We bring to the attention of readers a commentary by Alexander Verkhovsky, dedicated to the peculiarities of the application of Art. 280.1 of the Criminal Code, given by him in the article "Separatists by vocation" on the website "Grani.ru". Art. 280.1 is a political invention: there was no legal sense in creating a new article of the Criminal Code. And before there were criminal cases about calls for secession of some parts of Russia. They were investigated under Art.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recognized the sufficient period of pre-trial proceedings and trial against a member of the neo-Nazi group NS / WP Nevograd Yevgeny Koryabkin. A member of the St. Petersburg neo-Nazi group NS / WP "Nevograd" failed to receive compensation for delaying the consideration of the criminal case. This decision was made by the Supreme Court of Russia in September 2015. 17-year-old Yevgeny Koryabkin was detained on February 19, 2010.

The owner of the Yaroslavsky Vernissage shopping center was fined for the fact that the Wi-Fi operating in the food court of the establishment provided access to prohibited sites. On September 15, 2015, it became known that in Yaroslavl, under Art.

In connection with the attack on the exhibition of Soviet sculptures in Manege, a criminal case has been opened for the destruction or damage of cultural property. On September 14, 2015, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow opened a criminal case into the destruction of the exhibition “Sculptures We Don’t See” in Manege. The case was initiated under Art. 243 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (destruction or damage to cultural property).

On September 15, 2015, in the Arctic, a prisoner was added a year in a colony for calling on other prisoners to join the organization "Spiritual and tribal state Rus". On September 15, 2015, the Kola District Court of the Murmansk Region passed a sentence on the previously convicted Viktor Vasiliev for calling on the prisoners of the local colony to join the organization "Spiritual and tribal state Rus".

Krasnodar opposition activist Sergei Titarenko was found guilty of public calls for extremism and sentenced to a fine of 100 thousand rubles. On September 15, 2015, it became known that opposition activist Sergei Titarenko was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremist activities) and was sentenced to a fine of 100 thousand rubles.

On September 15, 2015, the prosecutor's office of the Ponomarevsky district of the Orenburg region sent a criminal case to court against the administrator of a xenophobic group on a social network for inciting violence. On September 15, 2015, the prosecutor's office of the Ponomarevsky district approved the indictment in a criminal case against an 18-year-old local resident. He is charged under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred and enmity).

Candidate of Historical Sciences, author of the book “The Russian Orthodox Church: Current State and Current Problems” (Moscow, 2004) Nikolai Mitrokhin commented for the SOVA Center on the initiation of a criminal case into an attack on an exhibition in Manege and the sentencing of an activist of “God’s Will”, one of the participants in the pogrom. The group “God's Will” has internal dynamics in development.

In Cherkessk, an article from the newspaper “Top Secret”, which talks about an internal memo by the KGB chairman about the situation in Karachay-Cherkessia in 1980, has been recognized as extremist material.

In Naberezhnye Chelny, the chairman of the Tatar Public Center, Rafis Kashapov, was sentenced under Art. 280.1 and 282 of the Criminal Code to three years in prison. September 15, 2015 Naberezhnye Chelny City the court found the chairman of the Tatar Public Center Rafis Kashapov guilty under Part 1 Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred or enmity) and Part 2 of Art.

On September 15, 2015, Ruslan Fedorov was convicted in Novosibirsk for inciting extremism on the VKontakte network. On September 15, 2015, the Central District Court of Novosibirsk delivered a verdict in a criminal case against 22-year-old Ruslan Fedorov. He was found guilty under Part 2 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremist activity) and Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred).

In September 2015, a criminal case was brought to court in Ulyanovsk for publications on the VKontakte social network. In September 2015, the prosecutor's office of the Zasviyazhsky district of the city of Ulyanovsk approved the indictment in a criminal case under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (incitement of ethnic hatred) against Aleksey Anchikov, a student at the Internet Technology Center.

In Moscow, another participant in the pogrom in Manege was found guilty of petty hooliganism. The court sentenced him to five days of arrest. On September 15, 2015, the Tverskoy Court of Moscow found Georgy Soldatov, a member of the “God’s Will” movement, guilty under Art. 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (petty hooliganism) and sentenced to five days of arrest.