A television report about the Baptist Church aired on Channel Five. pastor who was denied entry to Russia was outraged by the Russian Union of Evangelical Baptist Christians. February 7, 2016 Russian Union of Evangelical Christian Baptists issued an official statement in connection with the release of 1 February, the report of the federal "Channel Five" "Agents in cassocks." Authors TV report accused Baptist Church Elder Shay Fountain (Billy Shay) of that he is an American spy.

January 25, 2016 in the city Seversk, Tomsk region, the court fined a local resident who published videos with banned racist songs in social network. January 25, 2016 in the city of Seversk, Tomsk region, the court considered an administrative case under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (distribution of prohibited materials).

On February 5, 2016, the Federal List was updated again extremist materials. Items were added to it. 3274 - 3278. List filled up the materials of Nazi skinheads and Muslim militants, Russophobic images and brochure "True Orthodox Church centralized religious organization. Update of the Federal List of Extremist Materials of 5 February 2016 3274.

In Ulyanovsk, the prosecutor's office made a submission to the acting. head of one of the local colonies and filed an administrative case against the institution under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. 8 February 2016 the prosecutor's office of Ulyanovsk region reported that the prosecutor of Ulyanovsk submitted a request eliminate violations of the law on countering extremism against and about. head of IK-10 and filed in regarding the colony administrative case under Art.

On January 28, 2016, in Tula, a court declared extremist xenophobic images from a racist group on VKontakte. On January 28, 2016, the Soviet District Court of Tula considered lawsuit to declare as extremist images found in an open group under titled "Russia for Russians. Down with foreign scum" on the social network "VKontakte". Images reportedly call for racist violence over immigrants from the Caucasus and Central Asia, Jews and Muslims.

The Constitutional Court dismissed the Jehovah's Witnesses' complaint about the ban mechanism sites for extremism November 13, 2015 Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of New York (the U.S.-registered head office of Jehovah's Witnesses) filed a The Constitutional Court of Russia appealed against the provisions of the federal laws "On combating extremist activity" (No. 114-FZ) and "On information, information technologies and information protection" (No. 149-FZ).

The following is our review of racismand xenophobia in Russiaduring January 2016. The data we report are collected in the course of Sova Center’sdaily monitoring activities. We are aware of at least three people targetedin racist and xenophobic attacks in January 2016. In Moscow, a group of young men beat a nativeAzerbaijani in a train bound for Aprelevka from the Kievsky railway station.