As it became known on May 19, 2011, on April 14 of the same year, the investigative department for the Oktyabrsky district of Kirov opened a criminal case under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of hatred) against Natalya Tereshina and Taras Avvakumov, who distributed a party leaflet in December 2010 "Will" entitled "Do the Russians want war?" Having reviewed the text of the leaflet, we believe that it does not deserve criminal prosecution (the text

On May 23, 2011, the Nizhny Novgorod transport prosecutor's office sent an application to the court for the recognition of the “Book of the Mujahideen” as extremist material. (Print data of the book is not indicated). The book was confiscated in January 2011 by employees of the Nizhny Novgorod transport police and the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation in the Nizhny Novgorod region at the detained man, 1984 the year of birth.

On May 20, 2011 the State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted in the first reading a bill on amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The bill was submitted to the State Duma in early April 2011 by President Russia Dmitry Medvedev.

On May 23, 2011, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev spoke at the Main Directorate Ministry of Internal Affairs at a meeting with the participation of heads of law enforcement and security forces departments, plenipotentiaries of the President in the federal districts and a number of heads of subjects of the Federation, where measures to combat extremism were discussed.

On May 19, 2011 it became known that the Arbitration Court of the Sverdlovsk region is considering the claim of the Kamensk-Ural communal manager company to the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery, whose debt is about 800 thousand rubles. Since 2008, the monks of the monastery have occasionally listed companies small amounts. During the preliminary hearing, the lawyers of the monastery refused recognize the debt and asked them to give them a few days to do it themselves recalculation.

On May 20, 2011, it became known that the Moscow authorities told the volunteers of the temple of Cosmas and Damian in Shubin that they should stop feeding the homeless. This requirement was motivated by the need to maintain cleanliness in the center of the city (the temple is located opposite the Moscow City Hall). Parishioners of the temple feed the homeless twice a week for several years hot lunches. Several hundred people receive food each time.

On May 23, 2011, it became known that the Birobidzhan authorities were trying to ban the festive Easter concert scheduled for 24 April. The event was organized by six Protestant churches cities, including Baptists, Pentecostals, and Presbyterians. An agreement with the Philharmonic Directorate was reached in two month. However, on April 11, the organizers were informed by phone about the cancellation of the concert, without stating the reason for the refusal.

On May 21, 2011 in Moscow, within the framework of the international conference "Andrey Sakharov. Anxiety and Hope - 2011", dedicated to the 90th anniversary of A. Sakharov, the section "Religious and secular (in)tolerance and human rights" worked, co-organized by the Information and analytical center "SOVA".

On May 23, 2011, it became known that the Moscow church Theodore Studite at the Nikitsky Gate for several years cannot achieve transfer of land adjacent to the temple. In the early 2000s, the parish asked the authorities to to transfer to the temple a site that historically belonged to the church complex. On him it was planned to build a clergy house, baptismal, Sunday school. Moskomzem and Mosarchitectura allocated a plot of land to the parish 483 sq. meters.

On May 23, 2011, the Prosecutor's Office of the Krasnodar Territory announced a number of measures, including the case of an administrative violation of Part 1 of Art. 20.3 Administrative Code of the Russian Federation (propaganda and public demonstration of Nazi paraphernalia or symbols), in relation to individuals, officials and the media, one way or another connected with the scandal around photographs showing Vadim Gromyko, son of Vice-Governor of the Krasnodar Territory Evgeny Gromyko.

On May 23, 2011 Vladimir Markin, a representative of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, announced that the investigation charged under part 3 of article 30, part 2 of article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (attempted murder of two and more persons, committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy, generally dangerous method based on ideological hatred and enmity), part 2 of article 222 (illegal circulation of weapons) and part 2 of article 223 (illegal

On May 22, 2011, a church priest was beaten in the center of Moscow Cosmas and Damian in Shubin Archpriest John Vlasov. The priest was heading to the temple to serve an early liturgy, when an unknown person knocked him down and began to beat him feet, filming what is happening on the phone. Father John was able to serve the Liturgy. May 24, 2011 church rector Fr.