On May 12, 2009, the Judicial Collegium of the Supreme Court of Yakutia considered the cassation appeal of the DPNI-Yakutia coordinator Sergei Yurkov (he is also the head of the public organization "Russian Community") against the decision of the Neryungri Court of February 16, 2009. The cassation appeal was partially satisfied, Sergei Yurkov was sentenced to a year and a half on probation. He is released from custody in the courtroom.

Kemerovo Muslims issued a statement regarding the actions of regional officials who put pressure on Muslim organizations. The authors of the statement believe that Ekaterina Stas, chairman of the Committee for Interaction with Religious Organizations of the Kemerovo Region, intends to liquidate the Kuzbass kazyyat of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Asian part of Russia (SAM AChR).

was transferred to the Angarsk City Court On May 12, 2009, in Irkutsk, a criminal case about an attack by ultra-rightists on an environmental camp near Angarsk, as a result of which anti-fascist Ilya Borodaenko was killed. Recall that the case involves 20 people, 11 of whom were minors at the time of the crime. Among them are residents of Irkutsk, Angarsk, Usolye-Sibirsky, Ust-Orda, Zheleznogorsk-Ilimsky, the village of Sredny and the Republic of Buryatia.

Archimandrite Venedikt (Penkov), the abbot of the Holy Vvedensky stauropegial monastery Optina Pustyn, is trying to evict the inhabitants of house No. 8 in the village of Optino (Kozelsky district, Kaluga region). The priest seeks to recognize the state of the house as emergency in order to relocate its residents under a social program to the regional center. In addition, the monastery requires the demolition of nearby sheds.

On May 5, the Saratov branch of the Center for Religious Studies issued a statement regarding the holding in the region from May 1 to May 31 of the action "Feel the power of change", organized by the community of Protestant churches.

On one of the rocks in the southern part of Sakhalin, unknown people painted a fascist swastika. This was discovered in early May 2009 during a route check. This became known from the message of the chief of staff of the "Young Guard of United Russia" Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Konstantin Saprykin, who promised that the youth climbing the Chekhov Peak would paint over the fascist symbol. Sources Krupyanskaya M. Sakhalin youth once again conquered Chekhov Peak // RIA Sakhalin-Kurils. 2009. May 12.

In the April issue of the magazine "NATIONAL BUSINESS in Tyumen" (declared circulation - 7 thousand copies) a fragment of Adolf Hitler's book "My Struggle" was published.

On May 11, a package was found on the territory of the Nizhny Novgorod synagogue. Arriving at the scene, the policemen found in the package "a tow, similar to a strand of light brown hair, as well as a note with extremist content." An investigation into what happened has been launched. Recall that the Nizhny Novgorod synagogue was repeatedly attacked . Sources Extremists planted a note in the synagogue // Time N. 2009. May 12.

On May 8, the Mironositsky cemetery in Pskov was desecrated. "Young guys were sitting, drinking, and one of them began to break graves, break crosses and monuments. This noise was heard by residents of nearby houses and called the police, who arrived, and the young people were detained," the rector of the cemetery church, the priest, told Pskovskaya News Feed. Sergey Ivanov. Vandals destroyed 11 graves. , Pskov region , was desecrated Recall that in March, a cemetery in the city of Sebezh .

On May 6, 2009, the St. Petersburg City Court dismissed the prosecutor's complaint and upheld the decision of the Dzerzhinsky Court to recognize the search at the Memorial Research Center in connection with the criminal case against the Novy Peterburg newspaper as illegal. The hard drives confiscated during the search were also returned to Memorial. In addition, the City Court once again dismissed Memorial's complaint about declaring the search warrant itself illegal.

On March 2, 2009, the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for the Nizhny Novgorod Region opened a criminal case against Archimandrite Seraphim (Levitskikh) under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting national hatred or enmity).

In April-May 2009, neo-Nazi graffiti ("14th Guard" "with various symbols of enmity", National Socialist swastikas, SS, etc.) d.). In addition, the city newspaper Novosti Sochi published an interview with Vadim Ivanov, director of the Center for Leisure for Children and Youth, on the problem of "youth extremism." It follows from the interview that at least one Nazi skinhead group operates in the city - WWSS ("White Brotherhood of Sochi Skinheads"), the number of which, however, is unclear.

The prosecutor's office of the Leninsky district of Tyumen took measures in response to the publication in the April issue of the magazine "National Business" in the heading "Person" of an excerpt from A. Hitler's book "My Struggle". On May 8, 2009, the prosecutor's office of the Leninsky district of Tyumen submitted to the publisher of the magazine, Grand Media Ltd LLC, a submission to eliminate violations of the law and punish the perpetrators in a disciplinary manner.

On May 11, 2009, in Nizhniy Novgorod, unidentified persons planted a package containing an "extremist note" on the territory of the synagogue. The package was discovered by an assistant to our rabbi, who called police officers to the scene. Law enforcement officers found in the package "a tow, similar to a strand of light brown hair, as well as a note with extremist content" .

May 7, 2009 in Krasnoyarsk environmentalists - the creators of the site "Dam. Net!" - were summoned to the police department to give explanations. The audit is being carried out in connection with a letter to the Krasnoyarsk administration from RusHydro, which accused environmentalists of extremism on the basis of their activities against the construction of the Evenki hydroelectric power station.