A case has been sent to the Oktyabrsky District Court of Izhevsk regarding the posting of anti-Christian statements and caricatures of Jesus Christ on the Internet. 15 January 2015, the prosecutor's office of Udmurtia announced the transfer of the criminal case to the court about online placement Internet cartoons of Jesus Christ. Criminal the case was initiated under Part 1 of Art.

In Moscow, a vandal was detained for writing obscene symbols on a mosque building. January 15, 2015 as part of a criminal investigation in the case of desecration of a mosque on Poklonnaya Gora. A 28-year-old man was detained According to journalists, for several years now he has been registered in the psycho-neurological dispensary.

In St. Petersburg's Rozhdestvensky Square, despite public protests, a church will be built. On January 15, 2015, it became known that, despite numerous public protests , the Service of the State of construction supervision and expertise of St. Petersburg issued a permit to the local diocese for the construction of the Church of the Nativity on the Sands. Recall that we are talking about the construction of a temple in Rozhdestvensky square on 6th Sovetskaya street.

Saratov hosted a round table "New legislative requirements in the field of freedom of conscience and activities of religious associations: problems of law enforcement. Secularism of the state and the realization of the rights of believers”, organized by the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Volga region together with the SOVA Center.

In Moscow, Muslims who called for protests against caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad beat up a parishioner of the cathedral mosque, who is responsible for order in the building. On January 14, 2015, a parishioner of the cathedral church was beaten in Moscow. mosques, which prevented a group of Muslim provocateurs from breaking through to microphone.

The following is our review of the primary and most representative events pertaining to misuse of Russia’s anti-extremist legislation in November-December 2014. Lawmaking In November, the president signed a law banning symbols of organizations, which collaborated with the Nazis during World War II (see our previous review ). We believe that this law is redundant and poorly written, and its use can lead to inappropriate persecution.

On December 30, 2014, a court in Novosibirsk sentenced two neo-Nazis V. Sapronov and I. Saltykov, who beat and threw a native of Armenia onto the rails, to conditional terms of imprisonment. On December 30, 2014, the Pervomaisky District Court of Novosibirsk issued a verdict in the case of an attack on a native of Armenia on the platform of the Matveevka platform April 9, 2014. V. Sapronov and I. Saltykov were in the dock, who were charged with p. "b" part 2 of Art.

In January 2015 in the Kurgan region were recognized as extremist neo-Nazi videos "Appeal of skinheads to the Russian nation" and "I am Russian". In January 2015, the Prosecutor's Office of the Kurgan Region reported that filed a lawsuit with a demand to recognize two neo-Nazi organizations as extremist video "Appeal of skinheads to the Russian nation" and "I am Russian". Both videos reportedly contained calls for racist violence and overthrow of the current government in Russia.

On January 14, 2015, in Surgut, the court terminated the criminal prosecution in the case of D. Korolev for anti-Semitic photos and videos on the VKontakte network. January 14, 2015 The Surgut City Court of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug considered the criminal case against D. Korolev. Recall that D.

Navalny disputes the blocking of his LiveJournal at the ECtHR. On January 15, 2015, it became known that Alexei Navalny appealed to the European Court of Human Rights with a complaint about the blocking of his blog in LiveJournal. Recall that Roskomnadzor blocked Navalny's blog by order Prosecutor General's Office (i.e., according to Lugovoy's law ) March 13, 2014.

One of the Hizb ut-Tahrir members was taken into custody in Samara. January 14, 2015 year in Samara detained a Muslim suspected of belonging to Hizb ut-Tahrir. Regarding him a criminal case was initiated under Part 1 of Art. 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public calls for terrorism) and Part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (participation in activities of an extremist organization).