On May 1, 2013, two May Day actions organized by ultra-right parties and associations took place in Moscow. The first, more massive procession (according to our estimates, about 500 people) started from the Oktyabrskoye Pole metro station and moved to the Shchukinskaya metro station along Marshal Biryuzov and Vasilevsky streets. Dmitry Demushkin, Alexander Belov, Vladimir Tor, Roman Zheleznov were noted among those present.

We publish an overview of the main and most significant events in the field of illegal application of anti-extremist legislation in Russia in April 2013.

May 1, 2013 in the city of Saransk of the Republic of Mordovia was a racist attack. At the intersection of Lenin Avenue and Polezhaev Street to the citizen Armenia Gevork Abrahamyan was suddenly approached by a football fan. Young man found out the ethnicity of the man, and then, shouting racist slogans beat him with punches and kicks. On the fact of the attack, a criminal case was initiated under paragraph "a" part 2 Art. 116 of the Criminal Code (beating motivated by national hatred).

April 30, 2013 in the "Daily Journal" was published Article by Irina Borogan, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Agentura.ru website, "Internet censorship for growth", dedicated to the situation with the blocking of Internet sites and the problem of the Unified register of prohibited sites. Today in Russia there are two parallel systems site blocking, writes Borogan. The old system is represented by the Federal list of extremist materials, which, in particular, includes websites.