September 5, 2011 It became known that the Directorate of the TFR in the Altai Republic is conducting pre-investigation check against the imam of the mosque in the village of Kosh-Agach Serikzhan (Serzhana) Svatov. According to the Deputy District Prosecutor, on September 1, Imam made statements aimed at inciting hatred on ethnic sign. The content of the statements is not reported. Bankfax notes that S. Svatov has already become a member ethnic conflicts.

September 5, 2011 actor and director Ivan Okhlobystin, who is temporarily banned from service priest of the Russian Orthodox Church, announced his intention to nominate his candidate for the 2012 presidential election. As part of his electoral program, he intends to propose "a certain philosophical and ideological concept that is missing - that what is missing so that we can become a nation." During a press conference, I.

On September 5, 2011 it became known that in Nizhny Novgorod was taken to court criminal case under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organization of the activities of an extremist organization) in relation to five suspects in the creation of a cell of the banned organization Nurcular.

This month, anti-extremism legislation was misused primarily in recognition of materials (mostly texts) as extremist. We also note a new bill introduced by the government to the Duma; it clarifies and extends some of the state’s methods of countering extremism. Criminal Prosecution Two notable criminal convictions were made in August.

September 5, 2011 Sysert Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office (Sverdlovsk region) began an investigation into the fact of non-payment of wages to the workers of the factory "Porcelain Sysert" Yekaterinburg diocese. The total amount of debt to the team is more than 5 million rubles. On September 2, the workers held a picket demanding to pay off the debt since 2010.

In August of 2011, a Kenyan national was wounded in a neo-Nazi attack in St. Petersburg. Additionally, racist incidents were noted (as usual) at the August 2 Airborne Day celebration. At least ten people in seven regions of the country were affected. Since the beginning of the year, racist violence has killed 15 people and injured 80, while seven have received death threats.

On September 5, 2011, it became known that members of the parish meeting of the Pskov Church of the Myrrh-Bearing Women, who had previously been dismissed by the diocesan court, appealed to Patriarch Kirill, the General Church Court and the Pskov prosecutor's office. Believers ask the Patriarch and the General Church Court to cancel the decisions of the diocesan court as contrary to church canons and secular legislation.

On September 5, 2011, it became known that the Investigative Committee of the RF IC for Tyumen region completed the investigation of a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (actions aimed at inciting hatred and enmity, as well as humiliating dignity of a group of persons on the grounds of origin, attitude to religion, committed publicly through the media).

On August 30, 2011, the Kurgan City Court rendered a verdict in a criminal case against S. Seitov, who was accused of posting xenophobic information on the Internet. The court found Seitov guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred) and sentenced him to compulsory labor for a period of 160 hours. The verdict has not yet entered into legal force.