On February 24, 2010, it became known that Nikita Tikhonov and Evgenia Khasis, defendants in the case of the murder of Stanislav Markelov, were charged under paragraph “l” of Part 2 of Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder committed by a group of persons motivated by ideological hatred). Let us recall that in November 2009, N. Tikhonov and E. Khasis, suspected of murdering a lawyer and a journalist, were charged under art.

On February 13-14, 2010, VTsIOM conducted a survey on the need for military chaplains in the army. 1,600 people were surveyed in 140 localities in 42 regions, territories and republics of Russia. The survey showed that 45% of Russians believe that the modern Russian Army needs military chaplains. However, over the past four years the share of such respondents has decreased (from 53% in 2006).

On February 24, 2010, in Naberezhnye Chelny, the city court delivered a guilty verdict in the case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of hatred) against the leader of the organization Milli Mejlis (national parliament) of the Tatar people Fauzia Bayramova. Bayramova, 59, was given a one-year suspended sentence with a year's probation.

On February 24, 2010, it became known that a criminal case had been opened in Belaya Kalitva, Rostov Region, over extortion of money from the pastor of the Exodus Evangelical Church, Mikhail Pershin. The criminal case was initiated under Art. 163 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (extortion). The identities of the ransomware have been established. Recall that on February 16, M. Pershin was also attacked.

In early February 2010, attacks on natives of Tuva and China took place in Barnaul. are being checked for involvement in these crimes . Three young residents of the city of Barnaul, who were detained on February 17 and 18, 2010 on suspicion of attacking students from South Korea, On March 1, 2010, information appeared in the media that in the second half of January 2010, a Chinese student was attacked in Barnaul. The young man was attacked in the city center on Komsomolsky Prospekt.

On February 24, 2010, in Nyagan (Yugra), a court ordered the Internet provider OJSC "Regional Technical Center" to restrict access to "extremist" websites by adding IP address filtering rules to the border router. Earlier in Nyagan, violations were revealed in the work of an Internet provider that provided users with access to Internet resources recognized as extremist. The prosecutor filed a lawsuit to oblige the technical center to restrict access to these Internet sites.

On February 18, 2010, the Investigative Committee for the city of Ekaterinburg, the Investigative Committee of the ICR RF for the Sverdlovsk Region, initiated a criminal case under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity).

On January 22, 2010, in Kostroma, a verdict was passed in a criminal case against a 27-year-old local resident accused under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting ethnic hatred or enmity). The court found the young man guilty and sentenced him to 8 months. suspended sentence with a probationary period of 1 year 6 months.

On February 24, it became known that in the Krasnodar Territory, in the village of Afipsky, vandals destroyed 6 graves. Unknown people smashed crosses, fences and tombstones. An investigation is underway. Sources Vandals desecrated a cemetery in the Krasnodar Territory // NTK-news. February 24, 2010

On February 9, in Krasnodar, the head of the regional department of education and science, Tatiana Khlopova, and the ruling bishop of the Ekaterinodar diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Isidor (Kirichenko), signed a cooperation agreement.