On January 18, 2013, a meeting of the working group on civil liberties and civic engagement, operating under the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights (HRC), was held in Moscow.

On January 17, 2013, a criminal case was initiated under Article 115 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (intentional infliction of minor bodily harm) on the fact of beating an assistant imam in Nefteyugansk. Recall that the assistant to the imam was beaten in his office on January 14, 2013 by a Muslim, who burst into the office after prayer with the words "You are praying wrong." 16 January assistant to the imam contacted the police.

On January 15, 2013, a court in the Perm Territory sentenced a resident of the Vereshchaginsky District who posted an anti-Semitic video on his page in one of the social networks. The 28-year-old man was convicted under Art. 20.29 Administrative Code of the Russian Federation (mass dissemination of extremist materials included in the published federal list of extremist materials). He was fined 1,000 rubles.

On January 17, 2013, it became known that on December 26, 2012, the World Court of Volzhsk (Republic of Mari El) found Anastasia Konovalova, a student from Volzhsk, guilty of an offense provided for by Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (public demonstration of the Nazi paraphernalia or symbols confusingly similar to Nazi), and sentenced to a fine of 500 rubles.

Here we publish comments from the authors of “Owl”, dedicated to the problems of the relationship between religion, society and the state, published on other sites. Comments are listed in reverse chronological order. “On the one hand, there is a noticeable demand for something Orthodox-political, and on the other hand, for forceful actions.” Commentary by A. Verkhovsky on the upcoming founding congress of the National Conservative Party // Nezavisimaya Gazeta. 2013. November 27.

On January 17, 2013, the media wrote that the Latvian authorities had banned Russian nationalist Maxim Martsinkevich (Tesak) from entering. This was reported by the security police of the country. The reasons for the refusal are unknown. Tesak planned to hold a seminar in Riga. Recall that M.

On January 18, 2013, the Federal List was again updated extremist materials, paragraphs. 1623-1643. The list was replenished with: anti-government videos from YouTube, anti-state leaflets, the Islamic site ansardin.wordpress.com, materials from the Internet blog http//alstrangers.livejournal.com calling for armed jihad, another book by S. Nursi, xenophobic materials from the network " VKontakte, Russian Host magazine, Russian nationalism veteran A.

On January 18, 2012, it became known that the deputy prosecutor of the region approved the indictment in a criminal case against a resident of the city of Minusinsk, Yuri Khamidulin (born 1956), accused under Part 1 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public calls for extremist activities). The criminal case was sent for consideration to the justice of the peace of the court district in Minusinsk.

On January 18, 2013, lawyer Anatoly Pchelintsev, in an interview with journalists from Nezavisimaya newspapers” commented on the bill of the Ministry of Justice on amendments to Art. 16 Federal Law "On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations". According to A. Pchelintsev, the initiative of the Ministry of Justice is superfluous.

On January 17, 2013, in Artemovsk (Sverdlovsk Region), Alexander Vakorin, a deputy of the Artyomovsk city district, was detained. local residents rank among the leaders of the local youth gang "Lesnovsky". According to investigators, A. Vakorin posted a video with "extremist content" on the Internet. The case was initiated under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred).

Between January 9 and 16 January 2013, five local religious organizations of Muslims of Bashkortostan. Among them are the Muslim community of the village of Abraevo of Chishminsky district and the village of "Mahallya" community Stariy Artaul, village of Yanaul district, village of Kushkulevo, Nurimanov district Tally-Syza and Novy Tumutuk, Bakalinsky District, Bashkortostan. Sources 5 new Muslim parishes registered in Bashkortostan // Islam in the Russian Federation. 2013. January 18.

On January 17, 2013, the Prosecutor's Office of the Kostroma Region, together with the Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Kostroma Region, conducted an investigation into the distribution of an article on the Internet "aimed at inciting ethnic and religious hatred against representatives of the Jewish ethnic group who profess Judaism ." According to the prosecutor's office, the text contains " negative assessments of peoples other than the Jewish, expressed with

On January 17, 2013, it became known that the Buddhists of Tuva appealed to the Supreme Khural (parliament) with a proposal to make the Buddhist New Year a day off calendar. Parliament is ready to consider this issue. Recall that the New Year (Shagaa) in Tuva is a movable holiday. In 2013 he falls on February 11th. Sources Another New Year's holiday may appear in Russia // Radio "Mayak". 2013. January 17.

January 17, 2013 was doused with gasoline and a bow cross was set on fire in Bogdanovsky, Kizilsky district, Chelyabinsk areas. According to local residents, the vandals drove up to the worship cross on Mira street by car without number plates around 18 hours. The issue of initiating a criminal case is being resolved. Sources Nevzorova D. The department for combating extremism was engaged in setting fire to the cross in the Kizilsky district // Access. 2013. January 18.

On January 18, 2013, the media reported that in Kaliningrad, Alexei Budanov, a former military journalist of the naval newspaper "Guardian of the Baltic", a captain of the II rank of the reserve, saw a portrait of Field Marshal Erich von Manstein in the office of the military prosecutor's office of the city. Manstein is known for calling for the starvation of Russians in 1941, and also for declaring the need for "cruel punishment" of Soviet Jews.