October 10, 2011 in the Chita District Court Trans-Baikal Territory held a preliminary hearing on the criminal case in against Jehovah's Witnesses Andrei and Lucia Raitin, accused under Part 1 of Art. 282 Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting national and religious hatred), reports the press service of the Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. During the hearing, numerous violations of procedural norms adopted during the preliminary investigation.

On the morning of October 10, 2011 in St. Petersburg, attack on Cameroonian Djiku Totuon Theophilus. The attack occurred when D. Theophilus and his friend were returning together from a nightclub. The Cameroonian was beaten by several young men in the underground underpass near the Ligovsky Prospekt metro station. As a result of the attack, he was hospital in serious condition: doctors he had a closed craniocerebral injury, a concussion and a bruise brain.

October 10, 2011 on the website of the Office of the Federal Migration Service for the Udmurt Republic published a message about problems associated with the replacement of old-style passports with new ones. According to the Federal Migration Service, as of September 30, 2011, 700 residents The republics never changed their passports. Of these, 117 people refused to do so. for religious reasons.

October 11, 2011 Head of the Department of Cultural heritage of Moscow, Alexander Kibovsky during a press conference said that "the program restoration of religious objects of the past year was completely failed. Not a single penny of money was allocated." According to him, the system of financing restoration works religious objects from 2012 will change: funds for these works will be included in the city budget as subsidies, then religious organizations be able to carry out repairs themselves.

October 10, 2011 in Moscow, as part of the investigation criminal case on mass riots on December 11, 2010 at Manezhnaya square, law enforcement officers detained a 24-year-old resident of the Samara area Vitaly Vasin. It is reported that during the riots, V. Vasin got traumatic pistol TT "Leader", fired several times into the air, and then pointed the gun at the police. However, law enforcement officers bodies promptly stopped hooligan Vasin's actions.

On October 11, 2011, President Dmitry Medvedev introduced State Duma draft federal law "On Amendments to Article 22.1 Federal Law "On State Registration of Legal Entities and individual entrepreneurs” and articles 331 and 351.1 of the Labor Code Russian Federation". The bill, if passed, would prohibit working with minors who committed crimes against the foundations of the constitutional system (Chapter 29 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

In October 2011, a scandal erupted in Samara around nationalist and anti-Semitic blog posts by local Communist Party activist Sergei Igumenov. S. Igumenov, being a candidate for deputies of the Samara Provincial Duma, published an entry on his blog under the heading “Kids in the sludge, foreigners in mourning - Sergei Igumenov is registered as a people's candidate.

October 11, 2011 head of the Synodal Department for relationship between the Church and society, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, speaking at round table in the Public Chamber, proposed to actively involve the responsibility of those who allow insults on a national or religious soil on the Internet. "Internet is part of communication. Why do people think that, hiding behind a nickname, behind a nickname, you can insult people of other nationalities Or religious shrines?

October 5, 2011 meeting of the Public Council on the application of the legislation of the Russian Federation of Mass Media under Roskomnadzor. Council Members discussed the responsibility of the media for the publication of images of Nazi symbols and paraphernalia that illustrate texts condemning manifestations of Nazism and no fight against them.

October 10, 2011 Commission of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on the development of institutions civil society approved the draft Federal Law "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts Russian Federation" (on the issue of countering extremist activities), which criminalizes the financing extremist activities and confiscation of property, as well as tightening measures against propaganda on the Internet.

In October 2011, in the city of Syktyvkar of the Komi Republic, a verdict was passed in the case of inciting ethnic hatred (part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code RF). In the dock was 28-year-old local resident Nikolai Martynov, who was accused of posting on social media during 2011 network "VKontakte" xenophobic comments and uploaded racist videos. The court found the young man guilty and sentenced to 6 months of probation.

October 11, 2011 chief architect of the Arkhangelsk region Dmitry Yaskorsky said at a press conference that the new the general plan of Solovki does not involve the liquidation of the village and eviction residents. The new master plan provides for the construction of a school, a children's garden, hospital, sports complex, stadium, new pier, as well as new residential area. In addition, it is planned to reconstruct the existing berth and airport buildings.

On October 11, 2011, the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for St. Petersburg granted the petition of Voina group activist Leonid Nikolaev and stopped his criminal prosecution . The website in support of “War” states that the decision to terminate the criminal case was made on September 1, but Nikolaev received the notification only on October 11.