Ed. Alexander Verkhovsky and Galina Kozhevnikova Introduction This review is devoted to the practice of law enforcement under Art. 280 Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Public calls for extremist activity”). Structurally, the work consists of a large chronicle section sentences, smaller sections devoted to sentences in cases related to violence and with the unlawful application of this article, and preliminary - in view of incompleteness of data - analysis of law enforcement.

On October 25, 2010, it became known that an audit of complaints from the pupils of the orphanage at the Bogolyubsky Monastery , begun on behalf of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, Vladimir Lukin, partly confirmed the validity of the pupils’ complaints of ill-treatment.

In October 2010, the prosecutor's office of the Kursk region reported that on August 30 of this year, the Zheleznogorsk city court of the Kursk region passed a verdict in the case of 17-year-old Pavel Burkush.

October 25, 2010 became known that the Kaliningrad regional government announced intention by the end of 2010 to transfer to the ownership of the ROC a number of buildings in which located including cultural institutions. In the list for transfer of buildings appear Kaliningrad regional philharmonic society, puppet theater, building of the regional Russian orchestra folk instruments, house of culture "Rus", museum of the Lithuanian poet Kristionis Donelaitis.

From September 30 to October 8, 2010 in the city of Embankments Chelny of the Republic of Tatarstan at public transport stops have become to appear leaflets insulting Jews and sharply criticizing the activities of various government agencies.

In mid-October 2010, we had at our disposal documents on the case of Eduard Gabdrakhmanov and the publisher of Muslim literature Aidara Khabibullina (they are accused of inciting hatred and keeping ammunition). We offer a brief analysis of the examination of materials, dissemination which they are charged with. The examination was carried out from 9 to 13 September 2010 by employees Russian Institute of Cultural Studies Batov V.I. and Kryukova N.N..

On the night of October 21, 2010, in Stavropol, several people from the Caucasus were attacked, who at 2 a.m., next to one of the local cinemas, were loudly listening to music and dancing lezginka. 10 young people approached the cinema and, without saying anything, began shooting at the dancers with traumatic weapons. After this, the attackers fled. Fortunately, no one was seriously injured, only two people sought medical attention with non-life-threatening injuries.

October 11, 2010 in the Central The district court of Komsomolsk-on-Amur began consideration of the case under Part 1 of Art. 282 (excitement social and national hatred) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation in relation to the activist "Another Russia" by Anton Lukin .

On October 25, 2010, it became known that Muslims of St.

On October 25, 2010, the UPC RF for the Republic of Khakassia announced the completion investigation of a criminal case against 53-year-old local resident Alexander Ishchenko. The criminal case has been sent to the prosecutor for approval of the indictment. conclusions. A. Ishchenko is charged with Part 2 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public appeals to carry out extremist activities committed using the media) and Part 1 of Art.

In October 2010, it became known that on September 15 of this year, the Kalininsky District Court of the Tver Region dismissed the criminal case against 50-year-old Evgeny Maksimov. Let us remind you that the man was accused of inciting national hatred (Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) for repeated desecration of graves at the Dmitrovo-Cherkassky cemetery, as well as for xenophobic inscriptions on posters and posters in Tver.

On October 25, 2010, at a meeting in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, the chairman of the city administration committee for the protection of monuments, Vera Dementeva, stated that the St. Petersburg diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church will not lay claim to the main city cathedrals occupied by museums (St. Isaac's, Smolny, Peter and Paul, Resurrection of Christ and Sampsonievsky) .

In October 2010, the Prosecutor's Office of the Kursk Region reported that on September 24 this year, the Promyshlenny District Court of Kursk delivered a verdict in the case of 25-year-old Denis Utkin. Recall that the young man was accused of inciting national hatred (part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) for posting Konstantin Dushenov's anti-Semitic film "Russia with a Knife in the Back 2" on the Internet in September 2009.

In October 2010 in Naberezhnye Chelny of the Republic of Tatarstan a criminal case was initiated on inciting ethnic hatred (part 1 of article 282 Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The reason for this was the discovery of six anti-Semitic leaflets , which in addition to insults against the Jews, they contained negative statements about various government structures. So far no one has been arrested in the case.