The head of the analytical department of the expert-legal department of the office of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation proposed complicating the procedure for registering religious groups and " developing amendments to the law on counteracting the activities of totalitarian destructive cults ." On December 8, 2015, Sergei Lobyrev, head of the analytical department of the legal expert department of the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian

The head of the Union of Orthodox Citizens is convinced that the Dream Island amusement park promotes demonism and proposes to place heroes of Russian folklore and saints instead of Dracula. On December 9, 2015, the Union of Orthodox Citizens circulated a statement in the media protesting against the construction of the Dream Island amusement park in Moscow. The park is planned to be built in Moscow in the Nagatinskaya floodplain in 2018.

In Volgograd, 31-year-old Sergei Kravtsov was fined a thousand rubles for hosting own page "VKontakte" of audio and video files included in the federal list of extremist materials. On December 9, 2015, the press service of the border department of the FSB of Russia in the Volgograd region reported that 31-year-old Sergey Kravtsov was fined Art. 20.29 (dissemination of extremist materials) of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation.

On December 9, 2015, Dmitry Demushkin was detained in Moscow as part of an investigation into the case of posting articles on a social network. He was released on bail. On December 9, 2015, the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the city of Moscow announced that the investigation of the criminal case against one of the leaders of the Russian Association, Dmitry Demushkin, was ongoing.

On December 9, 2015, a criminal case was initiated in the Omsk region against a 22-year-old resident of the city of Kalachinsk for posting xenophobic photos on a social network. On December 9, 2015, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation and the Omsk Region initiated a criminal case against a 22-year-old resident of the city of Kalachinsk, Omsk Region, suspected under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred or enmity).

On December 9, 2015, a resident of the Lazarevsky district in Sochi was fined for posting extremist materials on the Internet. On December 9, 2015, the prosecutor's office of the city of Sochi announced that, during an inspection, on a page in one of the social networks, material recognized as extremist by the decision of the Leninsky District Court of the city of Tyumen.

On December 8, 2015, in the Krasnoflotsky district of the city of Khabarovsk, a local resident was sentenced to correctional labor for posting an anti-Caucasian video on the Internet. On December 8, 2015, the Krasnoflotsky District Court of the city of Khabarovsk passed a sentence against a resident (born in 1987). He was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred and enmity).

Moscow Helsinki Group and SOVA Center for Information and Analysis published report " Life Without Rights. The Plight of Ahiska Turks in Southern Russia in 2015 ". Thisreport summarizes the results ofa research carried out in southernRussia in April through August2015 by a team of researchersfrom the MHG andthe SOVA.

We publish an article by Doctor of Philosophy sciences, professor, member of the expert council of the State Duma Committee on public associations and religious organizations of Mikhail Shakhov on the ratio internal regulations of religious organizations and Russian legislation. According to Art. 15 of the Federal Law "On freedom of conscience and religious associations”, “1.

On December 9, 2015, a criminal case was opened in the Kemerovo region for distributing xenophobic materials on the Internet. On December 9, 2015, the Kemerovo District Department on the transport of the West Siberian SUT of the Investigative Committee of Russia initiated a criminal case against a local resident under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred).