As it became known in mid-April, on March 31, 2010, Roskomnadzor issued a warning to Novaya Gazeta about the inadmissibility of extremist activities. The reason was the article by I. Nikitovich “Gang, agency, party. Who are the “legal nationalists” , published in No. 5 of January 20, 2010.

be declared illegal On April 15, the Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Tambov Regional Court considered the cassation appeal of the Cheprunov family, who demanded that the search in their house on March 17, 2010 . At that time, religious literature was confiscated from the Cheprunovs and several other Tambov families of Jehovah's Witnesses. The court satisfied the complaint, recognizing that the religion of citizens is not a sufficient basis for criminal prosecution.

On April 15, the Syktyvkar City Court ruled to expel 27-year-old Tajik citizen Aziza Sanginova from Russia. Prior to that, she had been brought to administrative responsibility three times for violating immigration laws. In addition, A. Sanginova is accused of conducting missionary activities and trying to convert the residents of Komi to Islam. The Komi Human Rights Commission "Memorial" considers this decision illegal. According to human rights activist Ernest Mezak, A.

On April 15, 2010, the Severodvinsk City Court (Arkhangelsk Region) delivered a guilty verdict under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred committed publicly or with the use of the media) against 21-year-old Nikolai Kazanin. The court sentenced the young man to 180 hours of compulsory work. N. Kazanin fully admitted his guilt and repented of his deed.

On March 23, the Main Directorate of Educational Work of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responded to an appeal from the Institute of Religion and Law regarding the introduction of the institute of military clergy in the Russian army. The document , signed by the temporary acting director of the department, Yu.

April 15 at the building of Jehovah's Witnesses in Komsomolsk-on-Amur during a meeting of believers, assistant prosecutor N. Goncharova, accompanied by 9 employees of the Center for Combating Extremism (CPE), with a written request from the prosecutor's office to provide some documents on the activities of a local religious organization. One of the believers, Nikolai Kovadnev, asked those who arrived not to interfere with the service and offered to come after it was over.

On April 16, 2010, it became known that a Nazi swastika appeared on the wall of a residential building in the Yuzhnoportovy district of Moscow. The Nazi sign is stenciled with green paint on the wall of residential building No. 6/14 on Novoostapovskaya Street. In the same area, on one of the garages near house number 18 on Yuzhnoportovaya Street, another Nazi sign was painted with the slogan: " Here we are ." The inscription is made with a black aerosol can.

On April 15, 2010, the Ulyanovsk Regional Court did not find an administrative offense in the actions of and.about. director of the regional scientific library Elena Chichneva, accused of storing and distributing extremist materials. Earlier, the prosecutor's office of the Ulyanovsk region found in the library two books by theologian Said Nursi, recognized as extremist and included in the official list of prohibited materials.

On April 12, 2010, the Leninsky District Court of Perm, which was considering the case against the chairman of the Perm Civil Chamber, Igor Averkiev, terminated the trial due to the fact that the prosecutor's office dropped the charges. Recall that Averkiev was accused under Part 1 of Art.

In April 2010, black-and-white stickers with the words "Kill the immigrant" appeared at public transport stops and other public places in Murmansk. The sticker depicts two people, one of whom put a gun to the head of the other. Sources Extremist stickers appeared at bus stops in Murmansk // Television company TV-21. 2010. April 13.

On April 16, speaking in Moscow at a round table within the framework of the exhibition-forum "Army and Society", State Secretary - Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Nikolai Pankov said that a department for working with religious military personnel had been created within the Ministry of Defense. Let us remember that the project to create such a department was developed in 2009.

Chief Mufti of the Urals Federal District (TsDUM), Mufti of the Chelyabinsk and Kurgan Regions Rina Raev became a member of the Public Chamber of the Chelyabinsk Region on the proposal of the Governor of the region. “I think that this will help to work effectively in the spiritual sphere, in particular, in the fight against religious extremism, countering the activities of totalitarian sects, resolving issues of transferring objects that previously belonged to Muslims to Muslims.

On April 12, 2010, Jehovah's Witnesses filed supervisory appeals against the decision of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Altai dated January 27, 2010, which left in force the decision of the city court of Gorno-Altaisk on recognition as extremist some materials of Jehovah's Witnesses. Complaints were also filed in the interests of legal entities Jehovah's Witnesses in the United States and Germany, who are respectively author and publisher of publications prohibited by the court.

On April 15, the Parliament of Karelia approved two bills on the transfer of the cargo-and-passenger berth of Monastyrskaya Bay and the building of the former women's refectory to the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Valaam Monastery. Deputies from the Communist Party faction opposed this initiative. Deputy Gennady Shikhrin recalled that all the time when the pier was rented from the monastery, the secular population could not moor without the blessing of the abbot.