Sentences overturned by the court due to the partial decriminalization of Art. 282 CC

On December 27, 2018, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a package of laws on the partial decriminalization of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity) by introducing a mechanism of administrative prejudice. A new article was added to the Code of Administrative Offenses. 20.3.1, the disposition of which coincides with Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code. Cases under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code, begun before the entry into force of the signed laws, cannot be reclassified to a new art. 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, because it did not exist at the time of the initiation of the case, but can be closed on the basis of decriminalization.

In this list, we collect all sentences under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code, issued before the entry into force of the new laws and canceled by the courts after. We have collected cases terminated at the investigation stage here , and at the trial stage (including in the appellate instance) - here .

On September 25, 2019, the Magassky District Court of Ingushetia overturned the sentence for inciting hatred and enmity against Ossetians, issued under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code to Ingush activist Sarazhdin Sultygov, co-chairman of the Mekhk-Khel movement, and terminated the proceedings on his case. In June 2018, the Nalchik City Court of Kabardino-Balkaria found Sultygov guilty and fined him 150,000 rubles.
On June 11, 2019, the Tushinsky District Court of Moscow overturned the verdict in the case of video blogger Ilya Davydov (Maddison), who was convicted last July of inciting religious hatred.
On May 18, 2019, it became known that in the Stavropol Territory, the Kislovodsk City Court cleared the conviction of nationalist Vladimir Timoshenko. In November 2017, for inciting hatred against the social group " employees of institutions and institutions of state power " . a man was sentenced to two years in prison in a strict regime colony
On April 25, 2019, it became known that the Gagarinsky District Court of Moscow overturned the verdict in the case against Vladimir Ratnikov, the ex-leader of the ultra-right Black Block movement. In March 2018, he was found guilty of posting neo-Nazi songs on the social network VKontakte and sentenced to 160 hours of compulsory work.
On April 18, 2019, the Sovetsky District Court of Kazan satisfied the requirement to exclude Art. 282 of the Criminal Code from the accusation of blogger and supporter of the banned Artpodgotovka movement Albert Gyurjiyan. Recall that in September 2017, the court found him guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code, Art. 138.1 of the Criminal Code (illegal acquisition of technical means for secretly obtaining information), part 1 of Art. 222 of the Criminal Code (illegal acquisition of firearms), part 2 of Art. 205.2 of the Criminal Code (public calls for terrorist activities and public justification of terrorism). During the investigation, it was established that Gyurjiyan suffers from a mental illness, in connection with which the court sent him for compulsory treatment.
On April 10, 2019, the Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan of the Republic of Tatarstan granted the petition and expunged the criminal record from local resident Mansur Musin. On September 9, 2016, he was found guilty of posting comments on the VKontakte social network calling for violence against Russians in order to expel them from the territory of Tatarstan. The court then sentenced him to 2.5 years in prison.
On March 29, 2019, the Nevsky District Court of St. Petersburg overturned the verdict in the case against Dmitry Bobrov, ex-leader of the banned far-right movement People's Socialist Initiative (NSI). On September 11, 2017, the Krasnogvardeisky District Court of St. Petersburg found Bobrov guilty on two counts of inciting hatred and sentenced him to 2 years in prison in a strict regime colony. From the day of the verdict until January 2019, Bobrov was on the run.
On March 22, 2019, it became known that in Perm, the Dzerzhinsky District Court overturned the sentences handed down to local journalist Roman Yushkov in two criminal cases. Earlier, Yushkov was convicted of publishing the post “Say your “No” to a stranger” on LiveJournal and the article “Stop feeding strangers” on a social network.
On March 21, 2019, it became known that in Nizhny Novgorod, the Sovetsky District Court overturned the verdict against Vladislav Pozdnyakov, the creator of the "Men's State". On November 20, 2018, the man was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (incitement of hatred) and sentenced to 2 years of probation.
On March 13, 2019, it became known that the Borovichi District Court of the Novgorod Region overturned the verdict in the case against former prisoner Vladimir Lokhov, who in November 2018 was found guilty by the court of publishing xenophobic posts on the Internet directed against people from the Caucasus and Central Asia.
On February 20, 2019, it became known that the Petushinsky District Court of the Vladimir Region overturned the verdict in the case against Dmitry Dyomushkin, the ex-leader of the banned ultra-right organizations Association "Russians" and "Slavic Union", who in April 2017 was found guilty by the court of publishing two images on the Internet, qualified as "extremist".
On February 20, 2019, it became known that the Kumertau Interdistrict Court of Bashkortostan overturned the verdict in the case against the activist of the Bashkir national movement Sagit Ismagilov, who in 2017 the Leninsky District Court of Ufa found guilty of publishing two texts directed against the Tatars.
On February 14, 2019, it became known that the Sovetsky District Court of Krasnoyarsk overturned the verdict in the case against Artpodgotovka activist Oksana Pokhodun, who in April 2018 the Sovetsky District Court of Krasnoyarsk found guilty of publishing xenophobic images on the VKontakte network.
On February 14, 2019, the Omutninsky District Court of the Kirov Region overturned the verdict in the case under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code against the leader of the Tatar patriotic front "Altyn Urda" ("Golden Horde") Danis Safargali, whom on August 31, 2017 the Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan, among other things, found guilty of publishing materials on the VKontakte network directed against representatives of certain ethnic and religious groups, as well as - against the President of Russia, authorities and the media.
On February 8, 2019, it became known that in the city of Ufa of the Republic of Bashkortostan, a court overturned the verdict in the case against local resident Nikita Anikin, who on April 13, 2018, the Ordzhonikidzevsky District Court of Ufa found guilty of publishing xenophobic materials on the Internet directed against representatives of certain ethnic groups.
On February 7, 2019, the Zubovo-Polyansky District Court of the Republic of Mordovia overturned the verdict in the case against Vladimir Kvachkov, leader of the banned ultra-right movement Minin and Pozharsky People's Militia (NOMP), who on August 18, 2017, the Volga District Military Court found guilty of recording a video " Kvachkov in IK-5 Mordovia”, where the experts saw “signs of calls for violent actions against government officials” and humiliation of the honor and dignity of “Jews and Judaists”.
On January 23, in Crimea, the Yalta City Court overturned the verdict in the case against 54-year-old local activist Larisa Kitayskaya, who on December 25, 2017 was found guilty by the court of “spreading Russophobic ideas on the Internet.”
On January 16, 2019, the St. Petersburg City Court overturned the verdict in the case against local resident Ivan Barbakov, who was convicted on November 9, 2018 by the Kalininsky District Court of St. Petersburg of posting anti-Semitic images and a xenophobic video on a social network.

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