In July 2013, a criminal case was opened in Sochi under Part 2 of Art. 1 st. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred). The case was initiated against a previously convicted 34-year-old local a resident who is accused of racist propaganda. Either in December 2011 or whether in January 2012 he began to show on the street to four underage young people on the street a xenophobic video and call to commit racist attacks on non-Slavs.

On July 1, 2013, in the program “The City of Time” on the Radio “Freedom” (host - Vladimir Kara -Murza), the head of the program “Right to asylum” of the Institute of Human Rights of Elena Ryabinina and the director of the Center for “SOVA” Alexander Verkhovsky was held. The theme of the program: "Protection of traditional values ​​or the path to obscurantism?" Discussion video:

June 29, 2013 in St. Petersburg was attacked for a native of Uzbekistan born in 1982. The victim himself said that he was attacked by an unknown person. house number 31 on the Vyborg highway and stabbed him several times. Fortunately, the victim managed to survive. He was delivered to hospital. No robbery was reported. The issue of initiating a criminal case is being resolved. Sources On the Vyborg highway, an unknown person attacked a guest worker with a knife // Fontanka.ru. 2013. July 1.

We are not aware of any casualties violent incidents involving racist and xenophobic motivated violence in June 2013. Only the first six months in 22 regions of Russia, 6 people died and at least 76 were injured two people received serious death threats. At least 2 acts of vandalism took place in June, motivated by hatred or neo-Nazi ideological attitudes - the synagogue in Smolensk and the mosque in Ivanovo suffered. Total since the beginning of the year there were at least 27 such actions.

On July 2, 2013, the Constitutional Court refused to consider the complaint of Vladislav Kochemarov, who challenged the constitutionality of several provisions of the Federal Law "On countering extremist activity.

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

June 28, 2013 Barnaul Garrison Military Court Altai Territory issued a verdict in the case of bullying of military personnel in military unit 41659. Taiga Bakhmudov and Zhargal were in the dock Dondupov, who were accused of forcing other colleagues to pose with them for humiliating pictures, wrote the words "Buryat" and "Dag 05" on their backs, as well as offensive language. Some of these photos were posted by young people on their pages on the Odnoklassniki social network.

On July 2, 2013, the Ostankino Court of Moscow recognized the deputy Sloboda District Duma of the Kirov Region and the owner of the National Reserve Corporation Alexander Lebedev guilty of a crime under paragraphs. "a", "b" part 2 of Art. 116 of the Criminal Code (beating out of hooligan motives and based on political hatred), and sentenced to 150 hours of compulsory labor. Recall that Lebedev was also accused under paragraph "b" part 1 of Art.

July 2, 2013 Dzerzhinsky District Court of Nizhny Novgorod region denied the prosecutor's office its demand to recognize extremist material monograph by S. Dmitrievsky, B. Gvareli and O. Chelysheva "International tribunal for Chechnya. The court took into account the results of the psychological and linguistic examination , held in the Moscow ANO "Center for Applied Linguistics".