A criminal case has been opened in Moscow in connection with the preaching of Hizb ut-Tahrir on the territory of the Historical Mosque. October 3, 2013 in Moscow was initiated criminal case under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organization of the activities of an extremist organization) in relation to a citizen Kyrgyzstan Makhmudov (born 1963).

In October 2013, in the Volgograd region, the case of the Gray Dogs group was brought to court, which is accused of destroying the Yazidi graveyard at the Petrov Val city cemetery in the Kamyshinsky district. In October 2013, in the Volgograd region, an investigation was completed into a case of desecration of burial places, committed on the basis of national hatred (paragraphs "a, b" part 2 of article 244 of the Criminal Code).

By October 2013, a verdict was passed in Kazan in the case of an anti-Russian commentary on the article “The Kaliningrad region is threatened with bankruptcy.” In October 2013, in the city of Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, a verdict was passed in the case of inciting national hatred (Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code).

Party "People's Movement "Saint Rus" demands that the picture of I. Repin, insulting Orthodox patriots, be removed to the storerooms.

Kazan Muslims opposed the arrival of Elton John in Russia. 3 October 2013 imam of the Kazan mosque Saijafar Lutfullin protested against the arrival of Elton John in Kazan. He urges Muslims to ignore the concert due to unconventional sexuality singer orientation.

In October 2013, five videos calling for violence and riots on ethnic and religious grounds were recognized as extremist in Nizhnevartovsk. In October 2013 in the city of Nizhnevartovsk, Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Yugra, the court considered the claim of the prosecutor's office demanding to recognize extremist five videos. The videos reportedly called for violence and mass riots on national and religious grounds. Unfortunately, the name of the videos is not reported.

On October 4, 2013, it became known that eight employees of correctional colonies in the Novosibirsk region were brought to disciplinary responsibility for illegally prohibited literature found on Muslim prisoners. The submissions were made by the prosecutor's office of the Novosibirsk region to the employees of correctional colonies No. 3, 8, 14, 18, 21 and LIA-10 of the GUFSIN of Russia in the Novosibirsk region.

In October 2013, Radik Nurdinov, a resident of the Republic of Bashkortostan, was found guilty under s. 282 of the Criminal Code and fined for posting on the Internet an article by Vil Mirzayanov, recognized as extremist material. On October 4, 2013, the Birsky District Court of the Republic of Bashkortostan announced that it had found Radik Nurdinov guilty of Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting ethnic hatred) and sentenced him to a fine of more than 80 thousand rubles.

On October 4, 2013, in Moscow, during an inspection, law enforcement officers seized several racist books and brochures from the Algorithm publishing house. A criminal case has been initiated under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred). On October 4, 2013, it became known that the staff of the Center for countering extremism of the police department of the central district of Moscow conducted an audit of the publishing house "Algorithm".

September 21, 2013 it became known that Moscow Hare Krishnas turned to Vladimir Putin with a request to deal with the situation around construction of a Vishnu temple in the Moscow region. They remind that 70 million rubles were collected for the construction of the temple, however, the Moscow authorities did not give permission for the construction, terminating land lease in April 2013.

Thefollowing is our monthly review of instances of xenophobia and radicalnationalism, along with any government participation or countermeasures, for September2013. The review is based on material gathered by Sova Center in the course ofour daily monitoring. Thismonth saw five people injured in racist and neo-Nazi attacks, in St.Petersburg, the Zabaikalsky Krai and the Novosibirsk region.

On October 4, 2013 , the Federal List of Extremist Materials was updated again, paragraphs were added to it. 2078-2096. The list was replenished: the song “Russia for Chocks”, a number of Ukrainian books, as well as another edition of the book “Handbook of Russian People” by Alexei Ivanov.

On October 4, 2013, RIA Novosti reported that it would file complaints with Roskomnadzor, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Justice and the Supreme Court of Russia in connection with the recognition of comments to an article on the InoSMI website as extremist materials. Recall that the decision of the Leninsky District Court of Ufa dated May 13, 2013 became known from the next update of the Federal List of Extremist Materials.

On October 4, 2013, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Tatarstan passed a verdict against Alfred Akhmadullin and Azat Valishin, accused of belonging to the At-takfir wa al-hijra organization banned in 2010 and preparing a terrorist attack. A. Akhmadullin was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 30 and pp. "a", "b", "e", "g", "l" part 2 of Art.

In October 2013, journalist Alexei Rafiev wrote to the police a statement against the head of the "Russian" Association Alexander Belov (Potkin), who hit him during a press conference on the "Russian March 2013". In October 2013, it became known that journalist Aleksey Rafiev filed a complaint with the police about beatings by his head Associations "Russians" by Alexander Belov (Potkin).