Biblical scholar, leading researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Andrei Desnitsky, commented for the SOVA Center on the decision to include theology in the list of scientific disciplines. This decision was a kind of compromise result of a rather long struggle. The Russian Orthodox Church has long wanted to equate intra-church degrees in theology with scientific degrees in order to give some weight and significance to their own theological education.

On January 20, 2015, it became known that the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation had completed the drafting of amendments to the law “On freedom of conscience and religious associations” regulating the procedure for inspections of religious organizations. After consultations with experts and representatives of religious organizations, some provisions of this bill have been relaxed.

At the end of January 2015, in the Kirov region, a criminal case was initiated against a resident of the city of Slobodskaya for anti-Caucasian drawings on a social network. At the end of January 2015, the Investigative Committee for the Kirov Region initiated a criminal case against an 18-year-old resident of the city of Slobodskaya under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred or enmity).

On January 30, 2015, a court in Perm recognized Roman Yushkov’s article “Hysteria in Pugachev’s style” as extremist material. On January 30, 2015, the Motovilikha Court of Perm satisfied the prosecutor’s office’s claim to recognize Roman Yushkov’s article “Hysteria in Pugachev’s style,” published on the pages of the regional newspaper “Zvezda,” as extremist material.

At the end of January 2015, nationalist activist Oksana (Völva) Borisova was sentenced to a day of arrest for violating the procedure for holding mass events. The reason for administrative prosecution was the information posted on her page on the social network VKontakte about the gathering in Mineralnye Vody. On January 30, 2015, the Nevsky District Court of St. Petersburg found the well-known nationalist activist Oksana (Völva) Borisova guilty under Art.

In April 2016, in Pskov, the investigation of the case under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code against the local nationalist Georgy Pavlov (Gosha Arijets). In early February 2015, it became known that a criminal case had been opened in Pskov under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred) against local activist Georgiy Pavlov (Gosha Ariiets).

In Mari El, Kirill Kirillov was fined for the song "Mongol Shuudan" "Beat the Jews - save Russia!" in the social network. Medvedevsky District Court of the Republic of Mari El considered an administrative case in regarding Kirill Kirillov, a 23-year-old resident of the village of Kuznetsovo.

At the end of January 2015, a student of Novgorod State University, a citizen of Morocco, was fined in Novgorod for distributing extremist materials. The reference to the book by Elmir Kuliyev "On the way to the Koran" was recognized as an offense. At the end of January 2015, the Novgorod District Court Novgorod region recognized a student of Novgorod State University Nabulsi Mehdi, a citizen Morocco, guilty under Art.

"Crimes of an extremist nature" represent a wide range of acts from murders for one reason or another hatred to attempt to continue activities banned for extremism organizations. This article has attempted to list those who, by According to the SOVA Center, he is now deprived of liberty by sentence for acts not related to violent and other general criminal (that is, not actually "extremist") crimes. Previous we published such a list on December 24, 2013.

The punishment for those convicted in the Chelyabinsk case of Hizb ut-Tahrir has been mitigated. On February 2, 2015, the Supreme Court of Russia commuted the sentence of the members of the Chelyabinsk branch of Hizb ut-Tahrir. Rinat Galiullin, Marat Bazarbaev, Rushat Valiev, Rinat Idelbaev and Vadim Nasyrov were each sentenced to five years in prison.

The Krasnodar Regional Court recognized the decision on the fine for joint reading of the Bible in a cafe in Sochi is legal. On January 28, 2015, the Krasnodar Regional Court upheld decision of the Khostinsky district court of Sochi, which fined Alexei Kolyasnikov assembly believers and reading the Bible in a cafe specially rented for this purpose.

The FSB for the Chuvash Republic opened a case on public calls to carry out extremist activities against RPR-PARNAS activist Dmitry Semenov. He is charged with reposting a demotivator on the VKontakte social network. At the end of January 2015, it became known about the criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremist activity) in relation to the Chuvash RPR-PARNAS activist Dmitry Semenov.