June 24, 2013 Military Court of the North Sea Garrison found Northern Fleet officer Denis Bespalov guilty under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (participation in the activities of an extremist organization) and sentenced him to a fine of 75 thousand rubles. The officer was accused in the fact that since 2011 he has taken part in the meetings of the Murmansk branch "Another Russia".

June 26, 2013 it became known that the Federal Property Management Agency is ready to transfer the Russian Orthodox Church to the Novgorod community Old Believer Church (ROCC) the building of the former Elias Church on Znamenskaya street. Currently, the premises are the workshops of artists.

In June 2013, the Maykop City Court issued a verdict on the case of inciting ethnic hatred (part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code). In the dock was 21-year-old Artur Bessmettny, whom accused of having published on the social network VKontakte on December 5, 2012 racist video “Format 18. Country Story”, which contains calls to violence against blacks.

On June 26, 2013, the Federation Council approved the bill "On amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation in order to counteract insult religious beliefs and feelings of citizens, desecration of objects and objects religious veneration (pilgrimage), places of religious rites and ceremonies." Recall The draft law proposes a new version of Art.

Edited by Alexander Verkhovsky Contents Summary Creation of Regulatory Acts MAJOR TRENDS : “Excessive Vigilance” : The Internet and Anti-Extremism : Incidental Victims of Inappropriate Anti-Extremism PRINCIPAL TARGETS OF PERSECUTION : Religious Groups : Political and Civic Activists : Media Topics A BIT OF STATISTICS Anti-extremist legislation is inherently politicized because it suggests penalties for ideologically-motivated actions.

In June 2013, in the city of Shumikha, Kurgan Region, a sentence was passed in the case of inciting ethnic and religious hatred (Part 1, Article 282 of the Criminal Code) and illegal acquisition of weapons and explosives (part 1 of article 222 of the Criminal Code). In the dock was a 35-year-old local resident who was accused of that he, between July 2012 and March 2013, published on his page in the social network "VKontakte" 12 videos and 9 photos with xenophobic content.

On June 26, 2013, the government submitted a bill to the State Duma on additional grounds for an unscheduled inspection of NCOs.

26 June 2013, according to Interfax, a drunken man in the Church of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God in Tikhvin Lane in Moscow threatened parishioners with a gun. Man was taken to the police. Parish members do not comment on the incident. Sources Drunken hooligan with a gun scared the parishioners of one of the Moscow churches // Interfax. 2013. June 26.

On June 26, 2013, the prosecutor's office of the Smolensk region reported that that the editor-in-chief of one of the local newspapers was brought by the world court to liability under Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (propaganda or public display of Nazi symbols or paraphernalia). The reason was the fact that an article published in a newspaper on countering extremism was illustrated with a swastika.

In June 2013, in the city of Barnaul, Altai Territory, there were a criminal case was initiated under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national and social hatred). The case was initiated upon the appearance in June 2013 on several websites in Internet of xenophobic articles published by one, unidentified person.