We are publishing the text of the decision of the Judicial Collegium for Civil Cases of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on the cassation complaint of representatives of the organization of Jehovah's Witnesses of Taganrog dated December 8, 2009. Let us remind you that the collegium decided to uphold the decision of the Rostov Regional Court of September 11, 2009, and the cassation appeal - without satisfaction. SUPREME COURT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Case No.

We publish a list of documents available on our website: texts of expertise, court decisions - on the topic of unlawful persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. Expertise: The text of the examination dated May 13, 2009, conducted in the framework of a criminal case under Part 1 of Art.

On January 12, 2010, the Anapa inter-district prosecutor approved the indictment against Viktor Yushkin, accused under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity). The criminal case was sent to the Anapa city court for consideration on the merits.

In January 2010, Roskomnadzor announced that in 2009 they had issued a warning about the inadmissibility of extremist activities by the editorial staff of the Kommersant Vlast magazine for publishing an interview with Issa Kodzoev "The thread was broken with the Ingush" in No. 43 (846) dated November 2, 2009 .

We are publishing a selection of arbitration court decisions in the case of the Yakutsk Vecherniy newspaper, which tried to challenge the anti-extremist warning. The texts of court decisions are reproduced according to the official publication on the website of the Supreme Arbitration Court. Of them. For ethical reasons, personal data has been removed.

On January 21, 2010, the Trubchevsky District Court of the Bryansk Region sentenced minor Alexander V. (b. 1992) for hooliganism motivated by national hatred against a native of Azerbaijan and an attack on Boris Sorvikhin in July 2009. (B. Sorvihin died from his wounds).

On January 19, 2010, on the anniversary of the tragic death of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova, an anti-fascist action was held in Moscow dedicated to their memory.

In Krasnodar, the prosecutor's office sent a criminal case against Nazi skinheads Vladislav Gmyr and Pavel Vetrov from the Pit Bull community to the Sovetsky District Court for consideration on the merits. On December 31, 2009, the deputy prosecutor of the city of Krasnodar approved the indictment against the young people under Part 1 of Art. 1, 2 art.

On January 21, 2010, it became known that the Anti-Sectarian Republican Center of the Syktyvkar Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church was distributing leaflets accusing Protestants of murder, occultism and hypnosis. First of all, the accusations relate to Christians of the evangelical faith - Pentecostal (PETEC).

On January 12, 2010, a list of warnings issued to media editors in 2009 was published on the website of the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor). Warnings were issued on December 16, 2009 by the editors of the newspaper "Open text" for the publication of an article by Yu. Morozov "On saving the soul in the shower pavilion" in the issue of December 29, 2008.

In December 2009, the Regional Department of Education, Culture and Youth Policy of the Belgorod Region issued an order to begin an experiment called “Regional model for the implementation of spiritual and moral education of children in the preschool education system.” The order appeared as a measure to implement the decision of the regional coordinating council for the development of innovative infrastructure in the field of education of the Department of Education, Culture and Youth Policy of

was published January 19, 2010 on the website of the Ryazan Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve, a statement by a team of employees of various museums regarding the transfer of works of ancient art to the church.

On January 20, 2010, the head of the Moscow police department, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, at a press conference devoted to summarizing the work of the Moscow police in 2009, stated that in the capital in 2009 "26 racially motivated murders were committed." According to him, in 2009 there were 62 attacks on "persons of non-Slavic appearance" in the city. Of these, 26 were murders and 25 were deliberately inflicted severe bodily harm, of which 5 resulted in the death of the victims.

On January 18, the Church and Archaeological Museum of the History of the Nizhny Novgorod Diocese was donated pre-revolutionary church vestments from the funds of the Nizhny Novgorod State Academic Drama Theater named after M. Gorky. Previously, they were used as theatrical props. The initiator of their transfer to the museum of the diocese was the director of the theater Boris Kainov.

On January 2, 2010, employees of the Orion public cultural and educational center in the city of Ryazan sent an open letter to the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation A. Avdeev in defense of the Ryazan Kremlin Museum-Reserve. The authors of the letter consider it inappropriate to transfer some cultural heritage objects into the ownership of the church.