In March 2018, a case against a 17-year-old teenager accused of applying xenophobic graffiti on the walls of houses and posting xenophobic materials on a social network was brought to court in the Kurgan region. In March 2018, in the city of Shchuchye, Kurgan Region, the investigation of the case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred) and part 2 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremism).

On March 31, 2018, in the city of Elektrostal, Nikolai Kiper beat and robbed Yuri Volkov, whom he had previously met in a nightclub. In court, Kiper stated that he attacked V. "on on the basis of personal hostile relations, because he mistook him for a person of non-traditional orientation. In addition, on March 29, 2018, in the city of Elektrostal, Kiper severely beat and robbed O.

In Kolomna near Moscow against a citizen of Tajikistan for publications on the social network initiated a case of inciting religious hatred. March 28, 2018 it became known about the excitement in Kolomna criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of hatred) in relation to the 38-year-old citizen of the Republic of Tajikistan.

Interreligious Council of Russia proposed to ban Wahhabism as an extremist ideology. Most experts disapproved of this offer. On March 27, 2018, the participants of the meeting of the Interreligious Council of Russia (MSR) declared the need to condemn Wahhabism.

On March 28, 2018, the Moscow City Court confirmed the reduction to 3.5 years in prison of the nationalist Alexander (Potkin) Belov, who was convicted in August 2016 of inciting hatred and legalizing stolen monetary assets of the Kazakh BTA Bank. Now Belov should be released on April 14, 2018.

In March 2018 in Moscow, a case against a 20-year-old local resident, accused of publishing xenophobic materials on a social network calling for violence against government officials, as well as members of certain ethnic and religious groups.