February 27, 2013 it became known about that the nationalist organization "Russian Patriotic Club" appealed to the prosecutor's office of Novokuznetsk with a complaint against the local administration. The reason was the refusal of the administration to agree on a rally of nationalists, directed against the construction of a mosque in the Zavodskoy district of Novokuznetsk. Plaintiffs point out that the administration did not justify its refusal. The rally was scheduled for March 3rd.

In February 2013 in the city of Ulan-Ude Republic of Buryatia, the court considered an administrative case under Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (propaganda and public display of Nazi paraphernalia).

March 1, 2013 Oktyabrsky District Court of Arkhangelsk delivered a sentence under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity) against the director of the Pomor Institute indigenous and small peoples of the Northern Arctic Federal University, President of the Association of Pomors of the Arkhangelsk region Ivan Moseev. Moseev was found guilty and sentenced to a fine of 100 thousand rubles.

28th of February 2013 on the radio station "Echo of Moscow" Sergei Sobyanin confirmed that Moscow authorities do not plan to build new mosques in the capital. According to mayor, there are enough mosques in the city for Muscovites-Muslims, and to build mosques for migrant authorities do not intend to. « How it turned out that praying Muslims are far from being residents of Moscow, and many are not even citizens of Russia. These are guest workers.

We publish an overview of the main and most significant events in the field of illegal application of anti-extremist legislation in Russia in February 2013. Rulemaking February 22, 2013 the State Duma of the Russian Federation in the first reading was adopted a draft "anti-extremist" amendments to the Federal the law "On freedom of conscience and on religious associations" and the Labor RF code.

February 2 2013, during a sermon in an apartment building in Lukhovitsy, Moscow Region, a member of the Witness community Jehovah I. Brovkin was beaten by one of the tenants. The man demanded that the preachers left the entrance, after which he caught up with them and inflicted several blows on I. Brovkin fist in the face. February 3rd 2013 member of the community of Jehovah's Witnesses in the village of Olen-Kolodez, Voronezh region T. Sheroziya was attacked by a fellow villager N. Epishev.

On February 27, 2013, the City Court of Volzhsk (Republic of Mariy Al) re- admitted Anastasia Konovalov guilty under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (public demonstration Nazi paraphernalia or symbols confusingly similar to Nazi) and sentenced to a fine of 500 rubles. On December 26, 2012, the World Court of Volzhsk already recognized Konovalov guilty under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses and sentenced to a fine of 500 rubles.

During February 2013 there were several cases of detention of Jehovah's Witnesses law enforcement officers in Sverdlovsk, Belgorod, Samara regions and in Moscow. In most cases, preachers were taken to the ward police, where they interrogated, rewrote passport data, sometimes photographed. In the Krasnodar Territory, a drunk policeman with rude expressions insulted preachers women. in Tyumen and In Tobolsk, several searches were carried out in the apartments of Jehovah's Witnesses.

3 February 2013 was the Kingdom Hall Jehovah's Witnesses in the village of Krasnooktyabrsky in Adygea suffered from vandals. Around 11pm two unknown men entered the territory of the prayer house, broke the windows of the building, broke the handles of the door locks, damaged the drainpipe. Community Representatives contacted the police. Recall that a year ago, in March In 2012, a similar act of vandalism was committed in the village of Krasnooktyabrsky .

In February 2013 in Kursk there were a criminal case was initiated under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (initiation of a national hate). The case was initiated against a 17-year-old a local resident who is accused of being on October 17, 2011 and January 5, 2012 published on his page in the social network "VKontakte" several xenophobic videos. Unfortunately, which commercials in question and against whom they are directed, was not reported.

On February 26, 2013, it became known that in The administration of the village of Pestravka, Samara Region, received an anonymous complaint about activities of Jehovah's Witnesses. The complaint stated that members of the community were “involved in religious activities of underage children. The authors of the letter threatened to blow up apartments of Jehovah's Witnesses.

28 February 2013, it became known that Jordan medical company, one of subsidiaries of the Perm diocese, has a debt of 1 million rubles for payment electricity. The employees of the power grids carried out an inspection, according to the result of which was an act on the offense. The check singled out three biggest offenders: medical Perm center company Immunoprophylaxis, "Perm Tomograph Pro" and "Jordan".