On March 18, 2013, it became known that feeding the homeless in the Moscow church of Cosmas and Damian in Shubin stops again. Until the end of March the homeless will still be able to receive hot meals in the temple, but after the temple volunteers will not be able to organize feeding, because officials are not satisfied with the accumulation homeless on one of the main streets.

On March 19, 2013, it became known that the bill "On amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation in order to counter insult to religious beliefs and feelings of citizens, desecration of objects and objects of religious veneration (pilgrimage), places of religious rites and ceremonies" , which received an official negative review from the Government of the Russian Federation on January 27, 2013, was not recalled from the Duma,

We re-publish a news item from Human Right First web-site, regarding SOVA annual report and future UPR hearings in UN on Russia. They say predictions are difficult, especially about the future. A recent report on hate crime in Russia reveals that it’s been " a contradictory year" and Russian analysts simply don’t know what to expect in the coming year. The SOVA Center’s data shows a still-high level of violence: 19 people were murdered and 187 injured in 2012, compared to 25 and 195 in 2011.

In March 2013, a criminal case was opened in Saratov according to part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred). The case was initiated against a 48-year-old local resident, whom accused of publishing on September 24 last year under the nickname "Ivan" on the website of the newspaper "The Fourth Power" a racist commentary on one of the articles. Unfortunately, what exactly was contained in the comment is not disclosed.

In March 2013, the Prosecutor's Office of the Kamchatka Territory filed administrative case under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (dissemination of extremist materials) against the director of one of the bookstores in the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

March 7, 2013 Elista City Court of the Republic Kalmykia issued a verdict in an administrative case on propaganda and public demonstration of Nazi paraphernalia (part 1 of article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The case involved a 21-year-old resident of Elista, who was accused of publishing a photo on the social network VKontakte, in which depicts two young men in Nazi uniforms.

On March 17, 2013, a group of Orthodox activists held action at the Darwin Museum in Moscow. A banner "God created the world" was hung out of the window of the building, a prayer service and scattered leaflets in the central hall: “Let's protect our children from lies! The universe was created by God 7522 years ago. The theory of evolution is a pseudoscientific myth, an untenable hypothesis that has never been proven by anyone.

March 19, 2013 world section 363 of the Khamovnichesky court Moscow issued a verdict in the case of Yuri Piotrovsky , in September 2012, poured two ink icons in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. The court found him guilty under Part 2 of Art. 214 of the Criminal Code (vandalism, motivated by religious hatred and enmity) and sentenced to a year freedom restrictions. For this period, Yu. Piotrovsky is forbidden to visit Christian churches.

On March 19, 2013, Yabloko leader Sergei Mitrokhin sent Request to the Prosecutor General's Office to conduct an investigation into the fact attacks by Orthodox activists on the central office of the party in Moscow. Recall that representatives of the movement "God's will" in the framework of the action "Orthodox Inquisition" broke into the office of "Yabloko", confiscated literature and burned her. A video recording of the action was posted on the website of "God's Will".

March 14, 2013 Pechenga District Court of Murmansk region satisfied the claim of the prosecutor's office and recognized as extremist videos "Veteran VOV about evrejskom fashizme.flv", "Evrejskij rasizm..240.mp4" and "Ubijstvo Russia.flv. All three videos were published in 2009 on the VKontakte network. Aleksey Rogovsky and Ivan Sverchkov, who in May 2012 were convicted under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (initiation of a national hate).

In March 2013, the Leninsky District Court of the city of Kemerovo delivered a verdict in an administrative case on the spread of extremist materials (Article 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The case involved a 23-year-old local resident, who was accused in the publication in one of the social networks of a banned video clip of Timur Mutsuraev’s song “Get up Chechnya, it's time to go!

We publish a report "Xenophobia and national extremism in Ukraine - 2012". Report prepared according to the monitoring results of our Kyiv colleague Vyacheslav Likhachev.

On March 18, 2013, it became known that more than 2 thousand signatures against the exhibition of Marat Gelman "Icons". Activists of the public organization "Trade Union of Citizens of Russia" intend to transfer these signatures to Governor Georgy Poltavchenko. Several hundred appeals have already been sent to the governor in in electronic format. Recall that the exhibition in St. Petersburg was scheduled for 2012, but met with protests from the Orthodox.

In March 2013, the Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Khakassia sent to The Abakan City Court filed a lawsuit demanding that the leaflet “Order of the authorities of the city of Abakan on obligatory attendance of the Jewish population of the city and its environs in the area of ​​the railway station." Recall that this leaflet written on behalf of the "Fascist Union of Siberia" and "Khakass National Socialist Party", appeared on the wall of the Jewish Community Center of Abakan in end of