March 15th 2012, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Chelyabinsk region announced that it was pre-investigation check on the fact of publication in January 2010 in the newspaper "Cossack view" published the article "Analytical review of modern national Cossack movement abroad. The author of the article is a resident city ​​of Miass, Chelyabinsk region Boris Melekhin.

On March 14, 2012, information appeared that the authorized on Human Rights in Russia, Vladimir Lukin tried to appeal against the decision on arrest of Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova in the Moscow City Court. But The collegium of the Moscow City Court did not allow representatives of the Ombudsman a person to do so, citing the lack of established forms of their participation. The press service of V.

March 15, 2012 Deputy Prime Minister Russian Federation Viktor Zubkov said that the restoration of Voskresensky New Jerusalem Monastery in 2012 allocated about 3 billion rubles. In 2011, the total cost of restoration work carried out in monastery, amounted to 843 million rubles.

On March 12, 2012, Russian scientists (philologists, philosophers, historians, religious scholars) sent an open letter to the President and Prime Minister of the Russian Federation with a request to “take personal control” of the situation surrounding the text “Bhagavad Gita As It Is.” Scientists are convinced that “ the actions of the prosecutor’s office in Tomsk, which initiated a trial over the holy book, which is an authoritative part of Hinduism, not only cause significant damage to the

On March 14, 2012, the plans of the Moscow the regional Duma to oblige computer clubs of the Moscow region to introduce content filters, similar to those introduced in Russian schools. According to the plan of the deputies, teenagers will not be allowed into clubs that have not installed filters. The proposal of the Moscow Regional Duma seems to us unlawful restriction. The filters installed in the Internet cafe will restrict the rights adult users, which is illegal.

On March 13, 2012, the Moscow Regional Court held a hearing cassation appeals against the decision of the Shchelkovsky city court (Moscow region), who left without consideration of cassation appeals of the director of the Publishing Group "New Era" by F.A. Asmanova, the International Church of Scientology and a group of individuals to the decision of June 27, 2011 on the initiation of a criminal cases under Part 1 of Art.

On March 12, 2012, a statement by Russian human rights activists was circulated and journalists calling for the arrested members of the Pussy Riot group to be recognized as “ prisoners of conscience as persecuted for expressing their views ” and “ to launch a public campaign in their defense ”. “ This is the first arrest in our country on charges of blasphemy , the statement said. - Previously similar allegations limited to fines. Thus, the last barrier on the way is destroyed.

On March 15, 2012, the security service of the Wings of the Soviets club reported that we managed to find a fan who, on June 22, 2011, during a match with Anji threw a banana at Brazilian football player Roberto Carlos. The attacker turned out to be a resident of Samara Vyacheslav Prokhorov. The search was conducted in contact with law enforcement agencies. In his video message Prokhorov said that he threw a banana on the field, but said that there were no This act had no racist motives.

12 March 2012 at the match between FC Alania and FC Torpedo, ultra-right fans threw snowballs at the black footballer of Alania Akes Gur Dakosta, and also hit Sanzhar Tursunov and Arsen Khubulov. After requests of the referee and the players, they did not calm down and continued to throw the field.

March 12, 2012 Nikita Tikhonov and Evgenia Khasis, convicted of murder lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, appealed verdict in the European Court of Human Rights.

On March 15, 2012 it became known that on March 2, 2012 the Adyghe the republican movement "Circassian Congress" filed with the Supreme Court of the Republic of Adygea, a complaint against the decision of the Maykop City Court.

March 13, 2012 Interfax reported that Marat Murtazin applied to the Meshchansky District Moscow court with a lawsuit against the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the European part Russia (DUMER).