On December 23, 2009, the State Duma adopted in the third reading the bill “On amending Article 35 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation” (changing the territorial jurisdiction of a criminal case).

On December 23, 2009, in the Nizhny Novgorod region, a criminal case was brought to court against three 18-year-old local residents Dmitry Korobkin (Zemlegora) , Alexander Kukin and Yegor Voronin, who committed a number of crimes motivated by ethnic hatred. The investigation of the criminal case was carried out by the SO of the RF Investigative Committee for the Nizhny Novgorod Region. Neo-Nazis were charged under Part 1, Part 2, Art.

On December 23, 2009, it became known that a criminal case was being investigated in Kirov against Kurganov, a 23-year-old user of the VKontakte network, who posted neo-Nazi materials on his page in December 2008. According to the prosecutor of the Oktyabrsky district of the city, among the posted materials are "a swastika, the anthem of the Third Reich, video clips about skinheads . " Kurganov was calculated and arrested. Sources Zaitseva A.

On December 23, 2009, the ROAC published a response to the claim of the Department of Property and Land Relations of the Administration of the Vladimir Region on the release of the buildings of six rural churches of the ROAC in the Suzdal region. As a basis for its claims, the Department pointed out that the ROAC had no legal grounds for using the temple buildings. In his response, the representative of the ROAC in court cites arguments to refute the claim.

On December 23, 2009, it became known that in Adygeya, the Teuchezhskaya interdistrict prosecutor's office, together with operational officers of the Center for Combating Extremism of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Adygeya, conducted an inspection of the activities of the local religious organization "Jehovah's Witnesses" in the city of Adygeysk.

On December 24, 2009, in St. Petersburg, in the entrance of residential building 9 on the Admiralteisky Canal embankment, residents found racist slogans, swastikas and Nazi symbols on the walls of the second floor. Similar inscriptions appeared on the wall at the entrance. The doors of several apartments were covered with paint. On one of the steps of the stairs was written in Persian the word "Muhammad". The residents filed a complaint with the police and informed the district police officer.

We publish a chronicle of convictions handed down under Art. 214 (vandalism) and 244 (desecration of the bodies of the dead and their burial places), which take into account the motive of hatred.

On December 22, the Snezhinsky City Court of the Chelyabinsk Region issued a verdict in the case of A. Sofronov, who was accused of inciting national, racial and religious hatred or enmity. The defendant pleaded not guilty. The court sentenced A. Sofronov to 120 hours of compulsory work.

On December 14, 2009, the Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Ingushetia announced that it had applied to the federal court of the Nazran District with a request to restrict access to several Internet sites and proxy servers. These are the following sites: www.hunafa.com - for articles "We have no doubts about our victory...!" and "Build Sharia with your soul", www.ingushetiya.ru - for the articles "It becomes more difficult after the first fifteen years" (author M-R.

We publish a list of convictions for public incitement to extremist activity (Article 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) issued in 2009 (with the exception of those that we consider unlawful). So far, there are few such sentences in Russia: in 2009, were handed down in 8 regions only 9 sentences of Russia , and only two of them were accompanied by real sanctions, all the other convicts got off with suspended sentences.

We publish a list of convictions for violent crimes in which the motive of national and religious hatred was officially recognized, issued in Russia in 2009. The list was compiled based on the monitoring materials of the SOVA Center and is given in chronological order. In total, in 2009 we became aware of 46 guilty verdicts handed down in 25 regions of the country. A list of convictions for 2008 can be found in the "Publications" section. January 2009, Meshchovsk, Kaluga region.

On December 23, 2009, it became known that prisoner Khurum Rashid, who is serving a term in the institution. FBU IK-4 in Mari El appealed to the "Islamic Committee" in connection with the persecution against him by employees on religious grounds. He stated that during the searches, religious literature belonging to him was deliberately spoiled. In addition, employees regularly offend the religious feelings of Muslims, and also prohibit prayers. H.

We publish a list of convictions handed down in 2009 under Art. 282.2 (participation and organization of activities of an organization recognized by the court as extremist), which, in our opinion, are unlawful. We are not against Art. 282.2 as such. However, there are organizations whose very recognition as extremist/terrorist, in our opinion, is unlawful.

On December 23, 209, the Teuchezhsky District Prosecutor's Office of the city of Adygeysk conducted an inspection of the activities of the local religious organization of Jehovah's Witnesses. The founders and head of the organization received 11 warnings about the inadmissibility of extremist activity. During the inspection, publications of Jehovah's Witnesses were found and confiscated in the organization, which were recognized as extremist by the Rostov Regional Court.

On December 24, it became known that Bishop Longin of Saratov and Volsk and the first deputy chairman of the Central Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Russia Albir Krganov were included in the new composition of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation. They were elected from regional and interregional public organizations. Let us recall that earlier several representatives of religious organizations were included in the "presidential" list of members of the Public Chamber .