On March 17, 2011, the CPE employees handed over to the prosecutor's office of the Industrial District of the city of Samara criminal case against students of a technical school and college (born in 1994 and 1992) under part 2 article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (hooliganism committed on the basis of national hatred). August 15, 2010 at about 5:30 p.m.

In mid-March 2011, the Kamyshinsky City Court The case was transferred to the Volgograd region under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting national hatred) against a local resident who wrote to March 2010 on one of the Internet sites xenophobic comment. Experts saw in this comment signs of incitement to hatred and justification of violent actions against "non-Russians".

March 22, 2011 it became known that the Moscow evangelical Baptist Christians (initiators) sent to the President of the Russian Federation a letter regarding a draft law submitted to the State Duma providing for limiting the distribution of religious literature, audio and video products.

On March 4, 2011, the Belgorod Regional Duma submitted to Consideration by the State Duma of the bill "On Amendments to Article 17 of the Federal Law "On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations" and Article 5.26 Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offenses".

March 21, 2011 it became known that in Nakhodka filed by the Department of the Ministry of Justice of Russia for the Primorsky Territory for violations of the law, the local organization of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Asian part of Russia. The nature of the violations is not specified. Sources The fight against extremism continues in the Far East // VestiRegion.ru. 2011. March 21.

On March 22, 2011, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church adopted a number of personnel appointments and structural changes. The synod approved the composition of the Supreme Church Council, consisting of the heads of synodal institutions. New dioceses were formed in the North Caucasus: Pyatigorsk and Cherkessk (Bishop Feofilakt of Smolensk and Vyazemsky was appointed to this chair) and Vladikavkaz and Makhachkala (Archbishop Zosima of Elista and Kalmykia).

On March 22, 2011, it became known that the head of the Synodal Department for Church and Society Relations Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin appointed responsible executor in the development of forms of participation of public organizations, including religious ones, in the prevention of ethnopolitical extremism and prevention of interethnic conflicts. Other responsible President of the Migration XXI Century Foundation V. Postavnin was appointed.

On March 22, 2011, the Prosecutor's Office of the Moscow Region announced that Ozersky The city court ruled in favor of the unemployed 24-year-old local resident Igor Belov. Convicted on January 3, 2011 threatened to kill citizen of Uzbekistan. I. Belov was found guilty under Part. 2 tbsp. 119 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (a threat to kill, committed on the basis of national hate). The court sentenced him to 2 years in prison.

On March 17, 2011, it became known that the parishioners of Pyatigorsk mosques and leadership of the Pyatigorsk State Linguistic University (PSLU) sent an open letter to the editorial office of the newspaper "Moscow's comsomolets". This newspaper in early February published article "The Supreme Educational Institutions", the authors of which accused students of Pyatigorsk universities, in particular PSLU, in that from among their students radical Islamists recruit suicide bombers.