In July 2015, in Kazan, vandals left inscriptions "aimed at inciting hatred and enmity, as well as humiliating human dignity on the basis of religion." In July 2015, in Kazan, on the embankment of Lake Kaban, near one of the houses on Tatarstan Street, unknown vandals painted inscriptions " aimed at inciting hatred and enmity, as well as humiliating human dignity on the basis of attitude to religion ." Similar inscriptions were found on the wall of one of the houses on Shchapova Street.

We are publishing an analytical note by Alexander Verkhovsky, prepared for the Public Verdict Foundation on the eve of the public lecture “Likes, shares and tweets. What is anti-extremist legislation and how not to violate it,” which took place on July 14, 2015.

In July 2015, a local resident was fined in Kaluga for the songs of the Kolovrat group on the VKontakte network. In July 2015, the Kaluga District Court Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (production and distribution of extremist materials) fined a local resident.

In July 2015, a court in Tomsk sentenced a man for desecrating a monument to Vladimir Lenin in the village of Maryakovsky Zaton near Tomsk for a year of restriction of freedom. In July 2015, the Magistrate's Court of the Tomsk Judicial District of the Tomsk Region issued a sentence under Art. 214 of the Criminal Code (desecration of structures, committed for the motive of political, ideological hatred and enmity).

In early July, a young man burst into a Perm madrasah shouting “Allah is great” and damaged two doors. According to police, he was under the influence of drugs. On July 20, 2015 it became known that on July 5, 2015 in Perm, a young man who was in a state of drug intoxication, damaged two entrance doors in the madrasah.

July 17, 2015 in Ufa at the match between the teams "Ufa" - "Spartak" (Moscow) fans allowed themselves insulting shouts at the football player from Ghana by Emmanuel Frimpong. Emmanuel Frimpong responded with an obscene gesture. For this, he received a red card and was sent off. The International Football Federation said it would look into the circumstances of the incident. AmFIFA requested all information from the RFU in connection with with an incident.

One of the members of Hizb ut-Tahrir was arrested in Samara. Extremist literature and weapons were found in his house. On July 21, 2015 it became known that in Samara 44-year-old Muslim F. Gaynutdinov was arrested, in whose house a weapon was found. In connection with the preaching of the ideas of Hizb ut-Tahrir and the distribution of extremist literature against him in May 2015 was initiated a criminal case according to part 1 of Art.

In Krymsk, police disrupted a congress of Jehovah's Witnesses. The Cossacks who came with them de-energized the stadium where the event was held, and then threw stones at the believers. On July 21, 2015, it became known that in Krymsk police officers and Cossacks disrupted a three-day congress of Jehovah's Witnesses. Event was held on July 10, 11 and 12 at the stadium in Krymsk. It was attended believers from Krymsk, Anapa, Gelendzhik and Novorossiysk.

On July 17, 2015, a court in Ivanovo fined a young man 2,000 rubles for Timur Mutsuraev's songs on a social network. On July 17, 2015, the Frunzensky District Court brought Ivanov to administrative responsibility under article 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (distribution of materials of an extremist nature) of a 21-year-old local resident. A fine was imposed on in the amount of 2,000 rubles.

SOVA Center Opposes Recognition as a Political Prisoner Alexandra Belova. Director of the Institute of Human Rights Valentin objects to us Gefter. I agree that the distinction between the criminally punishable and the simply reprehensible is strongly necessary - not only for the state, but also for society. Especially in connection with politically motivated prosecutions of people receiving considerable terms of pre-trial or “by sentence” imprisonment.

On July 20, 2015, the Federal List of Extremist Materials was updated again. Items 2895-2903 were added to it. The list was supplemented by xenophobic videos from the VKontakte social network, poems by Ilya Maslov and Alexander Kharchikov, books by the Algoritm publishing house, articles from the Express Kamchatka website, the Jehovah's Witnesses website, and Muslim materials. Update of the Federal List of Extremist Materials dated July 20, 2015: 2895.

We are publishing an analytical note by Alexander Verkhovsky, prepared for the Public Verdict Foundation on the eve of the public lecture “Likes, shares and tweets. What is anti-extremist legislation and how not to violate it,” which took place on July 14, 2015.

We present an overview of problems in the field of freedom of conscience in Russia in April - June 2015. The review was compiled by Olga Sibireva based on the materials of the daily monitoring of the SOVA Center.