated.

On February 25, 2011, in Moscow, at the Russian State Social University, which is located on Wilhelm Pieck Street, a mass brawl occurred. Despite the resistance of the security guards, approximately 20 young people from Ingushetia broke into the university building and attacked students who had come to study from North Ossetia. The attackers were armed with traumatic weapons and shouted anti-Ossetian slogans. Representatives of the diaspora and police officers arrived at the scene of the fight.

March 1, 2011 in St. Petersburg, at a meeting of the city government, was announced statistics on crimes motivated by national and religious hate. As the head of the Rule of Law Committee stated, law and order and security, Leonid Bogdanov, in 2010 year, 7 criminal cases for similar crimes, and only one of them had a violent character. According to the SOVA Center, in 2010 there were the following cases have been filed: In January 2010 - under Part 2 of Art.

To date, not a single "extremist" case can do without conducting scientific expertise. The opinion of scientists is requested on all stages - from the prosecutor's check to the court. Sometimes the situation becomes anecdotal. Above the slogan "Bey khachey", written on a military monument in the Amur region, fought a team of scientists-experts from the Far East and Kharkov universities.

On March 2, 2011, the Moscow City Court refused to satisfy the complaint filed by the lawyers of Colonel Vladimir Kvachkov against the decision of the Lefortovo city court, which previously recognized the lawful bringing charges against V. Kvachkov. The defense argued otherwise, arguing that the relevant the decision was handed over to V. Kvachkov in the absence of one of the lawyers.

In February 2011, at least 3 people were injured and 3 killed in attacks by neo-Nazis in Russia. The incidents of violence were recorded in Moscow (1 dead), St. Petersburg (3 wounded, 1 dead), and Astrakhan (1 dead). According to data available to SOVA, at least 17 people were injured and 8 killed so far this year. In February we recorded at least 3 acts of vandalism motivated by hatred or neo-Nazi sentiment.

On March 2, 2011, the prosecutor's office of Zabaikalsky Krai announced its intention to take control of the activities of the regional organization "Transformation of Russia". Press service Prosecutor's Office emphasizes that by order of the Ministry of Justice from November 15, 2009 to March 20, 2011 activity All-Russian charitable public organization "Transformation of Russia" suspended.

March 2, 2011 in the annex to the "Independent newspaper” published the opinion of political scientist Ruslan Kurbanov, who assessed modern processes of state policy towards Orthodoxy and Islam. In his opinion, the question of the choice of Islamic directions traditional for Russia in is directly related to the relationship between the Church and the state.

March 1, 2011 Chairman of the State Assembly - El Kurultai of the Republic of Altai Ivan Belekov met with the dean's priest George Balakin. During the conversation, there were the issues of forming the concept of the national policy of the Altai Republic were discussed, including the issues of cultural interaction between Orthodoxy and Altai shamanism.

We invite you to have a look at our monthly review of state misuse of anti-extremism laws. Previously, our updates under the Racism and Xenophobia heading would have included the following, but from now on Misuse of Anti-Extremism will be posted in its own, separate update. In this area, the usual problems of abuse remained. In summary, our research shows that there were two unlawful rulings, and one contradictory ruling.