In April 2015, a criminal investigation into a criminal case for xenophobic materials on the VKontakte network was completed in Cherepovets. On April 10, 2015, the Investigative Committee for the city of Cherepovets of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Vologda Region was informed that the investigation of the criminal case against a 27-year-old citizen of Cherepovets had been completed. He was charged under Part 1 of Art.

April 9, 2015 the Federal List was updated again extremist materials. Items were added to it. 2703-2706. List supplemented xenophobic materials on the Internet and a page of neo-pagan website of the Slavic radio Veda-Ra. On April 10, 2015, when the list was next updated , the materials from item 2706 were transferred to item 2718. Update of the Federal List of Extremist Materials dated April 9, 2015 2703. Videos posted by E.A. Temnokhudova.

April 7, 2015 in the city of Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk region, a sticker with a swastika, swords and a skull appeared on the city hall building. On the same day, photos of the building with the sticker were posted on the social network in the group Misanthropic Division. On suspicion of deeds by the police of Magnitogorsk, a 22-year-old local resident was detained. An administrative case has been opened under Art.

On April 10, 2015, in the Novosibirsk region, a resident of the village of Legostaevo desecrated a monument to the victims of the war. April 10, 2015 in the Novosibirsk region M. Shilov tore off from the monument to the fallen during the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 33 panels with the names of the dead soldiers and 9 tablets with the inscription "Eternal Glory to the soldiers who fell in the battles for the Motherland during the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945".

A resident of Bryansk is accused of publishing materials aimed at inciting religious hatred. April 10, 2015 it became known that in Bryansk in a criminal case was initiated against a 23-year-old resident of the city under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (actions aimed at inciting hatred or hostility, as well as humiliation of the dignity of a person or a group of persons on grounds of attitude to religion, committed in public).

In April 2015, in the Novgorod region, an administrative case was initiated against a local resident for distributing a song by the Kolovrat group on the Internet. In April 2015, the prosecutor's office of the Novgorod region announced the results of an anti-extremist check.

In early April 2015, a resident of the city of Vyatskiye Polyany was sentenced in the Kirov region for xenophobic materials online. "In contact with". In April 2015, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Kirov Region announced the sentencing of a 22-year-old resident of the city of Vyatskiye Polyany. He was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred or enmity).

The State Duma approved a bill simplifying the procedure for meetings prisoners with clergy of registered religious organizations. On April 10, 2015, the State Duma adopted in the second and the third reading of the draft amendments to the Penitentiary Code, allowing prisoners to meet in person with priests in prisons. The new law fixes in the PEC the right of prisoners to meet with the clergy without limitation of the number, up to two hours each.

The Ministry of Culture allocated for the restoration of the Novgorod churches of the XII century 15 million rubles. On April 9, 2015 it became known that the Ministry of Culture The Russian Federation allocated 15 million rubles for the restoration of the 12th-century temple near Veliky Novgorod. Church of the Annunciation on Myachina is located on balance sheet of the Novgorod State Museum-Reserve. For these funds The building is expected to be completely renovated.

The prosecutor's office of St. Petersburg applied to the court with a request to ban the materials of the VKontakte group as offensive to the Orthodox. On April 10, 2015, the St. Petersburg prosecutor's office announced an audit of the Foundations of Orthodoxy community on VKontakte.

In April 2015, a criminal case was initiated in the Astrakhan region against a resident of the village of Nachalovo for making xenophobic comments. On April 10, 2015, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Astrakhan Region announced the initiation of a criminal case under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting ethnic hatred).

In April 2015, in Krasnoyarsk, on the fact of desecration of monuments of military glory on January 9, 2015, a case was initiated on inciting ethnic hatred. On April 10, 2015, the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Krasnoyarsk Territory was informed that a criminal case had been initiated against two people under Part 1 of Art.