On March 21, 2012, a preliminary meeting was held of the Arbitration Court of the Vladimir Region on the claim of the Territorial Administration Federal Property Management Agency on the seizure of relics from the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (ROAC) Saints Euthymius and Euphrosyne of Suzdal.

On March 21, 2012, the draft federal law “On Amendments to Article 22.1 of the Federal Law “On State Registration of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs” and Articles 331 and 351.1 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation” passed its second reading. This bill provides for a ban on working with minors who have committed crimes under Chapter. 29 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

February 15, 2012 Kemerovo Regional the court overturned the decision of the Zavodskoy District Court of Kemerovo dated May 30, 2011 on the recognition of two brochures as extremist Jehovah's Witnesses and sent the case for a new trial. The decision refers to the brochures "Religion - stronghold of the world?" and "Eager for true worship", included in the Federal List of Extremist Materials under numbers 914 and 915 respectively.

March 21, 2012 it became known that in the Krasnodar Territory the Orthodox the parish was forced to buy out the building it rented, which was put up for auction. Parish of St. blzh. Xenia of Petersburg in the village Giray of the Gulkevichsky district in the 1990s rented from the biochemical plant part of the empty buildings and in a few years converted it into a temple. Another part of the building occupied by the post office and Sberbank.

March 21, 2012 the editorial office of the newspaper "Vyborg Vedomosti" received an official response from the Vyborg City Prosecutor's Office on the results of the check carried out in connection with the posting on the blog of journalist Andrey Kolomoisky on the Vyborg Vedomosti website links on a parody video on YouTube. The prosecutor's office saw signs of Part 2 of Art.

At the end of March 2012, the head of the Synodal Department for the relationship between the Church and society, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin several times publicly called for the use of force to protect shrines.

On March 22, 2012, it became known that the State Duma did not support the proposal of United Russia to ask law enforcement agencies about measures taken to bring to justice those involved in the action in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. The State Duma Security Committee recommended rejecting the project. Deputy head of the committee Ernest Valeev recalled that the law on the status of deputies does not allow interference in the activities of inquiry bodies, investigators and judges.

On March 22, 2012, the leader of the ultra-right organization Moscow Defense League, Daniil Konstantinov, was detained in Moscow. It is reported that D. Konstantinov was detained in his apartment on suspicion of complicity in committing murder (Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). According to some, as yet unconfirmed, reports, certain participants in the “Against Ethnic Crime” rally , which took place on October 1 last year, are suspected of murder.

On March 22, 2012, the statement of the Interreligious Council of Russia in connection with the punk action in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. compare the members of the group “Pussy Riot” The authors of the statement with the soldiers of the Napoleonic armies that turned Orthodox churches "into kitchens, stables and pubs." “It is gratifying to see that the state authorities have shown due attention to the incident and take the necessary steps to investigate incident.

March 20, 2012 in Voronezh, employees of the Center "E" searched the House of Human Rights, where a number of regional NGOs are based, and seized Xerox. According to a representative of the Center "E", the device was seized for based on operational information from the FSB that it "prints extremist materials. It is reported that the criminal case in connection with which a search was carried out, does not exist, no documents, the police at the same time presented.