From September 22 to October 3, 2014 in Warsaw takes place annual conference of the OSCE . October 1 expert Information and Analytical Center "SOVA" spoke at the working session "Basic Freedoms II". We publish the full text of the submitted statement. Dear Chairman, Dear Participants conferences! Our SOVA Center monitors numerous problems related to freedom of religion and belief, and we do not focus on certain religious minorities.

September 30, 2014 became there are several cases of manifestation of religious intolerance towards Jehovah's Witnesses. September 9, 2014 resident of Voronezh broke three stands with literature of Jehovah's Witnesses. The believers turned to a statement to the police. September 11, 2014 residents of Belgorod scattered the literature of Jehovah's Witnesses, trampled it underfoot, tore it up and threw it into urn. Similar incidents also occurred in Khabarovsk (August 23) and Chekhov (August 26).

Tatar writer, head of the Milli Mejlis of Tatarstan Fauziya Bayramova is being tried for inciting hatred. She is accused of posting texts on Facebook. On October 1, 2014, it became known about another criminal case against a Tatar writer and activist from Naberezhnye Chelny, the head of the organization Milli Mejlis (National Parliament) Fauzia Bayramova. She is accused under Part 1 of Art.

Members of the Public Chamber and the Human Rights Council are not ignored the conflict that erupted on September 26, 2014 in Moscow mosque on Bolshaya Tatarskaya. Maxim Shevchenko, member of the Human Rights Council under President of the Russian Federation, considers it necessary to create people's squads from among Muslims. The functions of such groups (100-200 people each) will include ensuring order during time of mass religious events.

December 30, 2013 The President signed the law on extrajudicial blocking sites with calls for extremist actions, riots and even to holding non-approved public events (known as "Lugovoy's law"). Access to this information should now be closed urgently, without holding judicial procedure, the decision to do so may accept only the Prosecutor General's Office. The Prosecutor General's Office is not obliged to inform the editors or site owners the reason for blocking.

We publish review of the main and most significant developments in the field of illegal enforcement of anti-extremist legislation in Russia in September 2014 of the year. Rulemaking In early September, it became known that the Ministry of Communications and Mass Communications has developed a bill amending the Code on administrative offenses. According to this bill, art.

1 October 2014 it became known that from the budget of the Republic of Buryatia was 35 million rubles were allocated for the needs of the traditional Buddhist sangha in Russia. This amount was spent over two years on the construction, renovation and restoration of religious buildings. In addition, for the development of a road project to Tamchinsky datsan was additionally allocated 12.4 million rubles.

On September 27, 2014, in St. Petersburg at the Petrovsky stadium, during the match of the 9th round of the Russian championship Zenit - Spartak, racist cries were heard from the Spartak tribune against the Zenit striker and the Brazilian national team Hulk (Zhivanildo Vieira de Souza). “ In the first half, I distinctly heard cries imitating monkeys addressed to me, and these were not single cries, but the chanting of a large group of people.

On October 1, 2014, a case was sent to court in Novosibirsk about an attack on a native of Armenia on the Matveevka platform in April 2014. On October 1, 2014, the Novosibirsk Transport Prosecutor approved an indictment in a criminal case against two unemployed men accused under paragraph "b" of Part 2 of Article 116 (beating motivated by national or religious hatred or enmity) and Part 2 of Art. 119 (threat to kill motivated by national or religious hatred or enmity) of the Criminal Code.

On October 1, 2014, a case was brought to court against a resident of the Baksansky district of the Kabardino-Balkar Republic for inciting extremist activities. On October 1, 2014, the Deputy Prosecutor of the KBR approved the indictment in a criminal case against a resident of the Baksan district. He is charged under Part 1 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremist activities).

On September 30, 2014, the scientific and practical conference "Religions of Russia in the Year of Culture" completed its work in St. Petersburg. Among the organizers is the North-Western Regional Center for Cultural and Religious Studies of the Leningrad State University. A. S. Pushkina, Scientific and Methodological Council for Religious Studies of the Knowledge Society, St.

On October 1, 2014, the trial began in the Sverdlovsk Regional Court in the case of a member of the Volkssturm group, 26-year-old Ilya Dorokhov, who was on the run until 2014, until he was detained by the Interior Ministry in St. Petersburg. On October 1, 2014, the Sverdlovsk Regional Court began considering a criminal case against 26-year-old Ilya Dorokhov. He is charged under Part 2 of Art. 282.1 of the Criminal Code (participation in an extremist community), p.p.

September 30, 2014 the Federal List was updated again extremist materials. Item 2450 was added to it - a film about the army of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Update of the Federal List of Extremist Materials dated September 30, 2014 Video "The Clash of Swords (Salil Savarim)" ( solution Mineralnye Vody City Court of the Stavropol Territory dated July 15, 2014). Video in Arabic with Russian subtitles access was revealed by the Mineralnye Vody Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office.

SOVA Centerfor Information and Analysis took part in the 2014 OSCE Human DimensionImplementation Meeting in Warsaw (September 22 – October 3). Here we publishthe report made by the center’s speakers at sessions "Fundamental Freedoms II" on October 1, 2014. Mr. Chairman and distinguishedmembers of the conference! Our Analytical Center«Sova» conducts monitoring of numerous problems related to the freedom ofconscience and religion.

In the Primorsky Territory, four songs by the Other Russia activist Igor Popov were recognized as extremist materials. On October 1, 2014, it became known that the Primorsky Regional the court upheld the decision of the Pervorechensky District Court of Vladivostok to recognize extremist materials of four songs authored by a member of the Other Russia" by Igor Popov, written as part of the project "Resurrected party member".