In October 2012, a verdict was passed in Kostroma in the case of initiating national and religious hatred (part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). In the dock was a 26-year-old local resident, who was accused of having published in March-April last year on his page in one of the social networks five xenophobic videos.

On October 10, 2012, the website of the Russian Ministry of Justice became inaccessible to some clients of the Netbynet provider, which provides Internet access in Moscow, the Moscow region and several other regions of Russia. Representatives of the provider left a message on Twitter that “the Ministry of Justice has been blocked by the site administrator,” however, according to bloggers, the blocking is related to the ban on the extremist site Samizdat.

On October 10, 2012, the Moscow City Court considered a cassation appeal against the sentence of the members of the Pussy Riot group under Part 2 of Art. 213 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy and motivated by hatred). As a result of the consideration, the court replaced the sentence of Ekaterina Samutsevich to two years of suspended imprisonment with a probationary period of two years.

25 On September 2012, bailiffs sealed the building of the Iman-Vera mosque in Noyabrsk (13 Khvoynaya St.). The reason for the closure of the mosque was violation of fire safety and expired in 2006 lease agreement. By court order, the owner of the building - property department - was fined 150 thousand rubles, the mosque was closed. According to the head of the Yamalo-Nenets kazyyat, local residents were dissatisfied with the proximity to the mosque.

On October 10, 2012, the world court recognized Rashid Tregulov, a resident of the Neverkinsky district of the Penza region, guilty of committing an administrative offense for hours. 1 Article. 5.60 Administrative Code (slander) And imposed a fine of 1,000 rubles for spreading false information about the local imam. In the summer of 2012, R. Tregulov, being in a state of intoxication, told the inhabitants of the village of Demina that the local imam - briber and drug addict.

On October 4, 2012, the Orenburg Regional Court, considering 14 appeals against the decision of the Leninsky District Court of Orenburg to recognize 68 Islamic materials as extremist, appointed a new literary examination of the case. The prosecutor's office requested an examination.

October 10 2012, the Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia denied the information provided in September 2012 in the program "Maximum Program" (NTV). The heroes of the program convicted of murder were not members of the Society of Witnesses Jehovah. The religious organization does not resort to hypnosis, does not encourage believers to bequeath all property in favor of the community and does not forbid them to communicate with unbelieving relatives.

At the beginning of October 2012, it became known that in connection with the “anti-clerical shares” in several Moscow churches increased security. In the Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit at the Lazarevsky cemetery, the rector of which hegumen Sergiy (Rybko), Cossacks are on duty and it is established CCTV. At the entrance to the temple hangs the following announcement: “ Dear parishioners!

On October 10, 2012, the Federal List of Extremist Materials was again updated , in item 1463 was added to it. The list was replenished with the book of the ideologist of the "Conceptual Party "Unity"" (current name - "Course of Truth and Unity") Major General Konstantin Petrov, who died in 2009. Recall the ideology of the KPE is based on a collection of documents called the “Concept public security "Dead Water". The concept itself is a bizarre mixture of Stalinism and mysticism.

The following is our review of the primaryand most representative cases of the misuse of Russia’s anti-extremismlegislation, covering the month of September 2012.Rulemaking Towards the end of the month, the StateDuma adopted in the first reading a bill containing updates to Russia’s laws onespionage and treason. The Criminal Code’s current language regarding treasondefines it as promoting hostile actions – on behalf of foreign states ororganizations – that threaten Russia’sexternal security.

October 10, 2012 Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Arkhangelsk Region and the Nenets Autonomous Okrug reported that the director of the Pomor Institute of Indigenous and Minorities of the Northern Arctic Federal University, the president of the Association of Pomors of the Arkhangelsk region, Ivan Moseev, was charged under Part 1 of Art.

In October 2012, in Orel, a verdict was pronounced in the case of incitement of national hatred (part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). In the dock was 25-year-old Alexander Martynov, who was accused of what he published on his page in the social network "VKontakte" racist videos containing scenes of violence against non-Slavs. The court found the young man guilty and sentenced to 8 months in a strict regime colony.

October 10 2012, it became known that in the Tatishchevsky and Atkarsky districts of the Saratov Three worship crosses were sawn down in the area. One of the crosses was located in Oktyabrsky town on the Saratov-Tambov highway, the other two - in the Atkarsky district. Representatives the dioceses turned to the police. Recall that in October 2012 worship crosses were cut down in the Vologda Oblast and in Moscow . Sources Crosses cut down in the Saratov region // Interfax-religion. 2012.