Nikolai Mitrokhin, a researcher at the Center for Eastern European Studies at the University of Bremen, commented for the SOVA Center on the proposals of representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Orthodox community, expressed as part of the discussion of the project “Fundamentals of State Cultural Policy.” This initiative is in line with attempts by the state and various ideological lobbying groups to limit freedom of expression and speech in Russia.

On September 18, 2014, a court in Tula recognized the photographs of blogger Dima Pukh as extremist materials. On September 18, 2014, the Privokzalny District Court of Tula considered a civil case on the application of the Prosecutor of the Privokzalny District of the city of Tula for recognition He recalled that on June 13, 2013, the Privokzalny District Court of the city of Tula sentenced under Part 1 of Art.

On September 24, 2014, the head of Roskomnadzor stated that the agency had blocked more than 600 websites " calling for extremism and riots ". The head of the department, Alexander Zharov, added that the blocking of sites is carried out promptly, after the Prosecutor General or his deputy make an appropriate decision. “We received about 100 such decisions from the Prosecutor General's Office.

Mosques in the villages of Industry and Belorechensky, the decision to demolish which were handed down in 2013 have not yet been demolished, but it is already known who will be demolish. At the end of September 2014, it became known that the Muslim the community of the village of Belorechensky near Kislovodsk could not find suitable lawyers to challenge the decisions of the Kislovodsk City and Stavropol regional courts for the demolition of the mosque.

The Church of Scientology in St. Petersburg was searched. Search was conducted in the case of one of the parishioners, suspected of embezzlement and translating them into the needs of the church. September 25, 2014 employees of the Department of Economic security and anti-corruption department of the Admiralty Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and operatives Center "E" searched the building of the Church of Scientology in St. Petersburg on the street. Rosenstein.

September 24, 2014 in the Kalininsky District Court of St. Petersburg began the trial of the St. Petersburg nationalist Nikolai Bondarik, accused of inciting national hatred. On September 24, 2014, the Kalininsky District Court of St. Petersburg held a preliminary hearing in the case of nationalist Nikolai Bondarik. Recall , N. Bondarik is accused of complicity in preparing a provocation on Eid al-Adha: two residents of St.

In September 2014, in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, a court recognized the video “Du1a for the Mujahideen” as extremist. In September 2014, the prosecutor's office of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic announced that it had found on the user's page under the nickname "IbrahimTebuev" a video "Du1a for the Mujahideen", "which, according to experts, has statements containing a public justification of terrorism, direct and indirect calls for the implementation of a terrorist activities".

On September 25, 2014, in the Perm Territory, users of the social network VKontakte were brought to administrative responsibility for distributing extremist materials. The Industrial District Court of the city of Perm considered two administrative cases initiated by the prosecutor of the Industrial District of the city of Perm against local residents. They were found guilty of committing an administrative offense under Art.

On September 24, 2014, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Belgorod ruled a sentence to a local resident for anti-Caucasian comments on the VKontakte social network. On September 24, 2014, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Belgorod ruled sentence to a local resident under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred, and also humiliation of dignity on the grounds of nationality, committed with using the media).

In North Ossetia, a site administrator was sentenced to an administrative fine for posting illegally banned religious texts - the 13th-century treatise Gardens of the Righteous and Elmir Kuliev's book On the Way to the Koran. On September 25, 2014, it became known that the Irafsky District Court of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania found guilty under Art.

At the end of September 2014 in Segezha (Republic of Karelia) a 46-year-old Internet user was fined for xenophobic comments on the Internet. On September 25, 2014, the Investigative Committee for the city of Segezha of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Karelia announced the sentencing of the 46-year-old owner of a company that manufactures air rifles, Eduard Gafarov. He was found guilty under Part 1 of Art.

September 22, 2014 in Ramenskoye (Moscow region) in a duel of the eighth round of the national championship "Torpedo" - "Dynamo" black Dynamo defender Christopher Samba refused to enter the field because of the hooting of Torpedo fans. September 22, 2014 in Ramenskoye (Moscow region) in the eighth round match of the national championship "Torpedo" - “Dynamo” fans of “Torpedo” hooted every movement of the black defender of “Dynamo” Christopher Samba.

September 24 2014, the Sakharov Center hosted a presentation of the book by the Owl Center “Russia - not Ukraine: modern accents of nationalism. All participants paid attention in one way or another to the question posed at the beginning of the discussions by Alexander Verkhovsky, director of the SOVA Center: in what way, in fact, the essential difference between Ukraine and Russia is in the aspect nationalism.