In September 2015, a court in Omsk sentenced to 320 hours of compulsory labor for a 24-year-old local resident publishing several xenophobic materials on the social network. In September 2015 in Omsk was issued verdict in the case of inciting ethnic hatred (Part 1, Article 282 of the Criminal Code).

From September 21 to October 2, 2015, the annual OSCE conference takes place in Warsaw . September 29, expert of the Information and Analytical Center "SOVA" spoke at the working session “Combating hate crimes hatred and ensuring effective protection against discrimination II”. We publish the text of the submitted statement and our recommendations. Dear Madam Moderator, Dear Participants conferences!

FSB officers detained two alleged members of the Islamic State. The Lefortovo Court of Moscow authorized their arrest until 23 November. September 23, 2015 Lefortovsky a Moscow court authorized the arrest for 2 months of Muslims Kerim Khatiev and Akhmed Amirkhanov. Men were detained by FSB officers in the arrivals hall of international flights at Sheremetyevo Airport.

In September 2015 year in Orel, the court fined the leader of the well-known rock band Corrosion for 150 thousand metal" by Sergei (Spider) Troitsky. The reason for the initiation of the case was that the musician during a concert in Orel in 2013 performed a song recognized extremist. In September 2015, a court in Orel ruled in a case against the leader of the Metal Corrosion group, Sergei (Spider) Troitsky.

Under pressure from the FSB, the Muslims of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk canceled a planned protest action related to the ban on the collection of Koranic verses. On September 25, 2015, it became known that Muslims of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, under pressure from the FBS, canceled the protest action. The action called to draw the attention of the authorities to the banning of the collection of Qur'anic verses by the court of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, was scheduled for September 24, but did not take place.

SOVA Centerfor Information and Analysis took part in the 2015 OSCE Human DimensionImplementation Meeting in Warsaw (September 21 – October 2). Here we publishthe report made by the center’s speakers at sessions "Combating hate crimes and ensuring effective protection against discrimination II" on September 29, 2015. Ms. moderator, distinguished members of theconference!

In Khabarovsk, the prosecutor asked the court to sentence LGBT activist Andrey Marchenko, who is accused of public calls for extremist activities, to two years in a colony-settlement. On September 28, 2015, during the debate of the parties in the Industrialny District Court of Khabarovsk, the prosecution demanded to sentence LGBT activist Andrey Marchenko, accused under Part 1 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremist activity) to two years in a colony-settlement.

September 27, 2015 in the village of Zabrody, Kalacheevsky district Voronezh region, an attack was made on a 24-year-old girl working salesperson at the kiosk. It is reported that unidentified people shot in the direction of the outlet firearms and wounded her in the head. There were no attempts to rob the kiosk. A criminal case was initiated under Art. 30 of the Criminal Code and art. 105 UK (attempted murder). Initially, there was a version that the attack was committed by young people.

SOVA Centerfor Information and Analysis took part in the 2015 OSCE Human DimensionImplementation Meeting in Warsaw (September 21 – October 2). Here we publishthe report made by the center’s speakers at sessions " Combating hate crimes and ensuring effective protection against discrimination" on September 29, 2015. Ms. moderator, distinguished members of theconference! The problemof hate crimes is still a burning issue in Russia as well as in many OSCEcountries.

On September 20, 2015, an attack was made on three immigrants from Syria. It is reported that four young people approached the visitors on the street. men in black T-shirts with skulls and, after a little verbal skirmish, became beat them severely. As a result, one of the victims - Berona Majid Mahdi - died. from injuries sustained in the hospital, and two others were injured. Three of the four suspects have already been arrested.

29 September 2015, it became known that a resident of Kaluga was fined for "mockery at the institution of monasticism" and icons. The court found him guilty under Part 2 of Art. 5.26 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (deliberate public desecration of a religious or liturgical literature, objects of religious veneration, signs or emblems ideological symbols and paraphernalia) and sentenced to a fine of 30 thousand rubles.