On January 15, employees of the prosecutor's office and the Department of Internal Affairs of the Petrogradsky district of St. Petersburg carried out a test purchase and subsequently confiscated 18 books and brochures from the Kifa Orthodox literature store. According to the police, this store "is selling literature that has signs of inciting ethnic hatred, fascism and anti-Semitism." The following were seized and sent for examination: Russian DPNI. M., DPNI, 2009, 128 p. Nikolay Bogolyubov.

On January 20, 2010, the press service of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Chelyabinsk region reported that a 34-year-old resident of Chelyabinsk was detained in Zlatoust (Chelyabinsk region) for distributing xenophobic leaflets and the newspaper Nasha Russkaya Pravda-2 from January 7 to 19, 2010.

On January 19, 2010, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Tatarstan, Asgat Safarov, stated that extremist groups are of great concern to law enforcement agencies. In particular, he put the anti-fascist movement on a par with officially banned (fairly or not) organizations: “Now we are more concerned not with purely criminal groups, but with those sprouts of extremism that manifest themselves among the youth, these are the same skinheads, nazbols, RNE, antifas and others".

In January, a textbook on “Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture” was published for grades 10-11, written by the leader of the Orthodox corps of the “Nashi” movement, Boris Yakemenko. According to the author, “the first part of the textbook has already been tested in a large number of schools in a number of regions.” The book was published in 1000 copies. Let us remind you that the Ministry of Education and Science is developing a defense-industrial complex textbook for 4th grade. The text by A.

On December 28, 2009, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Murmansk refused to satisfy the claim of the "Church of Evangelical Christians in Murman" in satisfaction of the claim for the protection of business reputation and compensation for moral damage against the newspapers "AiF North-West", "AiF on Murman" and an employee of the Murmansk diocese Anton Tuchkov.

The Ministry of Education of the Krasnoyarsk Territory has published the results of a written survey of schoolchildren's parents on their choice as part of an experimental study of "Fundamentals of Religious Cultures and Secular Ethics." According to the results of the survey, 14,646 fourth-graders (58.2%) will study secular ethics, 5,417 (21.5%) - the history of religions, 4,804 (19.1%) - the basics of Orthodox culture.

was once again updated on the website of the Russian Ministry of Justice On January 20, 2010 , the Federal List of Extremist Materials . No. 474 was included in it. Update of the Federal List of Extremist Materials Publication "The word about freedom", posted on the officially registered Internet page on the site "www.Livejornal.com" (decree of the Central District Court of Kemerovo of 10/15/2009).

On January 19, 2010, actions were held in Russia in memory of who were killed a year ago. lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, Two pickets were held in Moscow , which were agreed with the city authorities. The actions were attended by anti-fascists, anarchists, politicians, human rights activists, and others.

Representatives of non-governmental organizations in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Azerbaijan and Tajikistan issued a statement condemning the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia on charges of extremism. The full text of the statement "Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia: Rehabilitated Persons Again Subjected to Repressions" and the list of signatories can be published on our website in the "Religion in a Secular Society" section .

In mid-January 2010, Roskomnadzor announced the issuance of a warning about the inadmissibility of extremist activity by the editorial office of the economic information agency "Business News of the Republic of Komi" for readers' comments on an interview published on the agency's website with Leonid Zilberg, chairman of the Association of National Cultural Associations of Komi. Some of the comments are indeed openly racist and anti-Semitic, calling for discrimination and violence.

We are publishing the text of the statement of human rights activists "Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia: Rehabilitated Subjects Again to Repressions". Earlier, the "Caucasian Knot" published a draft of the text without the consent of the authors of the statement.