In the Kemerovo region, the building where worship services are held Jehovah's Witnesses, suffered from attacks by vandals. Building facade damaged windows and one room. On the night of May 17, 2014, unknown people threw stones at building of Jehovah's Witnesses in Tashtagol. One of the windows was damaged protective metal mesh, in several places on the facade the facing material is damaged. Inside the premises from the blow punched drywall. The believers turned to the police.

In the Tver region, employees of the center "E" under the pretext search for explosives tried to interfere with the worship of Jehovah's Witnesses, but agreed to defer inspection until the end of service. May 17, 2014 in the village of Yamok, Tver region, several buses with OMON fighters and employees of the Center "E" drove up to the building, where worship of Jehovah's Witnesses.

We we publish an overview of the main and most significant events in the field of misuse of anti-extremist legislation in Russia in May 2014. Rulemaking 5 May 2014, President Vladimir Putin immediately signed the entire package of anti-terrorist laws proposed by a group of deputies from all four factions in January 2014 of the year.

At the end of May 2014, the prosecutor's office of the Moskovsky district of the city of Kaliningrad announced that the court recognized the video file "Appeal of the fighters of the Slavic Union to the Russians" as extremist.

On June 3, 2014, in Simferopol, Shevket Kaibullaev, editor-in-chief of the Crimean Tatar newspaper Avdet, was warned against violating the law on countering extremism. The reason for the sanctions was the use of the expressions "annexation", "occupation" and "temporary occupation of Crimea".

Vandals paint the fence of the Witnesses' worship building Jehovah in the Ivanovo region. On May 15, 2014, unidentified persons desecrated the building for services of Jehovah's Witnesses in Kineshma. Believers found inscriptions on the fence, made with spray paint. In particular, it was written "sect".

At the beginning of June 2014 in Novorossiysk on On the fence of the sailors' hospital on Mikhail Borisov Street, images of a swastika appeared. Correspondent about this The media reported to the administration of the Eastern District. Fascist images were painted over by the city administration.

Edited by Alexander Verkhovsky Сontents: SUMMARY LEGISLATION RELATING TO RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS : Federal legislation : Regional initiatives : Initiatives not successfully progressed in 2013 PROBLEMS RELATING TO PLACES OF WORSHIP : Problems with the construction of religious buildings : Problems with existing religious buildings DEFENDING BELIEVERS’ FEELINGS LIQUIDATION OF RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS AND DENIAL OF REGISTRATION DISCRIMINATION AGAINST RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS AND CITIZENS ON THE BASIS

On June 3, 2014, Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova applied to the Constitutional Court with a request to check the application of Art. 213 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism). According to Tolokonnikova, this article contradicts the Constitution of the Russian Federation, in particular, Ch. 2 tbsp. 29, which guarantees civil rights and freedoms. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and Ekaterina Samutsevich were found guilty under Part 2 of Art.

In May 2014, no fewer than 17 people fellvictim of racist and neo-Nazi attacks, and one of them was killed. Theseattacks were reported in Saint-Petersburg (3 injured), the Astrakhan region (1injured), the Krasnodar territory (1 killed, 7 injured), Nizhny Novgorod andNovosibirsk regions (2 injured in both).

Unidentified persons desecrated several Muslim graves on rural cemetery in the Orenburg region. June 2, 2014 visitors to the Muslim cemetery of the village Nezhinka of the Orenburg region discovered that several graves were desecrated. Vandals spray-painted on gravestones inscriptions with obscene language. Investigations are underway. Sources Police officers are investigating the fact of desecration of the burial place // Time 56. 2014. June 3.

In Yakutia, the head of a Muslim organization was involved in administrative responsibility for the distribution of literature recognized extremist. June 2, 2014 Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) announced the initiation of proceedings under Art. 20.29 Administrative Code of the Russian Federation (production and dissemination of extremist materials) in relation to the chairman of the local religious Muslim organizations.

We remind readers of some pages of the biography of Vasily Boyko-Veliky, who recently once again became the hero of the news. The Ruzskoe Moloko company made a loud statement, explaining to consumers, why is the barcode crossed out on the packaging of her products red cross, the so-called Andreevsky.