In April 2013, in the city of Syktyvkar of the Komi Republic, completed the investigation of the case of inciting ethnic hatred (part 1 of article 282 UK). A 21-year-old local will soon be in the dock resident accused of being from March 2010 to February 2012 published on his page in the social network "VKontakte" materials directed against anti-fascists, immigrants from Central Asia and the North Caucasus, and other xenophobic materials.

On April 29, 2013, hearings on the Universal Periodic Review of the Russian Federation were held at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. Alexander Verkhovsky, director of the SOVA Center, spoke at the event “Unprecedented repressions against religious minorities and NGOs in Russia” dedicated to the hearing. His speech was devoted to the problems of “anti-extremism” and new laws affecting not only religious, but also other NGOs, as well as the issue of protecting the feelings of believers.

April 28, 2013 Rector of the Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God city ​​of Kaltan, Kemerovo region, received a text message threatening to blow up the temple. The operational group, which arrived on a call, evacuated those who were in the temple and examined premises, but found no explosive devices. After a while, law enforcement officers detained a 52-year-old woman with disabilities and confiscated her the phone number from which the threatening message was sent.

At the end of April 2013 it became known that in March 2013 year, a resident of the Matveevo-Kurgan district of the Rostov region, Dmitry Smolnikov, was found guilty under Art.

In April 2013, Voronezh initiated administrative case under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (dissemination of extremist materials) and Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (propaganda and public demonstration of Nazi symbols). The case was filed against a 17-year-old college student, who is accused of publishing prohibited documents on one of the social networks audio and video clips, as well as materials containing Nazi symbols and paraphernalia.

April 29, 2013 it became known about the administrative case under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (dissemination of extremist materials), initiated against the director of the Kineshma city central library system (Ivanovo region). occasion for persecution of steel found in the reading rooms of city libraries books listed on the Federal List of Extremist Materials, access to which all readers had.

April 29, 2012 in Geneva during the 16th session of the Working group of the UN Human Rights Council for the holding of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), the second national report of the Russian Federation. After the report of the Russian side, delegates from different countries expressed their recommendations to Russia in the field of improving the situation with observance of human rights.

On April 29, 2013, it became known that a resident of Perm was dismissed due to disagreements with the boss on religious grounds. A 42-year-old man worked as a repairman for a welding equipment of the service center, whose office was recently consecrated according to the Orthodox rite. The man was dissatisfied with this fact, told his superiors that he did not Christian, and allowed himself jokes about Orthodoxy. After that, at the urging the commercial director was fired.

April 24, 2013 it became known that at a meeting on ethno-confessional theme, held under the chairmanship of the Deputy Governor of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug Alexei Bulaev, one of officials accused the Baptists of forcibly converting the indigenous population peninsula in their faith.

At the end of April 2013, it became known that the Volkhov city court refused to satisfy the transport prosecutor's office in a lawsuit against the Internet provider LLC "Volkhov-Online", which contained a requirement to restrict the staff of the Volkhov hospital of JSC "Russian Railways" access to sites included in the Federal list of extremist materials.