February 26, 2009 in Veliky Novgorod a criminal case under part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity).

A group of deputies of the Great Khural of Tuva appealed to the human rights center of the World Russian People's Cathedral (VRNS) with a message about the difficulties with the construction of an Orthodox cathedral in honor of the Iberian Icon of the Mother of God in Kyzyl. Construction stalled in 2006, at that time the readiness of the cathedral was 60%. According to the authors of the appeal, it is not only the lack of funds, but also the negative attitude of the local authorities.

On February 26, the Supreme Court of Tatarstan began a criminal trial against 12 people accused of belonging to Hizb ut-Tahrir.

The Primorsky Regional Court upheld the decision of the Pervorechensky District of Vladivostok on the expulsion of the Chief Rabbi of the Primorsky Territory Yisroel Zilberstein from the country. The decision of the court of first instance entered into force. Without waiting for the verdict of the regional court, on February 25, US citizen I. Zilberstein left Russia.

On February 27, 2009, the St. Petersburg City Court began considering the case gang of the Borovikov-Voevodin , which carried out nationalist attacks in 2004-2006. 14 people, 9 of whom are under arrest, are charged under Article 209 (banditry), Article 105 (murder), Article 282 (inciting national hatred or enmity) and Article 222 (illegal trafficking in firearms) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The case is heard by a jury.

In January, the imam of the city of Ust-Dzheguta (Karachay-Cherkessia), Anzor Karaketov, said that imams who nominated themselves for elections to the republican parliament were being pressured "in the form of conversations at different levels of power." He, as well as Akhmat Bidzhiev and Muratbi Laypanov, representatives of the clergy, running, respectively, in the Prikubansky and Zelenchuksky districts, were asked to "voluntarily withdraw their candidacy." The chairman of the republic's

In the first half of December 2008, the Leninsky District Court of Kursk passed a guilty verdict on Vadim Bochkov, who was charged under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity) for distributing disks with the film "Russia with a knife in the back. Jewish fascism and genocide of the Russian people." Recall that on December 20, 2007, this film was recognized as extremist and included in the Federal List of Extremist Materials .

On February 25, 2009, at an expanded meeting of the board of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, Prosecutor General of Russia Yuri Chaika presented a report on the results of the work of the prosecutor's office in 2008, which included statistics on extremist crimes and judicial practice on them. "In 2008, prosecutors revealed about 89,000 violations of the law on combating extremism and terrorism.