*We are publishing the decision of the Judicial Collegium for Civil Cases of the Supreme Court of Russia dated May 13, 2008, explaining the justification for suspending the publication of the Novy Peterburg newspaper in order to secure a claim for the liquidation of the media. The text of the definition is reproduced according to the publication of the official website of the Russian Armed Forces.

On December 29, 2008, in Nizhny Novgorod, members of the Movement against Illegal Migration (DPNI) announced that they were starting to organize “people’s self-defense” units. Paramilitary groups are planned to be organized in every district of the city from January 2009. As stated by the head of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of the DPNI Oleg Ivanov, the decision to organize “people’s self-defense groups” was made at the movement’s conference in Nizhny Novgorod.

On November 29, 2008, the investigating authorities of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for the Kurgan Region closed the investigation of a criminal case against the founder and head of one of the Slavic communities of Kurgan. He is charged with Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred).

On December 19, a conflict broke out between two groups of believers in the Irkutsk mosque, newspaper the Regional reports. One of the parishioners of the Irkutsk Cathedral Mosque, Magomed Nalgiev, expressed distrust to the imam of the mosque, Farit Mingaleev, and tried to use brute force. M. Nalgiev said that the imam should not read the Friday prayer. The assistant to the imam, who intervened in the conflict, was hit in the face. F.

On December 29, 2008, the Investigative Department of the Department of Internal Affairs for the Oktyabrsky District of Izhevsk closed the criminal case against the anti-fascist Andrey Petrov. This was announced by lawyer Rustem Valiullin. A. Petrov was suspected of attacking Sergei F. .

On December 26, 2008, the Magistrate's Court of Court District 383 of the Meshchansky District of the Central Administrative District of Moscow ruled that the Novy Knizhny LLC chain of stores and its director were brought to administrative responsibility under Art. 20.29 (production and distribution of extremist materials) of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation.

On December 23, 2008, it became known that the criminal case into the explosion on Korolev Street in Moscow in April 2008 was closed. The case under Article 216 of the Criminal Code (“violation of safety rules during construction and other work”) was dismissed due to the absence of a crime.

The investigating authorities of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for the Kurgan Region have completed the investigation of the criminal case against the founder and leader of the Slavic community "Flame of Svarga", the official website of the RF Investigative Committee reports. The case was initiated in July 2007 under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national, racial, religious hatred).

*We are publishing an extract from the decision of the Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation in one of the criminal cases of 2006 , in which all the accused were convicted on the basis of ethnic hatred. The convicts themselves denied this motive and, on this basis, tried to challenge the verdict. The ruling of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation explains why the prosecutor's office's imputation of the motive of hatred was correct.

On December 29, 2008, the investigative department for Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for the Sakhalin Region completed a preliminary investigation in a criminal case against 6 young people. The defendants were charged under Part 1 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public calls for the implementation of extremist activities), part 2 of Art.

On December 29, 2008, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Kirov recognized the leaflet beginning with the words "Soldiers and officers!" and ending with the words "Down with the occupation regime!" extremist material. The leaflets were found on April 24 and 25, 2008 in Kirov near the territory of military unit No. 6676, on the street. Labor, d. 73, at the checkpoint of the Syzran VVAUL, on the street. R. Erdyakova, at checkpoint No. 3 of military unit No. 81807, on the street. Gorky.

We publish the list of the guilty verdicts for violence issued in Russia in 2008 in which the hate motive was officially recognized. The list was made on the basis of the SOVA Center daily monitoring. In all, in 2008, we registered 33 guilty verdicts in 19 regions of Russia. Each entry is linked to Russian language SOVA reports. February 27, 2008, Barnaul. A verdict issued by a jury against 3 persons for murders of Armenia and Azerbaijan citizens.

On December 25, 2008, Irina Ustinova, chairman of a Moscow housing cooperative, publicly made anti-Semitic remarks about the people living in the house she manages. The chairman of the cooperative did not like the fact that the owner of one of the apartments rented out his living space to a family "whom she suspected of Jewish origin." When the head of the family complained to I.

On December 26, Ernest Valeev, Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation in the Volga Federal District (VFD), said that in 2008, investigators from a number of republics and regions of the district investigated and sent to court 19 criminal cases against members of the international terrorist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir. "The investigation has been completed and 19 criminal cases have been sent to the courts this year, some of them have already been decided," he said.

*We are publishing the text of the decision of the Central District Court of Chita dated July 10, 2008 on recognizing as extremist material the 2(19) issue of the newspaper Russkoe Zabaykalye dated February 22, 2008 as extremist material. (The newspaper is included in the federal list of extremist materials under N277). The text is not an official publication and is reproduced based on materials from right-wing radical sites.* Case No.