On March 19, 2012, it became known that on February 3, 2012, the Magistrate's Court on the 5th section of the Volzhsky district of Saratov found anti-fascist Alexander Samiev guilty under Part 2 Art.

March 16, 2012 in Novocheboksarsk (Chuvashia) representatives of law enforcement agencies conducted searches in three houses of Jehovah's Witnesses. Irina Korneva reported that at 10 am three policemen, posing as inspectors of the electrical network, entered her apartment. According to her, during the search they provided pressure on her, they assured her that her passport was fake, which brought her 70-year-old nervous breakdown woman. During a search in the apartment of I.

On March 20, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Kostroma Region announced the initiation of a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity) against a 25-year-old local resident. According to investigators, on January 13, 2012, a woman in the village of Nikolskoye, Kostroma District, shouted xenophobic insults at the district police officer, a native of the Caucasus.

March 20, 2012 Taishet Transport Prosecutor's Office reported that she had issued a warning about the inadmissibility of violation legislation on countering extremist activity to the owner of the railway station Internet cafe in Taishet due to the fact that it was possible to access to extremist materials.

On March 20, 2012, the "Federal List of Extremist Materials" was again updated , paragraphs. 1097-1098. The list was supplemented by a book by Waffen-SS commander Kurt Meyer and an anti-Semitic book calling for the destruction of "ratmen". Update of the Federal List of Extremist Materials dated March 20, 2012. The Book of Orei Volot. Ratmen. - M: "Svekrasaf", 2010. - P. 608 (decision of the Cheryomushkinsky district court of the city of Moscow dated 12/14/2011).

March 20, 2012 The Moscow Regional Court confirmed the decision of Schelkovsky city ​​court (Moscow region), which without consideration left the cassation appeals Director of the New Era Publishing Group F.A. Asmanova, International Church of Scientology and Groups of Individuals to the June 27, 2011 Order initiation of a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting religious hatred) on the distribution of Ron's books Hubbard.

On March 20, 2012, the Tomsk Regional Court began consideration of the appeal Prosecutor of Tomsk against the decision of the Leninsky District Court of Tomsk, according to which the book "Bhagavad-Gita. As It Is" is not recognized as extremist material. At the request of representatives of the prosecutor's office, the process announced break until March 21 to review the materials.

March 18, 2012 a picket was held on Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow against the transfer of the monument to A.S. Pushkin on Tverskoy Boulevard and restoration on Pushkinskaya Strastnoy Square monastery. The action was attended by representatives of the Left Socialist Action, Union of Communards, Labor Russia and other organizations.

March 20, 2012 year it became known that three pagan sanctuaries in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous district are included in the list of objects to be protected. Among them - a stone ridge, a lake and a revered place on the outskirts Vytvozhgort village in the Shuryshkarsky district. These places are currently rituals of the inhabitants of the North. Sources Three places of worship for the Yamal natives have become protected objects // Interfax-religion. 2012. March 20.

On March 20, 2012, the Kommersant newspaper published an article Alexander Verkhovsky "The price of the issue", dedicated to the problems of applying the article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The material was released with minor technical cuts, but we present its full version. Issue price Article 282 of the Criminal Code has become so widely known and so emotionally discussed that it already acquires the features of a legendary character.

20th of March 2012, it became known that the defense of Ekaterina Samutsevich, the third of the alleged participants in the action punk band "Pussy Riot" in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, filed a cassation complaint against decision of the Tagansky District Court. Recall that the arrest of E. Samutsevich, the third of the alleged participants in the action in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, was sanctioned by the Tagansky District Court of Moscow on March 16, 2012.

March 19 2012 it became known that 2 February 2012, the prosecutor's office of the Bezenchuksky district of the Samara region brought protest against the charter of Bezenchuk's local religious organization "Church of Evangelical Christian Baptists" "House of the Gospel" The prosecutor's office pointed out that two paragraphs of the charter did not correspond to the current legislation: clause 1.5 of the charter, in which says that "the Church operates on the basis of Holy Scripture, of this