On March 5, 2022, it became known that The Central District Court of Chelyabinsk upheld the decision to bring to administrative responsibility for the "illegal" missionary work of a local resident Evgeny Mamatbagin. The trial court found it guilty under Part 4 of Art. 5. 26 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (carrying out missionary activities in violation of the requirements legislation on freedom of conscience, freedom of religion and religious associations) January 19.

Seventy-year-old Lyudmila Salikova was sentenced to six years of probation. On March 17, 2022, the Chelyabinsk Regional Court upheld the judgment handed down on January 20, 2022 by the Snezhinsky City Court in the case of 70-year-old Jehovah's Witness Lyudmila Salikova. Salikova was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (organization of the activities of an extremist organization) and sentenced to six years' imprisonment with a suspended sentence of four years.

The relevant amendments were considered by the State Duma on March 22. On March 22, the State Duma considered and immediately adopted in the second and third readings a bill introducing amendments to the Criminal Code (CC) and the Code of Administrative Offenses (CAO), designed to protect the actions of Russian government agencies abroad from attacks. For This expanded the composition of Art. 207.3 and 280.3 of the Criminal Code and Art.

The reason was the application of an anti-war inscription on the foundation of the Kremlin tower. On March 19, 2022, it became known about the detention of a 27-year-old Tulyak Dmitry Kozyrev, who inflicted on March 14 on the foundation of the Spasskaya Tower of the Tula Kremlin anti-war inscription. A case was initiated against him under Part 2 of Art. 214 UK (vandalism motivated by hostility, probably political); he reportedly pleaded guilty.

Nikolai Vorotnev was detained as a suspect in painting howitzers near the artillery museum in the colors of the Ukrainian flag. On March 19, 2022, he was detained in St. Petersburg as a suspect for Part 2 Art. 214 of the Criminal Code (vandalism motivated by ideological, political and national hatred of Russian military personnel participating in a special operation in Ukraine) local resident Mykola Vorotnev.

In the Kirov region, a criminal case has been initiated on the publication on the VKontakte network of comments calling for xenophobic violence. In March 2022, it became known that a criminal case had been opened in the Kirov region under Part 2 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremism).

March 17, 2022 it became known that the head of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Russia, Archbishop Dietrich Brauer, left Russia because of disagreement with the special operation on the territory of Ukraine. In an interview with the website of the Evangelical Lutheran local church of Württemberg, he said that he wanted to release a joint other religious leaders of Russia declared a declaration for peace, but others refused.

The activities of the corporation are prohibited in Russia. On March 21, 2022, the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow satisfied the suit of the Prosecutor General's Office to recognize Meta as an extremist company (which includes the social networks Instagram and Facebook, as well as WhatsApp messenger) is an extremist organization. The decision must be implemented immediately.