April 5, 2013 Head of Department cultural heritage of Moscow, Alexander Kibovsky said that the amount of subsidies, allocated for the restoration of religious sites in the city, in 2013 will amount to 150 million rubles. Subsidies will provided to applicants for restoration of more than 14 buildings. According to A. Kibovsky, in 2012 for restoration 9 objects from the budget of Moscow were allocated 96 million rubles. About 30 million more were added from their funds by religious organizations.

On April 5, 2013, the mayor of Novokuznetsk denied that a permit had been issued for the construction of a mosque in the city. “ There was no permit and construction, and no one saw the project. There is no talk of any construction and is not being carried out ,” he said at a press conference. Recall that in March 2012, the Russian Patriotic Club sent an application to the administration of Novokuznetsk with a request to cancel the building permit issued in February mosques.

April 4, 2013 in the Vyksa City Court of the Nizhny Novgorod area was considered an administrative case under Art. 20.29 Administrative Code (production and distribution of extremist materials) against a resident of Nizhny Novgorod, distributing literature during prayer meetings of the Witness community Jehovah. The case was closed for lack of an event of wrongdoing, since the literature distributed was not recognized as extremist and included in the Federal List of Extremist Materials.

In April 2013, the Temryuk District Court of the Krasnodar region satisfied the requirement of the Krasnodar transport prosecutor's office and recognized as extremist Grigory Klimov's book " Red Kabbalah ", a certain work "Milestones of History", a book Vladimir Istarkhova (collective pseudonym of V. Ivanov and V. Selivanov) “Strike Russian Gods" and the pamphlet "Racial Hygiene and Population Policy in the National Socialist Germany".

The following is our monthly review of incidences of xenophobia andradical nationalism, along with any government countermeasures, for March 2013.The review is based on material gathered by Sova Centerin the course of our daily monitoring. In March of 2013, ultra-right activists assaulted nofewer than 18 people in Moscow, St. Petersburg, the Ryazan and Voronezh regions, and the Komi Republic.

April 4, 2013 it became known that that the Church of the Intercession Novgorod Kremlin, which for a long time housed the Detinets restaurant, was handed over to the diocese. Borovichi authorities are also planning transfer the Trinity Cathedral to the Novgorod diocese, the building of which is currently located City House of Culture. Administration Novgorod region postponed the final decision of this issue until the end April 2013.

On March 28, 2013, the Ministry of Education sent a letter to the constituent entities of the Russian Federation “On the establishment of requirements for students' clothing.

In April 2013 Leninsky District Court of Kemerovo region satisfied the demand of the prosecutor of the Leninsky district of the city of Kemerovo and recognized several racist videos as extremist. Reportedly that the videos were posted on the VKontakte social network by a 38-year-old local a resident who in November 2012 was fined 30 thousand rubles for this Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred).

April 1, 2013 in the Traktorozavodsky District Court Chelyabinsk held a preliminary hearing on the case of recognizing 95 publications as extremist Jehovah's Witnesses. Information Claim Prosecutor's Office of the Chelyabinsk Region appeared on August 27, 2012; in April 2013 it became known that it 313 materials of Jehovah's Witnesses were required to be recognized as extremist.

On March 29, 2013, the annual report was published Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation on the problems of observance of constitutional rights and human freedoms in Russia in 2012. As part of the report, dedicated to the right to freedom of conscience, Vladimir Lukin identifies a number of problems associated primarily with the violation constitutional principle of " renunciation of the totalitarian practice of directive planting the so-called "only true worldview" ".