We bring to your attention article by Aidar Sultanov, first published in the journal "Lawyer" No. 7, 2012. Published with the consent of the author. "The higher the to understand a man of God, the better he will know him. And the better he will know god, the more will approach him, imitate his goodness, mercy and love for people.

July 23, 2012 Norwegian information and analytical organization "Forum 18" , covering the problems of religious freedom in the countries of the former USSR, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, published an overview of the situation with freedom of conscience in Russia in the light of large-scale abuses of anti-extremist legislation.

On August 12, 2012, in Moscow, on Bolshaya Pereyaslavskaya Street, a group of unknown people attacked a black man. A passerby turned to the 26-year-old traffic inspector for help. A police officer intervened and tried to stop the beating. Then the attackers attacked the police lieutenant. As a result of the attack, the policeman was hospitalized. Two attackers have been detained. Sources A policeman who stood up for an African-American was beaten in the center of Moscow // Rosbalt. 2012.

On August 15, 2012, the Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court (SC) of the Russian Federation dismissed the complaint of the defense of Nazi skinhead Denis Voloshin, who was convicted of murder motivated by hatred. Thus, the verdict of the Moscow City Court of June 20 came into force. Recall that Voloshin was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison in a penal colony. The collegium removed from the convict an additional punishment in the form of one year of restriction of freedom.

At the beginning of August 2012, in the town of Chusovoi, Perm Territory, a trial began in the case of a gang of 6 neo-Nazis who committed 5 murders. homeless and 9 attacks on homeless people and people with non-Slavic appearance. Attacks on people by young people were filmed and posted on the internet. The band has been around since 2009. The eldest of the Nazi skinheads, 22-year-old N., worked as a nurse in Chusovskaya hospital. The rest studied at vocational schools.

August 15, 2012 at Nizhny Novgorod branch of the interregional public organization "Committee Against Torture" was tested by order of the regional prosecutor's office. According to the deputy director of the organization, representatives of the prosecutor's office, employees of the FSB, police and the Ministry of Justice Russia checked compliance with the law on public organizations and the law on countering extremism.

On August 12, 2012, the Investigative Committee for the Irkutsk Region transferred to the Irkutsk Regional Court a criminal case against a student Artyom Anufriev Medical University, born in 1992 and Nikita Lytkin born in 1993 Recall that from December 2010 to April 2011 in the Irkutsk microdistrict Akademgorodok there was a series of attacks on local residents. The townspeople were attacked in the evening, beaten to death with hammers and bats.

On August 9, 2012, the Investigative Committee of the RF Investigative Committee for the Astrakhan Region initiated a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of hatred and enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity on the grounds of race, nationality).

August 15, 2012 in Nizhny Novgorod, a witness accusations in the case of Antifa-RASH Alexander Cherny stated in court that he testified against the defendants under pressure from local CPE. According to the lawyer of the defendants Dmitry Dinze, Cherny said he was retracting all of his testimony against Albert Gainutdinov, Pavel Krivonosov, Artem Bystrov, Dmitry Kolesov and Oleg Gembaruka, with the last two of which he was not even familiar.

On August 11, 2012, at about 11:30 p.m., Congo-born Fabrice Cond (born 1984) was attacked in Moscow by several young men. The attack was accompanied by racist chants. The victim was also robbed. A native of the Congo was hospitalized. He left a statement with the police. Sources Information provided by the Civic Assistance Committee.

On August 14, 2012, the RF IC for the Republic of Bashkortostan in respect of a 28-year-old resident of the city of Sterlitamak a criminal case was initiated under paragraph “a” part 2 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or hostility, as well as the humiliation of human dignity).