February 24, 2011 Belgorod Regional Duma approved the additions to the regional Code of Administrative Offenses. Adopted amendments provide for penalties for the distribution of religious literature people who do not have documents confirming their status as "official representatives" of a religious organization. Violators will be fined amount from 500 to 1000 rubles.

On the night of February 23, 2011 in Kirov, unknown painted with swastikas and Nazi slogans the facades of houses on the street. Karl Marx. A search and rescue team was dispatched to the scene, painted over and brought the street back to its original state. Sources Fofanova N. Rescuers were called to paint over the swastika on the houses on Karl Marx // Komsomolskaya Pravda (Kirov). 2011. February 25.

IN the end of February 2011 the Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Communications, information technologies and mass communications (Roskomnadzor) published a list of warnings issued to media editors in 2011. Editions news agency InterRight for distribution on the Internet at: http://www.inright.ru/news/headlines/20110208/id_6577/ publications “Doku Umarov took over responsibility for the terrorist attack at Domodedovo and video recordings of Doku Umarov's appeal.

In February 2011, as a result of racist and neo-Nazi attacks at least 6 people were injured, 3 of whom died. Violent incidents were recorded in Moscow (1 dead), Petersburg (4 injured, 1 of them died), Astrakhan region (1 dead). In total, since the beginning of the year, according to the SOVA Center, not less than 25 people, of which 8 people died.

On March 1, 2011, the public foundation "Zdravomyslie" announced the launch of an all-Russian database of violations of Art. 14 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation. It has already recorded 70 cases of violation of the principle of secularism of the state. The database is made in the form of a geographical map, on which dots mark places of conflicts between religious and educational, cultural organizations, violations of the principle of secularism by officials.

28 February 2011 in the Kalininsky District Court of St. Petersburg, a repeated complex forensic-linguistic examination of the case about the attack for two teenagers in St. Petersburg in February 2009. Recall that the case wide resonance after, based on the results of the linguistic expertise of the Center forensic examinations of the North-Western District, the investigation refused to recognize racist motivation for the crime.

March 1, 2011 representatives of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for Novosibirsk regions reported that they had completed a criminal investigation into attack the November 9, 2010, on people who had gathered at NSU building to watch a documentary about killed by neo-Nazis . Anastasia Baburova The defendant in the case is a young man who opened fire from traumatic gun on the assembled spectators.

On March 1, 2011, the press service of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Bryansk Region announced data on crimes of an “extremist nature” in the region in 2010. (See the information from the SOVA Center “ What constitutes an “ extremist crime ” ) According to the Department of Internal Affairs, in 2010, 6 such crimes were identified in the Bryansk region, of which five were committed by students of educational institutions. Three criminal cases were sent to court.

We bring to your attention a monthly review of misuse anti-extremist legislation. Previously, we included a summary in monthly review in the section "Racism and xenophobia. In the field of illegal application of anti-extremist laws are preserved main areas of abuse. According to our data, two wrongful judgments, one - contradictory. Four wrongful criminal cases. Central District Court of Omsk sentenced left-wing activist Anatoly Yurkovets, accused under Part 1 of Art.

Conference "Social Functions of Religion in the Conditions of modernization of society: XXI century” took place on March 1, 2011. at the House of Journalists. It was organized by the Department of Sociology and Management social processes of the Academy of Labor and Social Relations (ATiSO), Center religious studies "ReligioPolis" and the Center for the Study of Religion of the RSUH. Let's take a look at some of the speeches.

On March 1, 2011, the Federal Law "On Police" came into force, adopted by the State Duma on January 28, 2011 and approved by the Federation Council on February 2. As it turned out, it has the potential for misuse.

March 1, 2011 during the meeting of the Council for Interaction with religious associations under the President of the Russian Federation, it was decided to form in within the framework of the Council, the Commission on the harmonization of interethnic and interreligious relations.