On July 9, 2012, the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Omsk Region opened a criminal case under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred) against a local resident (born 1958) on the fact of xenophobic publications in social networks “In the circle of friends and My World.

A bill including amendments to Article 20.3 of Russia’s Administrative Code, a section of the law On Countering Extremist Activity dealing with the display, manufacture, purchase and sale of Nazi attributes and symbols, was proposed in April and passed last week at a first reading in the State Duma. Sova opposes the initiative for reasons including the law’s vague wording, which provides for widespread abuse.

We publish areview of the main and most representative events related to the misuse ofanti-extremist legislation in June 2012. Creation ofLaws On June 7, 2012, a draft of the law "OnAmendments to the Federal Law 'On the Protection of Children from InformationHarmful to their Health and Development' and Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation"was presented in the State Duma.

On July 8, 2012, in an electric train near the city of Egoryevsk, Kazan direction, a group of young people beat Dmitry Alyaev, a correspondent for the Novye Izvestia newspaper, who expressed disagreement with the slogan "Russia for the Russians!".

On July 9, 2012, the prosecutor's office of the Novovyatsky district of the city of Kirov announced that it had issued a warning about the inadmissibility of carrying out extremist activities of the regional public organization "Club of Fans of the Dynamo Kirov Football Club." During the prosecutor's check, it was found that one of the fans club at the stadium "Russia" during a football match threw up right hand in a fascist salute.

On July 10, 2012, it became known that the investigative department of the FSB of the Russian Federation had completed the investigation of the criminal case against the ideologist of the far-right group “Northern Brotherhood” Pyotr Khomyakov. In the final version, Khomyakov was charged under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud), Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred).

On July 10, 2012, the Federal List of Extremist materials”, paragraphs 1273-1279 were added to it. The list was supplemented by xenophobic videos from the VKontakte network, recognized as extremist by various courts of the Kursk region, and an article calling for armed jihad.

On July 6, 2012, the St. Petersburg City Court delivered a verdict in the case of the leader of the neo-Nazi group NS / WP (recognized as extremist), 21-year-old Georgy Timofeev . G. Timofeev pleaded guilty, agreed with the charges brought against him. Since he had previously made a deal with the investigation and helped him, the court sentenced Timofeev to 13 years in prison in a strict regime colony.