On June 7, 2013, the government submitted a bill to the State Duma “On Amendments to Article 16 of the Federal Law “On Freedom of Conscience and about religious associations. The bill establishes a list of places where it is possible conducting worship services without the consent of the authorities.

June 10, 2013 deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation from the faction LDPR Yaroslav Nilov and Ruslan Kalyuzhny submitted draft amendments to the State Duma to the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offenses. Developers document propose to increase the statute of limitations for bringing to administrative responsibility for violations of the legislation on freedom of conscience and on religious associations.

In June 2013, the world court of the city of Livny, Oryol region delivered a verdict in the case of public calls for extremist activities (Part 1 Art. 280 of the Criminal Code). On the dock was a prisoner of the penitentiary Colony No. 2 R. Arsanukaev, serving a sentence for robbery (Article 161 of the Criminal Code) and violent acts of a sexual nature (Art. 132 of the Criminal Code).

The following is our review of the primary and mostrepresentative events in the misuse of Russia’s anti-extremist legislationin May 2013. Lawmaking On May 21 the State Duma adopted in the second reading abill to protect believers’ feelings, with an amendment being added in thatreading.

On June 11, 2013, the State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted in the third reading the bill “On amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation in order to counter insult to religious beliefs and feelings of citizens, desecration of objects and objects of religious veneration (pilgrimage), places of religious rites and ceremonies." Let us remind you that the draft law proposes a new version of Art.

In June 2013, a court in Omsk considered a criminal case on incitement of national hatred (part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code). In the dock was a 54-year-old local resident who was accused of that in the past and the year before last he repeatedly published in social networks "In the circle of friends" and "My world" xenophobic texts calling for violence. It turned out that the man had a mental disorder. The court decided to send him to compulsory treatment.

In June 2013, it became known that the city prosecutor's office Sterlitamak of the Republic of Bashkortostan filed a lawsuit demanding recognition extremist page of the user Vasily Markin on the VKontakte network. Court this requirement was met in full. It is reported that on his page a young man published a video called "Format 18" and an album with racist photographs. Details, unfortunately, are not disclosed.

In June 2013 in the city of Neftekamsk, Republic of Bashkortostan a verdict was passed in the case of inciting ethnic hatred (part 1 of article 282 UK). In the dock was 24-year-old Sergey Kuzminykh, who was accused of publishing on April 9 to December 5, 2011 racist materials on his page on the social network VKontakte. It is reported that we are talking about some xenophobic pictures and prohibited by the Dorogomilovsky District Court of Moscow, a video representing a clip for the song.

On June 11, 2013, it became known about the persecution suffered by the Krasnoyarsk poets and journalists Artur Matveev and Vasily Prokushev, the authors of the satirical absurdist "folk-poetic tale" "Jew the Vampire" (written on the model of the fairy tale "About Fedot the Archer") and based on her video performance. The head of one of the Krasnoyarsk Jewish communities, Yuri Livshits, filed a complaint with the local branch of the FSB and called for the initiation of a criminal case under Art.