In March 2012, in the Kostroma region, an investigation into the case of inciting ethnic hatred (Part 1, Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) was completed. A 25-year-old resident of the village of Nikolskoye will soon be in the dock, who is accused of publicly shouting racist insults at the district police officer, a native of the North Caucasus, on January 13 this year. It is reported that the girl was very drunk.

On March 28, 2012, the Moscow City Court did not satisfy cassation of the defense third of the alleged participants in the action of the punk band "Pussy Riot" in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior against the decision of the Tagansky District Court. Previously, complaints about the arrest of two more members of “Pussy Riot by Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina. We repeat that we do not consider excitement against participants of "Pussy Riot" cases under Part 2 of Art.

27 March 2012, the Sakhalin Regional Court overturned the decision of Makarovsky District Court of the Sakhalin Region, which in October 2011 recognized extremist texts of Jehovah's Witnesses. Among the banned materials were the following texts: "Who are Jehovah's Witnesses", "Who is Jehovah", "Suffering will soon be gone!", "The fiery hell of God's retribution?", "Who is Jesus Christ?", "Who really rules the world?", " Will this world survive?", "Are we responsible to God?

On March 28, 2012, it became known that a resident Kaliningrad region Amir Abueva, in respect of which a case has been initiated under Part 1 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organization activities of an extremist organization), are trying to send to a psychiatric hospital through the court expertise. A. Abuev refused to undergo a psychiatric examination voluntarily.

March 28, 2012 it became known that 26 March in St. Petersburg, a blood transfusion was performed on a child who got into an accident Jehovah's Witnesses without their consent. Legal basis for operation was the decision of the Smolninsky court Petersburg, which allowed "blood transfusion and surgery to vital signs, regardless of parental prohibition. The operation was carried out in the Department of Surgery of Hospital No.

On March 28, 2012, the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation approved 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.” Now the law will go to the President of the Russian Federation for signature. This bill provides for a ban on working with minors who have committed crimes under Chapter.

In March 2012, a criminal case was opened in Novosibirsk under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred). The case was launched against a 17-year-old student of the cadet corps, who is accused of posting on two of his pages on the VKontakte network the film "Russia with a knife in the back", which is included in the Federal List of Extremist Materials. Russia with a knife in the back.

On March 28, 2012, the Interfax agency hosted a presentation of the SOVA Center's report on the problems of unlawful application of anti-extremist legislation in 2011. The press conference was attended by the author of the report, Alexander Verkhovsky, director of the SOVA Center, and Elena Ryabinina, researcher at the Institute of Human Rights. A. Verkhovsky and E.

March 22, 2012 in Snezhinsk, Chelyabinsk region the car of Jehovah's Witnesses Vladimir Savchenko was searched. The criminal investigation officers seized religious films from the car. According to V. Savchenko, he noticed that the traffic police officers had a list of vehicle numbers of other community members.

On March 28, 2012, the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Court upheld satisfaction of the cassation appeal against the verdict of the Leninsky District Court of the Nizhny Novgorod Novgorod according to Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organization of the activities of an extremist organization) in relation to the group followers of Said Nursi. Recall that E. Hasanov was sentenced to 1 year in prison for Part 1 Art.

March 27, 2012 to the Vyborgsky District Court of St. Petersburg an indictment was sent in a case initiated under Part 1 and Part 2 of Art. 282.2 (organization and participation in the activities of a banned organization) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation against 12 activists "Another Russia". According to part 1 of Art.

March 26, 2012 in the Moscow city Duma, within the framework of a meeting of the Commission for Public Associations and Religious Organizations and the Commission for Culture and Mass Communications, discussed the problem of building a modular church in Tsaritsyn at the address: Sevanskaya street, possession 4. The reason for the discussion was the collective appeal of residents area with request to transfer the construction of the temple to another site.