The editor-in-chief of Astrakhanskaya Pravda faces a fine under Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. January 27, 2016 year it became known that against the main editor of Astrakhanskaya Pravda, local party newspaper of the Communist Party, Alexandra Tokarev, an administrative case under Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (propaganda or displaying Nazi symbols). occasion served as a picture illustrating published in No.

On February 1, 2016 it became known that in the city Birobidzhan, Jewish Autonomous Region, a criminal case was initiated under Art. 280 of the Criminal Code in connection with the publication of the song "Niger" by the group "Metal Corrosion" on February 1, 2016, it became known that in the city Birobidzhan, Jewish Autonomous Region, a criminal case was initiated on public calls for extremism (part 2 of article 280 of the Criminal Code).

In January 2016, we are aware of at least three people affected by racist and xenophobically motivated attacks. IN Moscow in an electric train that ran from the Kievsky railway station to the station "Aprelevka", a was beaten native of Azerbaijan by a group of young people. And in the city of Alexandrov, Vladimir Region, two unidentified persons armed with a knife, attacked the parishioners of the Church of Evangelical Christians (Pentecostals) "Emmanuel".

On January 29, 2016, Patriarch Kirill made a report to the Council Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. The main part of his message concerned the support of traditional institutions - marriage, family, school. “ Today, the institution of the family requires special protection from the state , - said the patriarch.

28 January 2016 in the State Duma, within the framework of Parliamentary meetings, a round table was held on the topic “Improving legislation on religious organizations. Among others at the round table was made by the representative of the Federal Property Management Agency Sergey Anoprienko, who spoke about the situation with the transfer of religious organizations of religious property located in the treasury.

In the Moscow park "Torfyanka" Orthodox activists held an "anti-virus flash mob". January 30 2016 in the Moscow park "Torfyanka" Orthodox activists held another protest against the cessation of construction of the temple. After the prayer service at the place where the temple was supposed to be built, and now there is a tent of the defenders of the park, they lined up with a wall (with their backs to tent) and at the same time put on gauze bandages with a cross and the inscription “antivirus”.

28 January in the State Duma within the framework of Parliamentary meetings (“Christmas reading”) a round table was held on the topic “Improvement of legislation about religious organizations. We publish a report by Svetlana Solodovnik.

We we publish an overview of the main and most significant events in the field misuse of anti-extremist legislation in Russia in January 2016 of the year. Criminal the pursuit IN at the end of December 2015, it became known what's in Blagoveshchensk Amur Region under Part 1 of Art. 282.2 CC (organization of the organization's activities, banned for extremism) arrested a resident of the village of Ivanovka, a Muslim, Evgeniy Kim.

The Constitutional Court denied Jehovah's Witnesses who challenged certain provisions of Russian laws on combating extremist activity and on information. On November 13, 2015, the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York (the U.S.-registered head office of Jehovah's Witnesses) filed a complaint with the Russian Constitutional Court against the provisions of the federal laws "On Combating Extremist Activities" (No.

At the end of January 2016 in ZATO Ozersk, Chelyabinsk region, the case against two local residents who painted the facades of houses on two streets of the city with xenophobic graffiti. At the end of January 2016 in ZATO Ozersk, Chelyabinsk region, the investigation of the case on the initiation of national hatred (part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code).

At the end of January 2016 in the city of Novoshakhtinsk, Rostov region, a criminal case was initiated under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code against a local resident Born in 1986, who posted a xenophobic text on a social network. At the end of January 2016 in the city of Novoshakhtinsk, Rostov region, a criminal case was initiated under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (excitation national hatred).

Moscow City Duma deputy will defend children in the subway content filters Chairman of the Moscow City Duma Commission on Security Inna Svyatenko proposes for the sake of child protection at the legislative level restrict access to information, available through the free Wi-Fi network in the Moscow metro.