On March 10, 2011, the expert stock-purchasing commission of the state museum-reserve "Ryazan Kremlin" opposed the transfer of a collection of icons from the museum's funds to the Orthodox diocese. 6 out of 11 commission members spoke “against”. The Ministry of Culture ordered the transfer in 2010. The collection includes 66 ancient Russian icons, including the pre-Mongol "Hodegetria" and several icons of the 13th-14th centuries.

March 12, 2011 Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill meeting with members of the Global Leadership Group of the World Economic Forum announced the existence of a threat in Russia from radical Islam. "For a thousand years we had no religious wars. They always lived together, but each carried out his customs, his traditions preserved ...

On March 2, 2011, the verdict of the Kropotkin City Court of the Krasnodar Territory came into force, which was handed down last September in the case of incitement to national hatred (part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Recall that in the dock was V. Ponomarenko, who was accused of distributing xenophobic literature. Court found the young man guilty and sentenced him to a fine of 100 thousand rubles.

On March 10, 2011, the collegium of the Supreme Court of Buryatia canceled sentencing activists Nadezhda Nizovkina and Tatyana Stetsura on January 19 Soviet District Court of Ulan-Ude. Recall that they were found guilty under Part 1 of Article 282 (inciting social hatred) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and sentenced to a fine of 100 thousand rubles each. Activists accused of inciting social hatred to law enforcement and military personnel.

On March 14, 2011, the verdict of the Moscow City Court entered into force, which was handed down in the case of two neo-Nazis: 22-year-old student Vasily Krivets and his accomplice - 23-year-old unemployed Dmitry Ufimtsev. Recall, on October 28 last year, the court recognized the young people guilty of committing a series of racist murders and attacks, robberies, robbery, incitement of national hatred and other crimes. V. Krivets was sentenced to life imprisonment, and D.

On March 2, 2011, the verdict of the Krymsky District Court of the Krasnodar Territory came into force, which was issued in December last year against the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Vesti Slavs of the South of Russia, Boris Salomakha. The man was accused of arousing national hatred (part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) due to a publication in his newspaper xenophobic poem "Be Russian!" in 2007.

March 14, 2011 by decision of the Central District Court of the city of Chita, the “ Appeal to the Russian people, to army officers” was recognized as extremist material and the fleet, to the Cossacks, to the Russian youth and the Orthodox clergy .” The “Appeal…” is an anti-Semitic text, in which, in addition to other things, there are calls for the murder of "proteges of the world Jewish backstage" listed by name.

February 21, 2011 in the Krasnodar Territory on September 1, 2009 were convicted vandals who staged a pogrom at the cemetery of the village Vasyurinskaya, Dinsky district. Two adult men and two teenagers then defiled with Nazi symbols about ten tombstones on Armenian graves.

March 3, 2011 it became known that in Rostov-on-Don Two young men were sentenced for attempting to set fire to an Orthodox church in new year's eve. The eldest of the arsonists, 18-year-old Mikhail, thus protested against religion as his mother came to church to pray, however, her faith did not save her from cancer.

March 14, 2011 the Magistrate's Court of the Central of the administrative district of Tyumen issued a decision on the case of a public activist Andrey Kutuzov and sentenced him to 2 years of imprisonment on probation for a period of three years. Recall that Kutuzov was accused of distributing leaflets with calls for violent actions against police officers (part 1 article 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - public calls for extremist activity).

March 13, 2011 in St. Petersburg was committed attack on a native of Uzbekistan. Sokhijon Bakirov, 34, was taken to hospital with multiple stab wounds to the chest, abdomen, arms and head. The man is in critical condition. The attack took place outside 19 6th Cross Street. No robbery was reported. The issue of initiating a criminal case is being resolved. Sources In the north of the city, unknown persons attacked a guest worker // Fontanka.ru. 2011. March 14.