On July 4, 2013, the Pervomaisky District Court of Kirov refused to satisfy complaints from employees of the headquarters of Alexei Navalny about the actions of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Kirov, who seized a large volume of printed matter from the headquarters in May under the pretext of checking it for extremism. As a reminder, we consider such actions of law enforcement agencies illegal.

In July 2013, a case under part 1 was initiated in Murmansk Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national and religious hatred). The case was initiated against Roman Dunaev, who is accused of that he published on his page on the social network "VKontakte" prohibited xenophobic videos and images. Unfortunately, what kind of materials are we talking about and against who they are sent to is not reported.

In July 2013 in the village of Svetly, Sysert district Sverdlovsk region, a criminal case was initiated under paragraph "g" part 2 of Art. 105 UK (murder committed by an organized group). The case was initiated against four local residents aged from 16 to 23 years old, who are accused of being on the night of 14 to 15 May 2013 kicked and beaten to death with baseball bats a taxi driver from Central Asia.

In July 2013, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Trans-Baikal Territory reported statistics on extremist crimes in the region for the first half of 2013. (See the information from the SOVA Center “ Crimes of an extremist nature ”). It is reported that during this time 4 criminal cases were initiated under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (incitement of national and religious hatred) and Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremism).

On June28, 2013, the Moscow City Court approved a claim by the General Prosecutor'sOffice of Moscow on the barring of the Autonomous Combat Terrorist Organization(ACTO) as a terrorist one. Readersmight recall that on April 12, 2012, the sentence was imposed on 10 members ofACTO (more information here). In July of the same year, the Supreme Court commuted the sentences for 4 out of 10 members of theorganization.

The following isour monthly review of incidences of xenophobia and radical nationalism, alongwith any government countermeasures, for June 2013. The review is based onmaterial gathered by Sova Center in the course of our daily monitoring. We are not aware of any victims of racistor xenophobic attacks duringthe period under report.

On July 3, 2013, the State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill on combating extremism on the Internet and finance. Let us remind you that the bill was first introduced to the Duma back in August 2011, but its consideration was postponed. The bill provides for criminal liability with confiscation of property for financing extremist activities - for this purpose, a new article 282.3 is being introduced into the Criminal Code, as well as tougher measures against propaganda on the Internet.

July 4, 2013 near the building of section No. 201 of St. Petersburg Magistrate's Court, there was an attack by neo-Nazis on LGBT activists. On this day, the court considered the case of the nationalist Dmitry Daineki, who, we recall, is accused of attacking members of the Alliance heterosexuals for LGBT equality and LGBT activists themselves during rally on June 12, 2012.

July 3, 2013 on the street. Nightingale Grove in Kurkino (SZAO Moscow) held a rally against the construction of an Orthodox church. present at the event, the head of the council, residents showed a list of those who disagreed with construction - 900 signatures. towards the middle On July 4, there were 1,100 signatures against the construction. Recall that the construction of the temple began in early June 2013 on the site between kindergartens.

In July 2013, in the city of Cheboksary, the Republic of Chuvashia, a verdict was passed in the case of inciting ethnic hatred (part 1 of article 282 UK). In the dock was a 26-year-old local resident, who was accused of publishing on his website in 2010-2012 page in one of the social networks four xenophobic videos that call for violence over exits from Central Asia and the Caucasus. All four videos are included in the Federal List extremist materials.

In July 2013, in Arkhangelsk, the investigation into the attack on two students of the Astrakhan State Technical University was completed.

On June 27, 2013 the Prosecutor's Office of the Chechen Republic sent to court a lawsuit demanding that the microblog site be recognized as extremist Kavkaz Center on Twitter. The site itself was banned by decision of the Nikulinskiy District Court of Moscow in September 2011. The site has already been included in the Federal List of Extremist materials (paragraph 985).

July 3, 2013 at Novosibirsk airport Two men were arrested for carrying banned books. 4 books were confiscated from a 30-year-old man, a resident of Omsk "forbidden Wahhabi literature", which he brought from Kyrgyzstan. At twenty-year-old man, a resident of Altai, who flew in from Istanbul, 29 books and 15 leaflets (two books were written in Russian, the rest in Arabic). Passengers were charged with administrative offenses under Art.

In July 2013, an investigation into the case of incitement of national hatred (part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code). A 19-year-old local resident will soon be in the dock M. Grishanov, who is accused of what he published on his page in social network "VKontakte" racist videos with scenes of beating "non-Slavs". The case has already been transferred to the Zavodskoy District Court of Orel for consideration on the merits.

In July 2013 in the city of Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk region a criminal case was initiated under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting a national hate). The case was initiated against an as yet unidentified person, which was published in the social network last autumn racist video with scenes of beating "non-Slavs". Unfortunately, it was not reported which video in question. It is only known that it was previously banned and included in the Federal List. extremist materials.