On the fact of desecration of graves in the cemetery of the village of Pushkarnoye near Belgorod, a criminal case was opened under Art. 244 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (desecration of the bodies of the dead and their burial places). On suspicion of involvement in the crime, two teenagers (14 and 15 years old), who were previously registered with the police, were detained.

On October 15, 2009, the Orenburg Regional Court sentenced five Nazi skinheads who participated in racist beatings of people and filmed attacks on video for posting on the Internet. Only three of the five accused were punished.

On October 12, the day after the elections to the Moscow City Duma, the "Deacon's House" built in 1813, located in the security zone of Kadashevskaya Sloboda, was demolished in Moscow. This was announced on October 16 at a press conference by the defenders of the Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Kadashi. The "Deacon's House" was destroyed during the clearing of the site for the construction of the "Five Capitals" complex, which the public has long opposed .

On October 16, 2009, the city court of Arzamas returned to the prosecutor's office the criminal case against Dmitry Isusov, charged under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 (participation in the activities of an extremist organization). The court found errors in the spelling of the names of the accused and the investigator in the case file. In addition, the National Bolshevik Party was named the National Bolshevik Party. Sources Redo.

On October 15, the governor of the Pskov region, Andrei Turchak, during a meeting with journalists, announced the plans of the city administration to move the beach from the walls of the Mirozhsky Monastery . By the spring of 2010, the main gate of the monastery should be restored. According to the head of the region, “it is wrong for naked citizens to sunbathe in front of the entrance to the monastery.” A. Turchak did not name the place where the new beach will be located.

The Center for Combating Extremism of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Perm Territory announced on October 19 an action to provide psychological assistance to people who were under the influence of "destructive totalitarian sects." A round-the-clock "hot line" is open for residents of the region. The ATC guarantees the anonymity of the callers and the confidentiality of the transmitted information.

On October 15, the Governor of St. Petersburg, Valentina Matvienko, announced the construction of a chapel on the site of the blockade crematorium in Moscow's Victory Park. Recall that for a long time the Orthodox community protested against the privatization of this park and demanded that a church be built on this site. In April 2009, V. Matvienko announced her agreement in principle to the construction. Sources The Governor of St.

On October 14, 2009, it became known that the prosecutor's office of the Bryansk region sent an application to the Bezhitsky District Court for the recognition of extremist materials distributed by the Consumer Society and the Neuro-Society KoloGrad. Information about the activities of the society was received by the prosecutor's office from the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Bryansk region. The District Attorney's Office conducted an investigation.

The chairman of the local religious organization of Novy Urengoy "Nur Islama" Dmitry Chernomorchenko sent an open letter to the deputies of the City Duma, the State Duma of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, presidential envoy Nikolai Vinnichenko and the head of the presidential administration, Sergei Naryshkin. He asks the authorities to prevent a conflict provoked by local officials between Muslim organizations in the city.

On October 15, 2009, UN Human Rights Committee examined the sixth periodic report of the Russian Federation on measures taken to implement the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. We publish the briefing points of the SOVA Center for Information and Analysis. Addressing anti-extremism practice in Russia, we have to take into account the complex nature of national anti-extremist legislation - it combines counteraction to illegal violent action and illegal speech.

On October 15, 2009, hearings were opened in Geneva at the UN Human Rights Committee on Russia's regular report on compliance with the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The Russian delegation began with brief speeches.

In mid-October 2009, the Leninsky District Court of Perm suspended proceedings the . against the chairman of the Perm Civil Chamber, Igor Averkiev Recall that he is charged with Part 1 of Art.

On October 16, Credo.ru, citing the press service of the Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses, reported that the literature of Jehovah's Witnesses had been seized in Kurgan. Representatives of law enforcement agencies confiscated literature at Witnesses' meeting places. Let us recall that on September 11, by a court decision, the Taganrog organization of Jehovah's Witnesses was liquidated as extremist. After that, participants in the meeting of the "Witnesses" were detained near St.