In Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, after a speech by an Orthodox priest, a local police officer “banned” a Protestant church

In the Surgut district of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug after the speech at a meeting of an Orthodox priest who announced that Baptists, Pentecostals and Jehovah's Witnesses "interfered with our victory", the district police officer came to the Protestant pastor and declared that his faith was "forbidden on territory of the Russian Federation".  

May 9, 2017 in the village of Ugut, Surgut district Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug spoke at a rally dedicated to Victory Day Orthodox priest Alexy Ekimov. In his speech, he stated that in Russia has many "different faiths divorced" , and among them there are those who "interfered with our victory." Among The last priest mentioned Baptists, Pentecostals and Jehovah's Witnesses.

After this speech, the local district police officer arrived home to Baptist pastor Dmitry Mannikov and offered to proceed to secession, because his faith is "prohibited on the territory of the Russian Federation" . Already in the department, having made several calls, the district police officer announced to the pastor that his faith still not prohibited, and allowed to leave, having previously taken an explanatory and a promise to bring documents for the organization the next day.

After publicizing the fact of preparing a statement with a request to initiate a criminal case against an Orthodox priest under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of hostility), Archpriest Anthony Isakov, Dean of the Surgut Deanery, apologized to Sergei Kubat, Bishop of the Russian Union of Evangelical Christian Baptists in Surgut, and promised that the priest who spoke at the rally would be "brought to official responsibility . " Sources

• IN THE KHANTY-MANSIYSKY DISTRICT THE POP DECLARED PROTESTANTS AS ENEMIES WHO "MIDDLED VICTORY" IN WWII // Facebook of lawyer Konstantin Andreev. May 9, 2017
• SURGUT ORTHODOX APOLOGIES FOR OFFENSIVE STATEMENTS BY THE PRIEST TO PROTESTANTS IN THE VILLAGE OF UGUT // Ibid. May 11th.