On April 1, 2010, the Kostroma district prosecutor's office submitted to court a criminal case on a racist attack on a local policeman in February 2010. 21-year-old Andrei Kapin is charged under three articles of the Criminal Code of Russia: Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of hatred), part 1 of article 318 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (use of violence against a representative of authority), art.

On April 1, 2010, the Prosecutor's Office of the Rostov Region filed a lawsuit with the Sovetsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don against the Southern Branch of CJSC Comstar-Region to restrict access to the websites of the recognized extremist NBP. Specific site addresses are not reported.

On April 1, 2010, it became known that in Lipetsk a guilty verdict was passed under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (production and distribution of extremist materials) in relation to a user of a local file-sharing network. One of the users of the local file-sharing network "DC++" of the provider "Lipetsk branch of OJSC CenterTelecom" has placed in free access the video files "Eternal Jew" and "Russia with a knife in the back".

April 1, 2010 in Vladimir completed the investigation of a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred committed in public), part 1, p.p. "a", "b" Art. 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (hooliganism committed with the use of weapons, motivated by ideological, national and religious hatred and enmity), part 1 of Art.

At the end of March, four local residents were detained in Orel on suspicion of committing a series of arsons. The detainees admitted that since December 2009 they had thrown Molotov cocktails at various buildings, including religious ones. The premises of a trading house rented by a Muslim society, an Orthodox chapel on Mashkarina Street, as well as the prosecutor's office of the Orlovsky district and two cafes suffered from the hands of arsonists.

April 1, 2010 in the Frunzensky District Court of Moscow Vladivostok, the trial of a group of Nazi skinheads began. This will be the second an attempt to consider this case , earlier it was returned to the prosecutor's office for additional investigation. Recall that there are five minors in the dock. young people. They are accused of committing three racist attacks against Chinese citizens (it was previously reported that one of the victims - a citizen of the DPRK ).

The Penza Church "Living Faith" turned to the temporary administrator of the Penza diocese, Bishop Veniamin (Zaritsky), with a request to evaluate the actions of the Orthodox priest Oleg Andreev, who desecrated the Pentecostal building. The authors of the letter emphasize that they do not connect this incident with the position of the Russian Orthodox Church and ask for comment on the situation.

On March 31, 2010, the Central District Court of Voronezh delivered a guilty verdict in the case of a series of racist attacks against Alexei Lomakin, Yevgeny Syrichko and minor F. In an attack on citizens of India and Kenya in February 2008, 20-year-old A. Lomakin (under Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (hooliganism committed motivated by racial, national or religious hatred or enmity)) and a minor member of the group were found guilty Igor F.

On March 31, Director of the Institute of Religion and Law Roman Lunkin sent an appeal to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region in connection with the violation of the rights of the community of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (ROAC) in St. Petersburg. On March 12, the rector of the church, Bishop Gregory (Lurie) was interrogated as a witness in a criminal case against unidentified persons.

Protodeacon Andrei Kuraev, during a visit to Penza, at the request of a correspondent for the newspaper “Young Leninist,” commented on the actions of a local priest who wrote the word “sect” next to the Pentecostal church. “He did what I had long dreamed of. I would give out a stamp “Beware, sect!” to all citizens, so that they would make an imprint on the doors of those houses where sectarians gather,” said A. Kuraev.

On April 1, it became known that the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation issued a warning to the Islamic Cultural Center of Russia. "In violation of paragraph 5 of article 29 of the federal law "On Non-Commercial Organizations," the organization's president, Abdul-Vahed Niyazov, was paid remuneration according to the center's staffing table, Interfax-religion quotes the text of the warning.

On April 1, 2010, the investigating authorities of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Oryol Region detained four residents of the city of Orel, suspected of committing crimes under Part 3 of Art. 30, part 2 of Art. 167 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (attempted intentional destruction of property, committed out of hooligan motives, by arson).

On March 31, 2010, the investigative department for the city of Syktyvkar of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Komi initiated a criminal case under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (actions aimed at inciting hatred or enmity committed in public).

On April 1, schools in 19 Russian regions begin an experiment to introduce the course “Fundamentals of Religious Cultures and Secular Ethics” into the curriculum. The experiment is designed for two years. See fourth grade course selection data . Sources An experiment in teaching religion and ethics is starting in Russian schools // Interfax-religion. 2010. April 1.

On March 31, 2010, the Central Internal Affairs Directorate for the Voronezh Region announced the arrest and check for involvement in extremist activities of five members of the informal creative association "Stolen Bread", whom the police consider members of the totalitarian sect of anarcho-Satanists. According to the police department, the detainees were involved in organizing rituals of idolatry, holding meetings in the forest and in apartments, and desecrating a destroyed church.