A criminal case has been opened in Tatarstan for anti-Caucasian calls on VKontakte.
On September 19, 2012, the prosecutor's office of Tatarstan announced that a criminal case had been opened in the city of Naberezhnye Chelny under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred). According to investigators, on May 25, 2011, on the Internet on the social network site www.vkontakte.ru, a resident of Avtograd posted an “extremist call” on his personal page, accessible to other users, in the “Notes” section.