On April 9, 2009, in the Novgorod region, a criminal case against 32-year-old Vitaly Grigoriev was sent to court, accused under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity). The investigation found that in December 2007, Grigoriev posted over 100 neo-Nazi files on the Internet. The defendant fully admits his guilt. Sources Novgorod court to consider extremism case // REGIONS.Ru. 2009. April 10.

The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation has allocated about 45 million rubles for the repair of cultural heritage sites in the Pskov region.

In early April, in the park at the Pulkovo Observatory near St. Petersburg, an Orthodox cross erected in memory of the White Guards who died at the Pulkovo Heights was desecrated. The cross was cut down and thrown on the spot. “The cross is heavy, it’s impossible to cut it down alone. And the Cross was cut down, apparently by a grinder. The cut was made professionally, you can see it from the cut. About twenty people participated in the cross.

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On April 10, 2009, at a press conference, Boris Kozinenko, head of the FSB department for the Sverdlovsk region, said that members of the Patriots of Russia and Volkssturm groups were "charged with 41 episodes of crimes, including seven murders . " Recall that members of these neo-Nazi groups were detained in the Sverdlovsk region in February-March 2008. Unfortunately, the specific episodes on which charges have been brought, as well as the number of the accused, have not yet been named.

On January 29, the decision of the Central Court of Khabarovsk to recognize the leaflet "Beware of the sect! "International Society for Krishna Consciousness"" issued by the regional branch of the "Young Guard of United Russia" as extremist material came into force. Leaflets were distributed on the embankment of the Amur River during the festival of Indian culture in the summer of 2008.

On April 10, the Slavyansk Legal Center hosted a press conference "Does Russia Need an Inquisition Court" dedicated to the creation of an Expert Council under the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation.

A resident of Kazan filed a lawsuit to extend the term of the Soviet passport. The reason was the refusal of the administration of the Federal Migration Service for Tatarstan to paste today's photo of the owner into the old-style passport. A man does not want to receive a new type of passport due to religious beliefs: he is not satisfied with the presence of the “personal code” column, the pattern in which he sees the “number of the beast” and the absence of the “nationality” column.

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On April 10, 2009, in Izhevsk (Udmurt Republic), a preliminary investigation into a criminal case on the attack of 18-year-old neo-Nazi Rustam Demin on anti-fascist Sergei Kapshunov was completed. The criminal case was initiated under s. "d, e" part 2 of Art. 111 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm out of hooligan motives based on ideological hatred and enmity).

On April 10, 2009, the Moscow City Court held a preliminary hearing in a criminal case against a group of Nazi skinheads accused of a nationalist attack on two natives of Dagestan. According to investigators, Alexey Akishin, Pavel Golovanov, Daniil Tevyansky, Kirill Afonin, Andrey Pochukaev and Vladimir Potokin in June 2007 attacked two natives of Dagestan in the Orudyevo-Moscow commuter train. As a result, one of the victims died and the other was hospitalized.

In April 2009, calls for nationalist and anti-government pogroms "scheduled" for May 5, 2009 began to spread on right-wing websites on behalf of members of Russkaya Volya. Right-wing radicals call on their associates to set fire to the buildings of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSB, government agencies, branches of United Russia, the killing and beating of migrants, explosions, vandalism and any actions that could become "resonant".