In Kalmykia, a criminal case has been initiated against a prisoner in connection with the posting of a video inciting religious hatred on a social network. At the beginning of July 2015, in the Yashkul interdistrict SO of the Investigative Committee of the RF Investigative Committee for the Republic of Kalmykia, a criminal case was initiated against a convict serving a sentence in FKU IK-2 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Republic of Kazakhstan, under Part 1 of Art.

On July 6, 2015, a court in Tula recognized the public movement Tula Skins as an extremist organization. On July 6, 2015, the Sovetsky District Court of Tula considered a civil case on the suit of the Tula prosecutor to recognize the Tula Skins social movement as an extremist organization and ban its activities in the Tula region.

On June 29 - July 1, 2015, the BRICS Civil Forum was held in Moscow, timed to coincide with the BRICS summit. Several Russian working groups were formed for this forum. One of them is called “Harmonization of Interethnic Relations”, and Alexander Verkhovsky became its coordinator.

In Moscow, the case against Alexander Razumov for inciting national hatred and mercenarism was brought to court. In early July 2015, in Moscow, the case against Alexander Razumov, a member of the Ukrainian organization Right Sector, was brought to court. (Recall that in November 2014 the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recognized the "Right Sector" as an extremist organization).

On June 29 - July 1, 2015, the BRICS Civil Forum was held in Moscow , dedicated to the BRICS summit. Several Russian working groups. One of them is called "Harmonization of interethnic relations", Alexander Verkhovsky became its coordinator. In April-May, this working group prepared a position paper, which she entitled: "Formation of racial, ethnic and religious tolerance, elimination of discrimination, regulation of migration and integration migrants".

Three Kaliningrad activists intend to seek acquittal. On July 6, 2015, it became known that three Kaliningrad activists who hung the German flag on the FSB building appealed the verdict . Let us recall that on June 17, 2015, the Central District Court of Kaliningrad found Dmitry Fonarev, Oleg Savvin and Mikhail Feldman, who in March 2014 hung a German flag on the garage of the FSB Directorate for the Kaliningrad Region, guilty under Part 2 of Art.

A criminal case under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code against a resident of Novokuznetsk. On July 6, 2015 it became known that in Novokuznetsk to the Zavodskoy District Court a criminal case initiated on January 21, 2015 under Part 1 of Art. 2 tbsp. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (participation in the activities of an extremist organization) against a local a resident, a 38-year-old native of Kyrgyzstan, who has Russian citizenship.

Parishioners of a Moscow church, led by the chairman of the Patriarchal Commission for Family Issues, Protection of Motherhood and Childhood, Archpriest Dimitry Smirnov, broke onto the stage during a concert for the anniversary of the Silver Rain radio station and demanded that the volume be turned down. On July 4, 2015, parishioners of the Annunciation Church in Petrovsky Park in Moscow tried to disrupt a concert dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Silver Rain radio station.

*On the night of June 30 to July 1, 2015 in Lipetsk, vandals set fire to a wooden dressing room at a holy spring near the Holy Dormition Monastery. The prayer house and all 30 icons burned down. In addition, the attackers broke the Orthodox cross and left an inscription on the wall in front of the source.* On suspicion of committing a crime, the police detained a minor local resident and a 20-year-old resident of the Saratov region.

On July 6, 2015, the Federal List was updated again extremist materials. Items 2868 - 2885 were added to it. List replenished with videos "Format-18", the next songs of Timur Mutsuraev, stories by Yuri Petukhov, materials from the Muslim library, materials of Chechen separatists, videos of Caucasian militants. Update of the Federal List of Extremist Materials dated July 6, 2015 2868. Information posted on the web site nohchipress.info at the e-mail address: www.

The following is our review of racism and xenophobia in Russia during June 2015. The data we report are collected in the course of Sova Center’s daily monitoring activities. No fewer than three people were targeted in racist attacks this month, all of them in Moscow. Additionally, a few Moscow activists from the National Liberation Movement (NOD) organized an attack on participants in a picket demonstration. No fewer than three people were injured.

In June 2015, a criminal trial began in Moscow against Vadim Kozlovich for publishing a xenophobic article on the website of the NGO " People's Council Tekstilshchiki district. Kuzminskaya Prosecutor's Office of Moscow opened a criminal case against Vadim Kozlovich under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred). The case was initiated by the Kuzminsk prosecutor's office upon a request from the residents of the district.

A case has been opened against the Moscow Orthodox community for the illegal construction of a temple on Khodynskoye Field. Moscow authorities are demanding that construction be stopped. On July 2, 2015, it became known that in relation to the Moscow parish of St. Sergius of Radonezh, a case was initiated under Part 2 of Art. 8.18 Code of Administrative Offenses of Moscow. The case was initiated in connection with the illegal construction of a temple on Khodynskoye Field.

In early July 2015, vandals desecrated the Monument to the Narodnaya Volya in Lipetsk. At the beginning of July 2015 in Lipetsk, images of a swastika, the emblem of the SS, the rune "odal", "wolf hook", "tyur-runes" and the inscription "skins" appeared on the monument to the People's Will. Media reports that the monument is desecrated for the third time. Sources Skinheads painted the Monument to the Narodnaya Volya in Lipetsk // Most.tv. 2015. July 6.