In March 2010, at least 15 people were injured in racist and neo-Nazi attacks, three of whom were killed (in March 2009, three were killed and at least 30 were injured). Violent incidents were recorded in Moscow (2 dead, 6 injured), St. Petersburg (2 injured), Volgograd (at least 3 injured), Yaroslavl (1 dead) and Murmansk (1 injured). Since the beginning of the year, violent racist and neo-Nazi incidents have occurred in 20 regions of Russia.

On March 30, 2010, the prosecutor's office of the city of Syzran, Samara Region, announced that the court had satisfied the lawsuit against Internet providers Kvadro LLC and Eurolink + LLC to block access to the site that published brochures by Alexei Dobrovolsky, previously recognized as extremist materials . We don't know which site it is. In our opinion, this case reflects the imperfection of our legal instruments.

On March 29, 2010, a bill was prepared for submission to the State Duma of the Russian Federation, proposing to supplement the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation with Article 354.1 "Rehabilitation of Nazism". This is not the first attempt to criminalize the rehabilitation of Nazism.

On March 31, 2010, in Samara, a sentence was passed under paragraph "b" part 2 of article 116 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (beatings inflicted on the motive of national hatred) to Ruslan Alyakin, Pavel and Anton Zaitsev, who beat a citizen of Kyrgyzstan on April 21, 2009 . The court sentenced Alyakin to 160 hours of compulsory work, and to Zaitsevs - 120 hours of compulsory work each. The verdict did not enter into force.

On March 31, in Voronezh, employees of the Center for Combating Extremism of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate detained the leaders of the Stolen Bread organization, the press service of the Regional Central Internal Affairs Directorate reports.

March 31, 2010 for consideration by the Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan sent a criminal case against three Nazi skinheads who beat in February 2010 natives of Tajikistan motivated by hatred. The defendants are charged with part 2 of article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (hooliganism committed on the basis of national hatred) and paragraph "b" part 2 of article 116 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (beatings inflicted on the motive national hatred).

On March 26, 2010, a ruling was issued refusing to open a criminal case against an Orthodox priest who had written the word "sect" next to the building of the Living Faith Protestant Church in Penza. The resolution says that during the check, the priest Oleg Andreev was interviewed, who told the police that on March 17, 2010 from 16.00 to 20.00 he was serving in the temple and does not know who made the inscription on the fence "Beware of the sect!" and is not involved in its execution.

On March 31, 2010, the Volga Transport Prosecutor's Office sent for consideration to the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Court a criminal case against three supporters of the organization "Russian National Unity" Roman Guryanov, Ilya Yermolin and Kirill Cherkasov, suspected of the murder on May 9, 2009 near the platform of the Balakhna station of the Gorky railway citizen of Uzbekistan Gennady Du. The defendants are charged with p.p. "g", "l" part 2 tbsp.

On March 31, 2010, it became known that in Kabardino-Balkaria, at the suit of the prosecutor of the republic, the Nalchik City Court ruled to recognize as extremist book publications "Satan's Footprint on the Secret Paths of History" and "Satan's Footprint on the Secret Paths of History. Edition 2, supplemented ".

On February 27, 2010, a case was initiated in Penza under Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (public demonstration of Nazi symbols) in relation to the activist of the Left Front Sergei Padalkin. The reason was a cartoon posted on the website of the regional branch of the movement, with the image of the Russian flag and the abbreviation Housing and Public Utilities, in which the last letter is a swastika.

On February 26, 2010, in the city of Alatyr, Chuvashia, Jehovah's Witnesses distributed the leaflet "Is history repeating itself? A question for Russians." She was interrogated by officers of the OUUM Department of Internal Affairs in the city of Alatyr regarding this fact. After this, the leaflet was sent for linguistic examination to the ECC of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Chuvashia.

We are publishing an examination of the materials of Jehovah's Witnesses, conducted by the State Institution "Bryansk Laboratory of Forensic Science of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation", on the basis of which the criminal prosecution against I.Yu. Ananyin, leader of the religious group of Jehovah's Witnesses in the city of Asbest (Sverdlovsk Region). The text of the examination in .doc format is available here .

In March 2010, in the city of Ozera, Moscow Region, an attack was made on a teenager, a native of Dagestan. The incident took place in the kitchen of one of the communal apartments in the city, where the attacker lived with his future victim and his parents. The man, confronted in the kitchen with a teenager, began shouting racist insults, and then attacked him with a knife, threatening to kill him. Fortunately, the young man's parents were at home and dragged the neighbor away from their son.

On March 30, 2010, it became known that the Committee for the Protection of the Constitutional Rights of Muslims was established under the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Asian part of Russia (SAM AChR). Ilkhom Merazhov, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Higher Mathematics of the Siberian University of Consumer Cooperatives, was appointed Chairman of the new Committee.

At the end of March 2010, it became known that in Naberezhnye Chelny the case of the beating of natives of Tajikistan in October 2009 was submitted to the court. The defendants are four residents of Naberezhnye Chelny (aged 18 to 24 years old) They are charged with Article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (hooliganism committed by a group of persons motivated by national, religious hatred or enmity).