We are publishing a review of the main and most significant events in the field of misuse of anti-extremist legislation in Russia in June 2012. Rulemaking June 7, 2012 to the State Duma was submitted a draft law "On Amendments to the Federal Law "On protection of children from information harmful to their health and development" and Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation".

Recently, requirements for telecom operators have become more frequent. block websites containing "extremist materials" and these requirements are not always, in our opinion, legitimate. This document combines the news about the blocking of sites, for which we have no reason to believe that law enforcement agencies exceeded their powers.

In July 2012 year it became known that on May 23, 2012, the investigator of the Investigative Department for to the Central GSU of the ICR for St. Petersburg V. Rud issued a resolution on termination of the criminal case against activists of the art group "Voina" Oleg Vorotnikov and Leonid Nikolaev under Part 2 of Art. 213 (hooliganism motivated by hate) and paragraph "b" part 1 of Art.

In July 2012, in the city of Izhevsk, Udmurt 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 22-year-old Yegor Zakolyukin, who was accused of posting xenophobic leaflets around the city in early April of this year. Police caught him red-handed. The court found the young man guilty and sentenced him to 250 hours of compulsory work. Recall that on March 28 this year, E.

June 22, 2012 Solombala district court of the city Arkhangelsk passed a verdict in the case of inciting ethnic hatred (Part 1 Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and calls for extremist activity (part 1 of article 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

In June 2012, the Prosecutor's Office of the city of Inta of the Republic of Komi filed a lawsuit with a demand to recognize three Islamist sites as extremist: “Information agency Vilayat GIalgIayche”, “Official website of Vilayat Dagestan” and "Azerbaijan Islamic independent information publication" in Russian language.

July 3, 2012 Presidential Human Rights Council The Russian Federation issued a statement expressing concern about the content of the bill No. 89417-6 "On Amendments to the Federal Law" On the Protection of Children from information harmful to their health and development" and separate legislative acts of the Russian Federation on the issue of restricting access to illegal information on the Internet", which will soon be reviewed on first reading.

Recently, demands for telecom operators to block sites containing “extremist materials” have become more frequent. Nevertheless, prosecutors' offices everywhere and regularly oblige telecom operators to restrict access to sites because of one or more materials found there that are recognized as extremist (and often not recognized as such by the court, but only suspected by the prosecutor's office of "sedition").

In July 2012, in the city of Zapolyarny, Murmansk region, a criminal case was initiated under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (initiation of a national hate). The case was initiated against a 23-year-old local resident, whom accused of posting on his page on the VKontakte social network videos that offend people from the Caucasus and Central Asia, as well as law enforcement officers.