On April 27, 2009, a criminal case was initiated in the Arkhangelsk region under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity) against a local student Pavel Ya., who created a nationalist group in one of the social networks (the Vkontakte website).

On May 5, 2009, it became known that Roskomsvyaznadzor had issued a warning to the Vyatskaya Special Newspaper about the inadmissibility of extremist activity "for publishing information about the activities of the National Bolshevik Party and its members in the issues for 2008 and the first quarter of 2009" . This, apparently, is about the publication , for which the editor of the newspaper Nikolai Golikov was found guilty under Art.

On May 4-5, 2009, the OSCE conference “Hate Crimes - Effective Implementation of Legislation” was held in Vienna. The conference opened with an introductory report by Professor Fred Lawrence (USA), the leitmotif of which was the relevance of the very problem of political recognition by states of the presence of hate crimes. It is this kind of political recognition of the problem, according to the speaker, that is the first step towards solving it. In his report, Mr.

On the night of May 6, 2009 in Moscow, five young people threw bottles of flammable liquid at the windows of the Perovsky Military Commissariat, located on Lazo Street. A total of five bottles were thrown, but the liquid did not ignite. A search is on for the arsonists. A version of an arson attempt by members of an "extremist youth group" is being considered .

On May 6, the Orenburg Regional Court refused to satisfy the director of the Uma publishing house, Aslanbek Ezhaev, in satisfying the complaint against the decision of the Buguruslan City Court to refuse to restore the deadline for appealing the court decision of August 6, 2007, which recognized a number of Muslim publications as extremist, including the book “The Personality of a Muslim.” . Let us recall that in July 2008 a criminal case was initiated against A. Ezhaev under Art.

On May 6, 2009, it became known that in Moscow 13 members of the Nazi group were charged under Part 2 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity). Also, gang members, 11 of whom are minors, are suspected of involvement in the murders in Moscow of ten citizens, mostly of Asian appearance. The issue of bringing charges under Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder). These crimes were committed from April 2007 to January 2008.

At the end of April, two employees of the charitable foundation at the Kazan defense enterprise OAO Zavod Elekon were fired for wearing a headscarf. The general director of the enterprise, A. Kolesova, recommended that the rest of the employees, who dress in accordance with the traditions of Islam, look for a new job.

Speaking at the “government hour” in the State Duma on May 6, Minister of Culture Alexander Avdeev touched upon the possibility of bringing Andrei Rublev’s “Trinity” icon from the Tretyakov Gallery to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra for several days. He recalled that relocation is possible only with the consent of the restorers, because the icon is in critical condition.

On May 6, 2009, in Moscow, three men attacked a 67-year-old woman from the Republic of Congo, shouting a "Negro" . The men began to insult the woman, approaching her from the other end of the trolleybus. She tried to get away from them. However, the men attacked her and beat her in the face and body. One of the men stole her bag. Other passengers did not interfere in what was happening, some laughed. The driver stopped the trolley bus and took the victim to the subway.

In the early morning of May 5, 2009, an attempt was made in Cheboksary to set fire to a police station on the street of the 324th Rifle Division in the Novoyuzhny district. A group of young people threw several Molotov cocktails towards the site. The building of the local police station, which at that moment had no employees, caught fire outside. The fire was put out by bystanders, who called the police.

On May 6, 2009, it became known that teenagers suspected of murdering a citizen of Uzbekistan were detained in the Moscow region. A 14-year-old lyceum student, an 18-year-old student at a Moscow university, and a 16-year-old evening school student were detained.

The Vladimir-Suzdal Museum-Reserve and the Vladimir diocese have entered into an agreement in order to preserve the frescoes of the Assumption Cathedral of Vladimir. The diocese promises to cancel evening services in the cathedral, except for public holidays, and the Museum Reserve will limit tourist visits: everyone who wants to see the unique frescoes will now be able to do this only as part of excursion groups.

On May 6, 2009, the Orenburg Regional Court dismissed the complaint of the publisher Aslambek Ezhaev against the decision of the Buguruslan City Court to refuse to restore the time limit for appealing the decision to recognize the book of Muhammad Ali al-Hashimi "The Personality of a Muslim in the form that Islam seeks to give it with the help of the Koran and Sunnah". Recall that Ezhaev himself was cleared of suspicions of extremism.

On May 1, the report of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom was published. The authors of the report mentioned Russia in the list of 13 countries "of particular concern" to the US administration due to "egregious violations" of the principles of religious freedom. One of the reasons for Russia's inclusion in this list was the creation of an Expert Council under the Ministry of Justice.