In September 2015 in the city Gorodovikovsk of the Republic of Kalmykia, the court fined a 24-year-old 1,000 rubles a native of the Stavropol Territory who published banned neo-Nazi songs group "Kolovrat". In September 2015 in the city of Gorodovikovsk of the Republic of Kalmykia an administrative case was initiated under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (distribution extremist materials).

In September 2015 in the city of Ulan-Ude of the Republic of Buryatia to The court sentenced a young man by surname to 2 years in a colony-settlement Guggenheimer, who posted racist videos on social media. In September 2015 in the city of Ulan-Ude of the Republic of Buryatia Zheleznodorozhny the district court delivered a verdict in the case of inciting ethnic hatred (Part 1 Art. 282 of the Criminal Code).

The court dismissed the case on the dissemination of extremist materials against Jehovah's Witnesses from Kotlas, Arkhangelsk Region: the books confiscated during the search are not banned. On September 10, 2015, it became known that the court of Kotlas Arkhangelsk region decided to terminate the proceedings under Art.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, appealed the court decision to ban the book “Prayer (Dua) to God: Its Purpose and Place in Islam.” On September 10, 2015, the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov announced an appeal filed against the decision of the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk court, which recognized the book “Prayer (Dua) to God: Its Purpose and Place in Islam” as extremist.

The head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, demands strict punishment for the judge and prosecutor of the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk court, who made a decision to ban the book “Prayer (dua) to God: its purpose and place in Islam” - a commentary on the Koranic text.

At the end of August 2015, the case was submitted to the court in Arkhangelsk under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code and art. 280 of the Criminal Code against 21-year-old local resident Alexander Subris, who published racist photos on the VKontakte network. At the end of August 2015, Arkhangelsk completed investigation of a criminal case on inciting ethnic hatred (part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code) and public calls for extremism (part 1 of article 280 of the Criminal Code).

In the Krasnodar Territory, the prosecutor's office demands that a photo of a justice of the peace and his wife in Nazi uniform be recognized as prohibited information.

On September 7, 2015, in Moscow, the court decided to return for additional investigation the criminal case against Vadim Kozlovich for publishing a xenophobic article on the website of the public organization People 's Council of the Tekstilshchiki district. Recall that earlier the Kuzminskaya Prosecutor's Office of Moscow opened a criminal case against Vadim Kozlovich under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred).

Jehovah's Witnesses in the Kamchatka Territory were banned from distributing religious literature in Vilyuchinsk. The head of the community was issued a warning about the inadmissibility of violating the law. On September 10, 2015, it became known that the prosecutor's office of Vilyuchinsk (Kamchatka Territory) issued to the head of the local Witnesses Jehovah's warning to Sergei Seleznev about the inadmissibility of violation extremist legislation.

The Tagansky District Court of Moscow fully acquitted four base jumpers in the case of an action on a high-rise building. Rufer Vladimir Podrezov was found guilty of hooliganism and vandalism motivated by political hatred and sentenced to a real term. September 10, 2015 Tagansky District Court of Moscow in full justified the base jumpers Anna Lepeshkina, Alexander Pogrebov, Aleksey Shirokozhukhov, Yevgeny Korotkov, accused under Part 2 of Art. 213 and according to part 2 of Art.

Representatives of the Duma Committee for Religious Organizations and the Public Chamber consider it necessary to introduce a moratorium on recognizing Holy Texts as extremist materials.

Due to the call to participate in a people's gathering against the elections, Roskomnadzor blocked the Voice of Kuban website and the Kuban, open your eyes group on the VKontakte social network under Lugovoi's law. On September 10, 2015 it became known that Roskomnadzor at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office blocked access to the website "Voice of Kuban" and group "Kuban, open your eyes"" in the social network "VKontakte".

In Yoshkar-Ola, an empty building belonging to the local diocese was damaged by fire. On September 10, 2015, a building caught fire in Yoshkar-Ola, belonged to the local diocese (Voznesenskaya St., 27b). fire area - 300 sq.m. The building was empty and was not used by the diocese. preliminary reason fire - arson. Sources In the capital of Mari El, the building of the Yoshkar-Ola diocese of the ROC MP burned down. New details of the state of emergency // Mariskaya Pravda. 2015. September 10.

This briefoverview focuses on major legislative initiatives and criminal lawenforcement statistics that pertain to combating extremism in thetime period, when the events in Ukraine have become a major factor inRussia’s internal life. However, this report covers only theaspects of legislation and law enforcement practice that we see asleading to human rights violations and excessive restrictions ofcivil liberties. Misuse ofanti-extremist legislation falls into two major categories.