March 31, 2021 it became known about detention of a resident of St. Petersburg, suspected of destroying the figures of angels on the tombstones of one of the city cemeteries for several years. The vandal broke off the wings, damaged faces of sculptures and put obscene inscriptions on the figures. One of the victims of actions of the vandal was forced several times to restore the tombstone on son's grave. The detainee could not explain the motive their actions.

Due to the increase in the number of administrative cases under Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (propaganda and public demonstration of Nazi symbols and symbols of banned organizations), we combine such cases into a single list for each month. In April 2021, in the Murmansk region, a resident of Kovdor was fined 1,000 rubles for posting Nazi symbols on the VKontakte social network. However, he did not pay the fine. He later ended up in a temporary detention center.

Members VI Yakunin Readings, it was proposed to create an institution of special prosecutors accountable to the president, “dealing with issues of monitoring compliance with civil rights at the stage of investigation of administrative, arbitration and criminal cases”. On March 6, 2021, the VI Yakunin Readings were held in Moscow.

March 31, 2021 Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg considered amendments to the law "On public green areas". MPs by majority votes rejected the amendment proposed by Yabloko deputy Boris Vishnevsky on inclusion in the list of green spaces for general use (ZNOP) of the territory Malinovka Park. This means that it is possible to build on the territory of the park, in including the construction of a temple, which was opposed for several years by local residents.

A resident of Vladivostok is suspected under Part 3 of Art. 354.1 of the Criminal Code. On April 1, 2021, the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for the Primorsky Territory reported that a criminal case was initiated against a 26-year-old resident of Vladivostok under Part 3 of Art. 354.1 of the Criminal Code (dissemination of information expressing clear disrespect for society about the days of Russia's military glory, committed publicly).

Bekir Mamutov is being persecuted for publishing a report by the UN Secretary General, which mentions the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, without indicating that the organization was banned. On April 1, 2021, it became known that the court district No. 3 of the World Court of the Kiev District of Simferopol is considering the case of Bekir Mamutov, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Kyrym" (Qırım), in respect of which a protocol was drawn up under Part 2 of Art.

March 31, 2021 in Slavyansky Legal Center in Moscow hosted a presentation of the report of the Information and Analytical Center "Sova" "Problems of the implementation of freedom of conscience in Russia in 2020". The report was presented by the director Center "Sova" Alexander Verkhovsky, author of the report Olga Sibireva and religious scholar, associate professor of the Department of the History of Religions of the Russian State Humanitarian University Boris Falikov.

In March 2021, according to the Sova Center, from the ideological motivated violence injured five people in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The editor was among the victims. Volya magazine Vlad Tupikin, who was attacked on March 27, 2021 years in Moscow.

On March 31, 2021, it became known that the deputies of the Kirov Regional Duma decided to transfer the Vyatka diocese 20 rooms on the street. Uritsky, 4 and Dynamo passage, 10 and 12. We are talking about residential buildings, the tenants of which are planned to be resettled, as well as about the premises sports school "Youth", for which a new building will be built. The transfer of most of the buildings should take place before 2023.

March 31, 2021 missionary The department of the Chelyabinsk diocese published an appeal in connection with the "activation" of Scientologists. The diocese connects their "activation" " with the onset of spring and the lifting of sanitary restrictions last year caused by the coronavirus epidemic . The authors of the appeal consider Scientology is one of " the "most odious and dangerous totalitarian sects .

Roskomnadzor checked the exhibition "Body World", which was opposed by several public organizations, including the Russian Orthodox Church, and recognized the exposition as scientific. The organizers of the exhibition set the age limit to visit "18+". On March 31, 2021, it became known that Roskomnadzor conducted an inspection of the exhibition “Body worlds / World of the Body" at VDNKh.

Viktor Maltsev was found guilty of publicly calling for anti-Semitic violence. On April 1, 2021, it became known that in the Orenburg Region, the Novoorsky District Court found Viktor Maltsev guilty under Part 2 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremism on the Internet) and sentenced him to one year in prison in a colony-settlement with deprivation of the right to administer websites for one year.

A student from Shchekino was fined 350,000 rubles. On March 30, 2021, the Shchekinsky District Court of the Tula Region found Nikita T., a student at the Tula Technological College, guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting ethnic hatred) and sentenced him to a fine of 350 thousand rubles, correctional labor for a year and a half and deprivation of the right to administer websites - also for a year and a half. The initiation of a criminal case became known in November 2020.