The Vedomosti newspaper published on March 16, 2012 an article by A. Verkhovsky "How distinguish a prisoner of conscience from an extremist . The article was published in abbreviation. In particular, it did not include actually a list of those who are currently deprived of liberty under the articles of the Criminal Code, which can be conditionally considered "political". We present this list.

On March 16, 2012, charges under Part 2 of Art. 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (hooliganism committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy) was charged against Irina Lokteva, the third alleged participant in the action of the punk group Pussy Riot in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. Lokteva was detained the day before when she came to the investigative department of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Central Administrative District to give testimony.

On March 16, 2012, the Guild of Experts in Religion and Law applied to The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation with the requirement to conduct an audit and initiate a criminal case under Art. 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public calls for extremist activity) in relation to persons who placed billboards in Togliatti with depiction of the Baptist church as a "symbol of damnation".

At the 15th national exhibition-fair "Books of Russia", which opened on March 14, 2012 at the All-Russian Exhibition Center, xenophobic literature is being distributed. At the stand of the Algorithm publishing house, where it is planned to present books by V. Shved, O. Platonov, A. Savelyev (plans to present a report “on Russophobia in Russia”).

On March 15-16, 2012, the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church approved a number of personnel appointments and structural changes. In particular, from the Volgograd diocese was separated Uryupinsk and Kalachevsk eparchies, from the Yaroslavl - Rybinsk diocese, from the Samara - Kinel and Otradnensk eparchies, from the Nizhny Novgorod diocese - Lyskovskaya, Vyksa and Gorodets eparchies.

On March 15, 2012, the results of the examination regarding the performance of Konstantin became known Krylova ("Russian social movement") at the rally "Stop feeding the Caucasus", in fact November 2011 Krylov was charged under Part 1 of Art. 282 Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting national hatred). Experts O.D. Malantseva and Yu.A. Safonov saw "signs of inciting discord (enmity, hatred) ...

March 16, 2012 became it is known that the prosecutor's office of the Moskovsky district of Kaliningrad issued decision on the unreasonable refusal of the police to initiate a criminal case on the fact damage to the foundation stone of the Königsberg synagogue and a glass panel with the image of the menorah at the end of January 2012.

On March 15, 2012, it became known that residents of Moscow, dissatisfied construction of modular Orthodox churches in residential areas of the city, sent a letter to the Moscow City Duma with a request to “ exclude from consideration for building plots in the yards apartment buildings, park areas and squares, landscaped territories occupied by sports and playgrounds ”.

March 15th 2012, it became known that the Property Management Committee of St. Petersburg donated to the free use of the St. Petersburg Orthodox Spiritual academy a land plot of 1101 sq m on the Obvodny Canal embankment (site No. 15 b, letter D).

On March 16, 2012, the "Federal List of Extremist Materials" was again updated, adding paragraphs. 1088-1096. The list was replenished: new books by Said Nursi, a computer game, xenophobic videos, including the song of the group "Cyclone B", previously included in the list, an article by Igor Mukhin from the closed newspaper "To the Barrier", an election leaflet of the head of the pokrovka branch of the RONS Alexander Tindikov .

The Vedomosti newspaper published on March 16, 2012 an article by A. Verkhovsky "How distinguish between a prisoner of conscience and an extremist. The article was published in abbreviation. In particular, it did not include actually a list of those who are currently deprived of liberty under the articles of the Criminal Code, which can be conditionally considered "political", we give it separately.