December 6, 2012 it became known that the political party " Russian United Labor Front " (ROT FRONT) finally received registration. Recall that the party could not register in for two years, during which time she received seven refusals to register from Ministry of Justice. One of the reasons for the refusal was the emblem of the party - a clenched fist. inside a star, which officials say could be interpreted as extremist symbol. From our point of view, such claims were unreasonable.

On December 6, 2012, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation confirmed the verdict in the case of involvement in the activities of "Hizb ut-Tahrir" issued in August 2012 against Ildar Ibrahimov, Rustem Gallyamov, Shamil Galimov, Mikhail Toptygin, Airat Akhmetshin and Ruslan Zainullin. Recall that the Magistrate Court of Court District No. 6 in the Kirovsky District of Ufa found I. Ibragimov, R. Gallyamov, Sh. Galimov and M. Toptygin guilty under Part 1 of Art.

In December 2012, the court extended for three months the terms of detention of three defendants in a criminal case of an attempt to arrange an explosion near the building of the Federal Migration Service of Russia for the Rostov Region in the city of Rostov-on-Don. Recall that 31-year-old Dmitry Fedorushkin, 22-year-old Alexander Svetlitsky and 29-year-old Pavel Efremov are on the bench. According to the court decision, young people will stay behind bars until April 10, 2013.

December 3, 2012 representatives of the Georgievsky parish Church of Novosibirsk, the construction of which is planned in the park on the street Chaplygin and causes public protests , made an open statement.

In December 2012 in Orel, a local resident born in 1994, studying at a technical school, was charged with committing an act of vandalism motivated by ethnic hatred (part 2 of article 214 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

On November 16, 2012, the Ezhvinsky District Court of the city of Syktyvkar of the Republic of Komi considered the request of the prosecutor's office to recognize several racist video and audio clips as extremist. It is reported that these videos were published in 2008-2011 on his page on the social network "VKontakte" by 20-year-old local resident Alexander Trufanov, who for this was fined 50 thousand rubles under Art.

On December 6, 2012, a verdict was passed in Orenburg in the case of intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm motivated by national hatred (clause “a” part 3 of article 111 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). In the dock were two 18-year-old neo-Nazis - Evgeny Ivanov and Georgy Karnaukhov, who were accused of committing an attack on a native of Uzbekistan in June 2012. It is reported that both defendants were members of the Russian Jogging. For a healthy lifestyle".

On December 5, 2012, Kanat Shantimirov, head of the administration of the governor of the Astrakhan region, proposed introducing a dress code or uniform in schools in order to prevent cases of Muslim women wearing hijabs.

On December 3, 2012, the Zarechensky District Court of the city of Tula chose for three detained young people - A. Gordeev, and minors Kh. and N., suspected of committing the murder of a citizen of Uzbekistan, a measure of restraint in the form of detention. Recall that a 36-year-old citizen of Uzbekistan was killed on November 27 this year. The attackers beat him to death with baseball bats. Detained in hot pursuit, young people are charged with paragraph "g", "l" part 2 of Art.

The following is Sova’s review of theprimary and most representative events in the misuse of Russia’santi-extremist legislation for November 2012. Lawmaking In mid-November, legislation was enactedthat would provide for revisions to the articles of the Criminal Code dealingwith espionage and treason. In addition, Article 283.1, illegally obtaininginformation constituting a state secret, was introduced.