On March 3, 2012, a Vietnamese citizen was beaten up on Ryabikov Street in Ulyanovsk. A 25-year-old resident of the city of Ulyanovsk beat and kicked the victim on the head and fled the scene. From the received wounds the victim has died in a hospital of one of medical institutions. The suspect was arrested. SO SK for the Ulyanovsk region opened a criminal case under Part 4 of Art. 111 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (causing grievous bodily harm resulting in death).

On March 13, 2012, in the office of the Memorial Society in Moscow, the Civic Assistance Committee held a seminar during which the director of the SOVA Center, Alexander Verkhovsky, outlined the concept of crimes motivated hatred, focusing on the experience of Russian and foreign legislation.

On March 18, 2102, the site Ovdinfo.org published an article by Alexander Verkhovsky "Just a little, immediately 282 ..." about appeals to the prosecutor's office on behalf of the Orthodox community on case of Pussy Riot, who offered to sign in a number of Moscow churches. Just a little, immediately 282 ...

On March 16, 2012, a statement was published by the Council of Orthodox Public Associations under the Synodal Department for Relations between Church and Society regarding the action of the Pussy Riot group. The authors of the document consider the action “a crime that must be condemned to the fullest extent of the law.” The performance of the punk group, in their opinion, was insulted not only by the patriarch and parishioners, but also by the temple and the shrines located in it.

On March 19, 2012, hearings on the case of Viktor Dvorakovsky and Vladimir Skirko began in the Stavropol Regional Court. V. Dvorakovsky is accused of committing crimes under Part 1 of Art. 30, part 1, art. 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (preparation for a terrorist act), art. 317 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (encroachment on the life of law enforcement officers), part 1 of Art.

On March 18, 2012, the prosecutor's office of the city of Inta (Komi Republic) reported that during the inspection they found on the facades of residential buildings on the street. The world posted images of the Nazi swastika. In order to eliminate violations of the law, the prosecutor of Inta submitted a recommendation to the head of the Russian Department of Internal Affairs for the city of Inta.

March 19, 2012 it became known that Boris Berezovsky announced his intention to create a party based on Christian and democratic values. The names "Christian-Democratic Revolutionary Party of Russia" or "Party of the Resurrection". "Christian - because love and freedom are the basis of our party ideology. Democratic - because only democratic the political system in Russia can ensure the implementation of our ideology.

March 15, 2012 Tenth Arbitration Court of Appeal Moscow considered the appeal of the administration of the urban district of Balashikha to the decision of the Arbitration Court of the Moscow Region dated November 23, 2011 on recognition as illegal the refusal of the administration to extradite the Church of evangelical Christian-Baptist "Ark" permission to commission the building prayer house.

On March 19, 2012, Novaya Gazeta published a statement researcher at the Center for the Study of Eastern Europe at the Bremen Nikolay Mitrokhin University. He refutes the information contained in article by Alexander Soldatov “For what should the servant of God Cyril thank the “slave for galleys." What did the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church do in the “dashing 90s” (“Novaya Gazeta”, No. 16 February 15, 2012).

On March 19, 2012, it became known that a criminal case had been opened under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity) against a resident of the city of Murmansk (born in 1991). As established during the pre-investigation check, the suspect called on passers-by on Schmidt Street to take hostile actions against the Chechens.

On March 16, 2012, the Tagansky District Court of Moscow authorized the arrest of Ekaterina Samutsevich, the third of the alleged participants in the action of the punk band Pussy Riot in Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

On March 18, 2012, in Moscow, a banana was thrown at Anzhi Makhachkala player Christopher Samba from the VIP stand after the Russian Championship match with Lokomotiv. A banana was thrown from a crowd of fans as Samba, along with other players, left the field. The player picked up the banana that hit him and threw it back into the crowd. The incident received publicity some time after the game, when a fan called the Sport radio station and told about the incident.

On March 19, 2012, the prosecutor's office of the Lakhdenpokhsky district of the Republic of Karelia announced that it had applied to the Lakhdenpokhsky district court with a statement about the " obligation of Mega Link LLC to stop the technical possibility of access for network users to sites " on which films were found recognized by the courts as extremist. The possibility of access to sites with "extremist materials" was revealed during the prosecutor's check.

On March 18, 2012, in a number of Moscow churches, a letter was read from the pulpits calling for criminal prosecution under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of hatred or enmity) for those involved in organizing the action of the punk group “Pussy Riot” in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, as well as the coverage of this action in the media.

On March 19, 2012, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Tatarstan canceled decision of the Naberezhnye Chelny City Court dated August 24, 2011 on recognition of 13 Scientology materials as extremist. The case was returned to the city court of Naberezhnye Chelny for a new review. Sources The Supreme Court of Tatarstan overturned the decision to recognize Scientology texts as extremist // Press release of the Church of Scientology in Moscow. March 19, 2012.