On December 9, 2011, a former leader of the "Party of Freedom" Yuri Belyaev. It is reported that another criminal case has been initiated against him. case under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred) for the publication of certain texts in 2007. Unfortunately, the details are unknown. Recall that in October 2008 Yu.

In December 2011, a verdict was passed in the Irkutsk region in an administrative case on propaganda and public display of symbols, similar to the Nazi to the point of confusion (part 1 of article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The case was initiated against the participant of the first regional festival song folklore in the village of Bolshoye Goloustnoye in August 2011 - A. Eroshkina.

In the winter of 2011, an attack on a native of Afghanistan took place in Moscow. In the winter of 2011 in Moscow, near the Pervomaiskaya metro station, three young men attacked an Afghan native while he was reading an Afghan newspaper. The victim contacted the police and went to the emergency room. The police did not find anyone, as a result, the Afghan native dropped the case. Sources Information provided by the Civic Assistance Committee.

On December 29, 2011, it became known that on December 20, 2011, Elena Grigorieva, a resident of Akhtubinsk (Astrakhan region), was charged with an updated charge under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting religious hatred). The Jehovah's Witnesses literature distribution case was initiated against her in February 2011. At the same time, searches were carried out in Grigorieva's house, then the woman was forced to quit her job.

As of December 28, 2011, for the past year there were about thirty attacks against Jehovah's Witnesses. January 21, 2011 in Khmelnitsky Primorsky Krai on 70-year-old R. Beketova, a member of the community of Jehovah's Witnesses, was attacked by a young drunk man P. Baranovsky, who knocked the woman down, and repeatedly swinging an ax at her, demanded that she leave the village. On January 27, in Ust-Bayak, Sverdlovsk Region, a group of men threatened To Jehovah's Witnesses V.

On December 28, 2011, the Moscow Church of Evangelical Christians "Holy Trinity Church" was ordered to free from "illegal buildings” the territory occupied by them in Novokosin (Nikolai Starostin St., property 10). In the decision to initiate enforcement proceedings, a deadline was set for the voluntary execution of the decision of the Perovsky District Court until December 30, 2011.

We are publishing a traditional monthly review of manifestations of xenophobia and radical nationalism and counteraction to them by the state for December 2011. The review was compiled based on daily monitoring materials from SOVA the Center . In December 2011, at least 5 people were injured as a result of racist and neo-Nazi motivated attacks.

As of December 28, 2011, in relation to liturgical buildings of Jehovah's Witnesses over the past year, there were about twenty cases vandalism. 1st of January 2011 building Stones thrown at Jehovah's Witnesses in Volgograd, siding damaged facade of the building, trees are broken and a lamp above the entrance is broken. 15 January in Lipetsk the bars on the gate of the liturgical building were broken and knocked down two street lighting poles.

December 30, 2011 Cassation Board of the Supreme Court satisfied the complaint of the General Prosecutor's Office, and annulled the decision of the Supreme court dated December 26 this year, according to which the refusal of the Central Election Commission (CEC) Russian Federation register Boris Mironov as a candidate for the presidency of the Russian Federation was declared illegal.

December 2011 turned out to be rich unlawful manifestations in the field criminal law and recognition extremist materials. Criminal prosecution Two judgments were handed down in December for membership in a wrongfully prohibited for radical Islamic terrorism organization "Hizb ut-Tahrir" (art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) - in relation to a resident of Samara in Moscow and in relation to four people in Naberezhnye Chelny.

On December 30, 2011, the " Federal List of Extremist Materials " was again updated, which is published on the website of the Ministry of Justice of Russia. It has been added pp. 1059-1066. The list was supplemented by xenophobic leaflets, a certain comment on the forum, Islamist articles from the Kavkaz Center website and several racist videos. Update of the Federal List of Extremist Materials of December 30 2011.

At the end of December 2011, the decision of the Sverdlovsk Regional Court became public, allowing the Federal Security Service of Russia in the Sverdlovsk Region to conduct operational-search activities against the deputy of the Yekaterinburg City Duma, the leader of the regional branch of the Yabloko party, Maxim Petlin (see the scan of the decision here and here ) .