At the request of the State Security Service of Sweden, 35-year-old Russian brothers Sergey and Igor Kushev were deported to Russia for participating in the Nazi Northern Resistance Movement (NMR). According to Swedish media, the twin brothers participated in Nazi training in Södermanland. They were seen there with Nazi Nikolas Yngve, who was formerly part of the NMR but moved to the splinter group Nordisk styrka in 2019.

The prosecutor asks to sentence Smolensk Jehovah's Witnesses to real terms of imprisonment in the case of the continuation of the activities of an organization recognized as extremist. On March 22, 2021, speaking in the debate of the parties in the case of Jehovah's Witnesses in the Industrial District Court of Smolensk, the public prosecutor requested punishment for them.

In Lyubertsy, a criminal case on hate-motivated attacks was sent to court. In March 2021, the city prosecutor's office sent a criminal case to the Lyubertsy City Court of the Moscow Region against a Moldovan citizen accused under paragraph “e” of Part 2 of Art. 111 (intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm based on national hatred and enmity) and Art. 116 of the Criminal Code (beatings motivated by national hatred and enmity).

Government amendments to the law "On freedom of conscience" were adopted in the second and third readings. The controversial provisions on the attestation procedure and on the name of legal entities were finalized taking into account the wishes of religious organizations, other proposals were not changed. On March 23, 2021, the State Duma adopted in the second reading a bill amending the federal law "On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations".

The defendants in the case of the murder of an Azerbaijani citizen after a fight near the Neolit ​​cafe were acquitted in Moscow. In March 2021, in the Moscow City Court, the jury acquitted three defendants in the criminal case of the murder of a taxi driver from Azerbaijan after a fight near the Neolit ​​cafe in 2019. The Moscow City Court acquitted Lors Khamiyev, Khamid Dzhabrailov and Anzor Shakhbiyev.

At the request of the Swedish Security Service, 35-year-oldRussian nationals, brothers Sergey and Igor Kushev, were deported to Russia forparticipation in the neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement (NMR). According to Swedish media,the twins took part in neo-Nazi training in Södermanland. There they were seentogether with the neo-Nazi Nicholas Yngve, who used to be in the NMR but thenmoved to the breakaway group Nordisk styrka in 2019.

Members of the Bryansk branch of the "Union of Slavic Forces of Rus'" were charged under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (participation in the activities of an extremist organization). In March 2021, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Bryansk Region initiated a case against three residents of Bryansk, suspected under Part 1 of Art.

The trial of another case on participation in the organization of Jehovah's Witnesses in Birobidzhan is nearing completion.

Tulyak was fined 30,000 rubles for caricature images of icons. In early March 2021, it became known that the court increased the fine imposed on a native of Plavsk, Tula Region, to 30,000 rubles. He was prosecuted under Part 2 of Art. 5.26 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (deliberate public desecration of objects of religious veneration, signs or emblems of ideological symbols and paraphernalia).

The regional court approved a suspended sentence for a Jehovah's Witness convicted under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code. On March 22, 2021, the Rostov Regional Court considered the appeal of Galina Parkova, a follower of the teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses, convicted under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (participation in the activities of an extremist organization).

A government bill on complicating the reporting of NCOs-"foreign agents" was adopted in the second reading. On March 23, 2021, the State Duma adopted in the second reading a draft law on amendments to the federal law "On non-profit organizations". It was submitted for consideration by the government in November 2020 and adopted on first reading on December 15.