On May 1, 2011, an open letter from Abbot Peter (Eremeev) to the director of the Museum of Moscow, Galina Vedernikova, dated April 18, was published. The reason for the appeal was the refusal of the museum management to allow the Easter service to be held in the Church of St. John the Evangelist, handed over to the community.

April 29, 2011 in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (Kamchatsky region) during the raid of the regional FSB and the Internal Affairs Directorate on retail outlets was seized " batch DVDs from the series "Chronicles of the Third Reich" with features counterfeit ". Disks have been found in several trading pavilions, which belong to one local individual entrepreneur. The prosecutor's office of the Kamchatka Territory filed a lawsuit, demanding that the discs be recognized as extremist material.

April 30, 2011, according to Credo.ru , before the start of the evening service in the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church Church of St. Tsar-Martyr Nicholas and all the New Martyrs Russians at the Golovinsky cemetery in Moscow entered three young men (one - minor) and began calling on believers to "repent of the schism". After the rector asked to leave the temple, they continued to communicate with parishioners on the porch of the temple.

At the end of April 2011, it became known that on April 8, the Judicial Collegium for Civil Cases of the Amur of the regional court overturned the decision of the Blagoveshchensk city court dated March 4 2011 on the prohibition of materials from the New Generation Church of the Annunciation. April 21, 2011 prosecutor of the Amur Region, N. Pilipchuk submitted a motion to cancel this cassation definitions.

On May 1, 2011, three people were detained in St. Petersburg young people suspected of attacking an Ecuadorian citizen. They turned out to be three unemployed Petersburgers, 21, 25 and 26 years. The young people were detained by the transport police "on hot trace." Recall that a criminal case was opened on the fact of the attack. Part 2 Art. 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (hooliganism committed by an organized group). Sources Hooligans beat an Ecuadorian citizen in a St.

May 1, 2011 in St. Petersburg in the Vitebskaya train line of the Oktyabrskaya railway, on the stretch between the stations "Prospect of Glory" and Aeronautical Park, an Ecuadorian citizen was beaten. A black passenger was attacked by three young men and brutally beaten. According to some reports, the attackers shouted racist slogans. The victim received a closed craniocerebral injury, concussion and hematomas.

In April 2011, we registered cases of unlawful application of anti-extremist legislation in all major areas: criminal and administrative prosecution, recognition of publications as extremist materials, issuance of warnings to the media. Criminal prosecution In April, at least seven criminal cases were wrongfully initiated against Muslim groups (Hizb ut-Tahrir and followers of Said Nursi), Jehovah's Witnesses, Scientologists, political and social activists.

On April 28, 2011, the Baikal-daily agency and a number of other media published a message on measures to prevent extremist actions during the celebration of the 350th anniversary annexation of Buryatia to Russia.

May 3, 2011 in the town of Protvino near Moscow an attack was made on an apartment in which citizens of Uzbekistan lived and Kyrgyzstan. Spouses Olga and Alexei Loshkov, in a drunken state, decided deal with the immigrants living in their entrance, for which A. Loshkov, armed with an air pistol, and his wife with a stool leg. Posing as police officers, they broke into apartment where the immigrants lived. A.

May 3, 2011 from the Federal List of Extremist materials , a number of entries were removed while maintaining the general numbering. In particular, 29 books by Ron Hubbard were excluded from the list (paragraphs 632-660). Recall that the works of Ron Hubbard were included in the Federal list for no reason. In March 2010, the Surgut City Court ruled decision to recognize 29 books that form the basis of the religious teaching of the Church Scientology, extremist.

On May 3, 2011, the anti-clerical foundation "Zdravomyslie" announced that it had addressed the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation and the President of the Russian Federation with a request to assess whether the introduction of a full-time position of a regimental priest in the Russian army is legal. According to the authors of the statement, this contradicts Art. 14 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, which guarantees the secular nature of the state, and Art.

At the end of April 2011, the Prosecutor of the Leninsky district of the city of Ulyanovsk sent two lawsuits to the court demanding to oblige the providers Netcom LLC and Kvantum CJSC block access to the Ichkeria-info website (ichkeria.info). Recall that the site was recognized as extremist in January 2011. and included in the Federal List of Extremist Materials (p. 784).

On May 2, 2011, a racist attack took place in Moscow for a native of Africa - a 28-year-old postgraduate student of the Russian Medical Academy postgraduate education. The incident took place in one of the bars on the street Marshal Vasilevsky, two visitors attacked the young man and severely beaten while shouting racist slogans. The victim went to the hospital, doctors recorded at him a craniocerebral injury, as well as numerous bruises and hematomas.

In April 2011, at least 19 people were victims of racist and neo-Nazi attacks. Among them, one was killed (a Central Asian in Moscow), and three received serious death threats. According to SOVA’s data, violent incidents were recorded in Moscow (2 injured, 1 killed), St. Petersburg (7 injured), the Kaliningrad region (4 injured), and the Republic of Bashkortostan (1 injured).

On April 25, 2011, Igor Popov was charged under Part. 2 tbsp. 282.2 (participation in an extremist organization) and Part 1 of Art. 282 (excitement hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. On April 29, 2011 Alexander Kurov was charged under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 (participation in extremist organization), Part 1 of Art. 282 (inciting social hatred against government officials) and Part 1 of Art.