March 29, 2012 representatives of two communist parties - the Revolutionary Communist Youth Union (RKSMb) and the Russian Communist Workers' Party (RCRP) - applied to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation with a statement on the initiation criminal case under Art. 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public calls for the implementation extremist activity) and art.

March 29, 2012 members of the Public Chamber Anatoly Kucheren, Chairman of the Central Council of the All-Russian Public movement "Civil Society", and Sergey Markov, Vice-Rector of the Russian University of Economics, said that the " information campaign against the patriarch" deployed for political reasons. According to A.

On March 30, 2012, we became aware of a criminal case filed in August 2010 against a resident of the city of Gatchina Leningradskaya area D.L.Lebedev for hours. 1 Article. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity, as well as the humiliation of human dignity on the basis of attitude to religion).

On March 29, 2012, the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Court issued a second verdict in the case of four residents of Dzerzhinsk, members of the far-right group "White Legion".

On March 30, 2012, it became known that after the adoption of the law on the transfer of property for religious purposes to religious organizations, the Federal Agency for State Property Management (Rosimushchestvo) received about 200 applications from religious organizations for the transfer of property. 60 objects have been transferred, 20 are being prepared for transfer. Most of the transferred objects currently belong to the Russian Orthodox Church.

March 24, 2012 Muslims of Tatarstan began collecting signatures under an appeal to the President Republic Rustam Minnikhanov. In their appeal, residents oppose the installation in Bulgar, a 12-meter statue of the White Leopard - "Guardian", which they consider "pagan idol." Authors appeals remind that the Muslim Tatars “carefully, sincerely, with hope" refer to the Bulgar, where, according to legend, they accepted Islam is their ancestors.

On March 30, 2012, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Rashid Nurgaliev, announced that his department plans to create at least six new interregional centers to conduct examinations for signs of extremism in electronic media, printed, audio and video products. The creation of these institutions should be coordinated by the offices of authorized representatives of the president in the federal districts, each of which will open its own center, like the center at St.

On March 26, 2012, the RF Investigative Committee for the Nizhny Novgorod Region announced that the investigation into the arson of the reception building of OZS deputy Vadim Zhuk (United Russia) on Lenin Avenue in Nizhny Novgorod had been completed. Two teenagers are accused under Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (hooliganism committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy motivated by hatred).

March 30, 2012 Zheleznodorozhny the interdistrict SO of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Investigative Committee for the Novosibirsk Region reported that the investigation of the criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred and enmity, committed publicly) against a 75-year-old resident of the city of Berdsk. The criminal case was sent to court for consideration on the merits.

On March 21, 2012, the report of the American Commission was published on International Religious Freedom, a separate chapter of which is devoted to the Russian situation in the field of freedom of conscience (pp. 316-319).

On March 29, 2012, the prosecutor's office of the Astrakhan region reported that the prosecutor's office of the Kirovsky district of Astrakhan sent 10 statements of claim to the Kirovsky district court against local providers with the requirement to restrict access to sites containing extremist literature. Remember, we don't think lawful practice of blocking sites without a court decision on recognizing them extremist, although the Supreme Court considers it justified.