On January 22, 2013, the Federal List of Extremist materials, paragraphs were added to it. 1643-1650. The list was supplemented by: several issues of the Islamist magazine Al-Wai; racist a book by an unknown author, acting under the pseudonym Sokol; Alfred's memoirs Rosenberg - the ideologist of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), executed by decision of the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg; racist video; anti-Semitic book by V. Pranov.

In January 2013, the Kaluga District Court rendered a verdict in the case of inciting national hatred (Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). In the dock was 23-year-old local resident Alexei Golubev, who was accused of publishing several videos on his page on the social network VKontakte in early 2011 that insulted people from the Caucasus and blacks and called for violence against them.

January 18, 2013 it became known that the Yaroslavl diocese requires transfer five temples of the Yaroslavl Museum-Reserve to the use of the Church. Speech is about the churches of the Epiphany, Elijah the Prophet, John the Baptist, the Nativity of Christ and Nikola Nadein. All of them are already used by the diocese in conjunction with the museum: in churches worship services are held, the schedule of which is agreed upon by the parties.

January 21, 2013 Minister of Internal Affairs of Tatarstan Artem Khokhorin during the final collegium of the Ministry for Tatarstan stated that the legal responsibility for organizing and participating in radical groups does not match the danger these groups pose to society. By in his opinion, “effective legal instruments are needed to protect citizens” from extremist activity. A.

In January 2013, the Remontnensky District Court of the Rostov Region considered an administrative case under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (dissemination of extremist materials), initiated against a resident of the village Zavetnoe. The young man was accused of publishing in August 2011 on on his page in the social network "VKontakte" banned video "Russia 88" (Section 1102 of the Federal List of Extremist Materials ).

On January 20, 2013, the NTV channel showed the film Boris Korchevnikov "I don't believe!" Dedicated to the "information war" against the Russian Orthodox Church. The announcement of the film on the channel's website promised journalistic investigation into the activities of "paid bloggers and political technologists", allegedly organized informational "stuffing", exposing "atheistic funds and their subversive activities”, as well as talk about “the real problems churches".

January 21, 2013 became aware of complaints Muslim prisoners to the actions of the administration of IK-5 in Mordovia. The prisoners distributed a video in which talk about pressure from the administration and defiantly open veins. Among the complaints, discrimination on the basis of religion is also mentioned. complained Russian Muslim. The wife of one of the prisoners told IslamNews.ru that the administration of the colony deliberately provokes conflicts on ethnic and religious grounds.

January 18, 2013 Soviet District Court of Rostov-on-Don delivered a verdict in the case of public calls for extremist activities with using the media (part 2 of article 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

In January 2013, the Leninsky District Court of the city of Voronezh considered administrative case under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (dissemination of extremist materials). The accused in the case was a 19-year-old resident of Belgorod - a student of one of Voronezh universities, who was accused of publishing several prohibited materials. Unfortunately, what exactly the young man published was not reported.

On January 21, 2013, the Russian Foreign Ministry published a commentary on the report of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom. “We note the biased, biased and tendentious nature of the information that the authors of this opus based their work on,” the Foreign Ministry document says. The outrage of Russian diplomats, in particular, was caused by accusations of infringement of the rights of religious communities, in particular Muslims.

In January 2013, the justice of the peace of court district No. 30 Kozelsky district of the Kaluga region considered an administrative case under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (distribution extremist materials) launched against a local resident Denis Mironov. The young man was accused of publishing on his page in one of the social networks several banned neo-Nazi songs group "Kolovrat". The judge found the young man guilty and fined him.

On October 31, 2012, the Human Rights Center "Memorial" hosted a round table "Pressure on followers of Said Nursi in Russia". The discussion was attended, in particular, by the expert of the SOVA Center Maria Kravchenko . We bring to the attention of the readers the transcript of her speech, posted on the HRC "Memorial" website . We just talked about the shortcomings of the anti-extremist legislation and that it needs to be revised.

January 18, 2013 Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Mordovia appealed to the court demanding that four articles be recognized as extremist. Unfortunately, what kind of articles are we talking about? reported.

On January 22, 2013 it became known that for the celebration of the 700th anniversary Sergius of Radonezh in the Trinity-Sergius Lavra in 2014, it was decided to allocate 6.5 billion rubles - 3.5 billion from the federal budget and 3 billion from the budget of the Moscow areas. According to the Acting Governor of the Moscow region of Andrey Vorobyov, these funds will be used for the improvement cities and creating conditions for receiving tourists.

In January 2013, it became known that in the city of Korolev Moscow region completed the investigation of a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 UK RF (inciting national hatred). The young man B. will soon be in the dock, who is accused of publishing on his page on the social network VKontakte several videos calling for violence against people from the North Caucasus. It is reported that the defendant supplied the published materials with xenophobic and obscene comments.