In the Explanatory Note to the draft law submitted to the State Duma on August 4, 2011, the Government provided updated official statistics on criminal cases under four articles of the Criminal Code - 280 (Public calls for extremist activities), 282 (Inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity), 282-1 (Organizing an extremist community) and 282-2 (Organizing an extremist organization).

On August 4, 2011, the Government submitted to the State Duma bill clarifying and expanding some of the tools countering extremist activity as described in the law on this counteraction. First of all, the bill concerns financing. Property and valuables used or intended for financing of extremist activities are included in the list of confiscation (clause "c" article 104-1 of the Criminal Code). The Criminal Code proposes a new article 282-3 (Funding extremist activities).

July 30, 2011, speaking in the TV program "Word pastor", Patriarch Kirill complained about the difficulties with which faced by clergy participating in a public discussion on topical issues. "Unfortunately, the presence of clergy in public discussions very often looks flawed, inferior. Everyone is waiting for a priest more. And he cannot say more because of the format of the discussion and the atmosphere in which which this discussion is taking place," he said.

On August 5, 2011, it became known that the imam of the Vologda region Ravil Mustafin appealed to the city prosecutor's office with a complaint about infringement Muslim rights. The statement says that the leadership of the hostel of the Vologda bearing factory does not allow fasting Muslims to cook food at night. Administration of the Vologda Polytechnic University admits students who return after midnight after night prayers to the hostel, referring to the established order. R.

As we became aware at the beginning of August 2011, July 21 In 2011, consideration of the case of the Internet portal "Live Kuban" began in the Soviet District Court of Krasnodar. The hearings began with the fact that the prosecutor's office submitted to the court an amended claim against the publication, however, the case was not adjourned.

Late in the evening on August 2, 2011 in front of the church of St. Gregory Neo-Kesariysky on Bolshaya Polyanka in Moscow there was a fight. group of aggressive young people used foul language, threw a bottle of beer at the door of the church and scattered next to the temple pages of Jeff Grub's book "Cross hike", based on the plot of the StarCraft computer game. Two employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations tried to intervene.

On August 3, 2011, it became known that the residents of Tagansky district of Moscow demanded to stop construction work near Novospasskoye monastery. One of the local residents told Izvestia that June 12, 2011 on the site of sheds that burned down 5 years ago, the company "Techprofservis" started construction. The district government confirmed that the permission from there is a builder.

August 5, 2011 it became known that in Bashkiria completed investigation of a criminal case against 6 people accused of involvement to the activities of Hizb ut-Tahrir. Detained in April 2011 Ildar Ibragimov, Rustem Gallyamov, Shamil Galimov, Mikhail Toptygin, Airat Akhmetshin and Ruslan Zainullin is charged under Part. 1, 2, article 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organization and participation in the activities of an extremist organization).

July 30, 2011, speaking in the TV program "Word pastor", Patriarch Kirill complained about the difficulties with which faced by clergy participating in a public discussion on topical issues. "Unfortunately, the presence of clergy in public discussions very often looks flawed, inferior. Everyone is waiting for a priest more. And he cannot say more because of the format of the discussion and the atmosphere in which which this discussion is taking place ," he said.

On August 5, 2011, the Prosecutor's Office of Zhigulevsk, Samara Region reported violations of the legislation on countering extremism, admitted by the editors of the newspaper "Zhigulevskiy worker". No. 81 of July 28 published an article "On construction of a mosque: pros and cons". It contains the opinions of residents of the microdistrict Morkvashi, who oppose the construction of the mosque and have a negative attitude towards Muslims.

As we learned on August 5, 2011, in the case of the Barnaul anarchists, a forensic psychological and sociological examination was carried out. Recall that public activists Daniil Malyshkin, Sergei Sandin and Vitaly Leonov are suspected of what they made out of a medical center billboard with a picture of germs that cause venereal disease, a protest poster pasted on him a photo of Medvedev, Putin, Zhirinovsky, Zyuganov and the governor of Altai edge of Alexander Karlin.

In July we recorded one dubious criminal charge, and several questionable administrative decisions. In some cases, courts rejected improper accusations of extremism, but more often such accusations were approved. Also, of particular note is the involvement of the Federal Migration Service in prosecuting charges of extremism against a trade union activist. Criminal Prosecution July was relatively quiet in this regard; we noted only one case we believe applied improper anti-extremist legislation.

August 5, 2011 Prefecture of the Central Administrative Region Moscow, by its order, stopped construction work in the protected zone Novospassky Monastery. "The commission check established that the investor - LLC "Technoprofservis" - there is no OATI order for the construction of a house, issued in the prescribed manner ," the press service of the prefecture said.