In July 2015, in St. Petersburg, the court sentenced to 2 years and 7 months imprisonment of far-right activist Maxim Kalinichenko, who was recognized guilty of creating the Russian Right Sector group on the VKontakte social network. In July 2015 in St. Petersburg was issued verdict in a criminal case against far-right activist Maxim Kalinichenko.

More than 2,000 copies of the Bible translated by Jehovah's Witnesses have been detained at the border with Finland. The book is being checked for extremism. July 16, 2015 Press Service of Jehovah's Witnesses spread a message that the Russian customs detained at the border with Finland 2016 copies of the Bible translated by Jehovah's Witnesses, intended for distribution among Russian citizens. Three copies of the Bible were seized for testing the subject of signs of extremism.

The Valaam Monastery is evicting residents from the building of the Winter Hotel. The building will house a cultural and educational center. The state is ready to finance the creation of the center, but is not ready to provide the evicted citizens with alternative living space. On June 30, 2015, it became known that by the decision of the Sortavala city court in March 2015, three residents of Valaam were deprived of their property rights and discharged from the premises of the Winter Hotel.

In Sochi, under Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, the car owner was fined for a sticker with an inscription, which was considered the symbol of a banned organization. July 15, 2015 year, the prosecutor's office of the Krasnodar Territory announced that, at the suit of the prosecutor's office Sochi was fined under Art.

We are publishing the abstracts of the speech by Alexander Verkhovsky, director of the SOVA Center , prepared for the Adelheim Readings on July 11, 2015 . Since A. Verkhovsky could not take part in the readings, only the abstracts were read out.

In July 2015, in Orel, the case was submitted to the court against a local resident who posted a xenophobic post on VKontakte. In July 2015 in Orel was completed investigation of a criminal case on inciting ethnic hatred (part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code). A local will soon be in the dock a resident who is accused of publishing on his website in April 2014 a page on a social network some kind of xenophobic video. Unfortunately, it's not clear which record is in question. reported.

The bill, which provides for tougher penalties for displaying extremist symbols, was rejected in the first reading. June 16, 2015 draft law No.

July 15, 2015 Supreme the court of the Komi Republic overturned the acquittal, which had previously been ruled by one of the district courts in the case of a local far-right activist Alexei Kozhemyakin, nicknamed Kolovrat. Recall that in 2013 against was initiated A. Kozhemyakin, a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred) and Part 2 of Art.

Krasnodar activist Yulia Usach was brought to justice under Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. On July 15, 2015, an administrative case under Art. 20.3 Administrative Code (propaganda and public display of Nazi symbols). The reason was that on the Mustache page on the VKontakte social network several cartoons and demotivators were posted in the public domain, on which featured a swastika. All images were satirical and not pursued the goal of promoting Nazism.

In July 2015, the Prosecutor's Office Republic of Altai reported that the criminal case against the deputy of the City Council Gorno-Altaisk from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Vadim Manzyrov for comments on the site "News of the Mining Altai”, was submitted to the court. Let us remind you that earlier in August last year, it was already reported that this case was sent to court consideration.

In July 2015 in the city of Alatyr, Chuvash Republic, the court sentenced to 1.5 years in prison a local resident who published in social network text with calls for violence. July 3, 2015 in the city of Alatyr, Chuvash Republic was a verdict was passed in the case of public calls for extremist activity (part 2 of article 280 of the Criminal Code).

Mufti Fatykh Garifullin became a defendant in a criminal case due to the publication of Koranic verses. On July 14, 2015 it became known that in Pervouralsk Sverdlovsk Region, a criminal case has been initiated (obviously, under Article 282 of the Criminal Code on inciting religious hatred) against Mufti Fatykh Garifullin, chief editor of the Pervouralsk newspaper "Truth".

In the Nizhny Novgorod court, consideration of the case on the illegal construction of a temple in the Sormovsky district began. The plaintiff submitted to the court more than 2,000 signatures of opponents of the construction. July 17, 2015 in the Sormovsky District Court Nizhny Novgorod began consideration of the claim NRPOO "Pilgrim" against local diocese. Nizhny Novgorod regional On June 23, 2015, a human rights NGO applied to the court demanding as illegal.

July 15, 2015 again The Federal List of Extremist Materials has been updated. It has been added pp.2892 - 2894. The list was supplemented by racist songs of the Kolovrat and KhorSS groups, as well as several photographs with captions. Update of the Federal List extremist materials dated July 15, 2015: 2892.

In July 2015, in the city of Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Region, a court sentenced members of Fedorovich's gang to terms ranging from 6 years to life. In July 2015 Sverdlovsky the regional court delivered a verdict in the case of the so-called " Fedorovich's gang ".