The Moscow authorities have allocated 82.4 million rubles for the restoration of the Church of St. John the Evangelist near Elm. The temple is a cultural heritage site. On April 5, 2016, it became known that the Moscow Department of Competition Policy announced a competition for the restoration of the Church of St. John the Evangelist near Elm. The contract value is 82.4 million rubles.

In April 2016, a local resident in Kostroma was sentenced to two years in prison for singing a song inciting violence. In April 2016, the court passed a sentence on the 30-year-old Kostromich under Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremist activities).

Nina Solovieva received ten days of arrest for publishing a video for Boris Sevastyanov's song "This, baby, is rashism" on social networks. 5 April 2016 Krasnodar LGBT activist Nina Solovieva was sentenced to ten days of administrative arrest under Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (propaganda or demonstration of Nazi symbols) for publication in social networks of a video for Boris Sevastyanov's song "This, baby, rashism".

April 3, 2016 at the entrance to Jewish cemetery in Petrozavodsk, a fascist swastika was discovered. April 3, 2016 in Petrozavodsk on the arch at the entrance to Jewish cemetery near St. Volna discovered two images of a swastika painted with spray paint. Local resident radio presenter Sergey Kontti took photos and published them in the Live Petrozavodsk community.

On April 2, 2016 SOVA Center received another an official letter from Google, in which the search engine informed us that at the request of unspecified persons, he is forced to remove some unspecified elements of their issuance on our site, related to the news of 2010, namely: “ In Comey sentenced in internet comment case .” As a reminder, earlier on March 22 and 27, our Center received similar letters regarding news in 2006 and 2008.

We we publish an overview of the main and most significant events in the field misuse of anti-extremist legislation in Russia in March 2016 of the year. Rulemaking IN end of March, member of the Federation Council Viktor Ozerov submitted to the State Duma bill on endowing regional prosecutors with powers to refer requirements to Roskomnadzor on the need blocking content on the internet by law Lugovoy" . Currently, this right is only the Attorney General.

Three Swedish missionaries were detained in Buryatia. They were fined for violating the border regime and expelled from the country. On April 5, 2016, it became known about the expulsion from Russia of three missionaries from Sweden. They were detained on March 11 at the entrance by car to a special protected area near the town of Kyakhta. The court found them guilty Part 1.1 of Art.

In April 2016, in Kanash, Chuvash Republic, a local resident was sentenced to corrective labor for xenophobic materials in a group he created on a social network. In April 2016, the Kanashsky District Court of Chuvashia sentenced a 21-year-old local resident. He was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred or enmity). He was sentenced to 4 months of corrective labor.

At the beginning of April 2016, the Volgograd Prosecutor's Office for Supervision of Compliance with Laws in Correctional Institutions announced that it had found a tattoo with a swastika on a prisoner. The prosecutor's office sent a submission to the leadership of the colony about the inadmissibility of the public display of Nazi symbols. In a relationship of the convicted person, proceedings were initiated in the case of an administrative offense for public display Nazi symbols.

On March 29, 2016, the prosecutor's office of the city of Tula opened an administrative case against the mother of a teenager who posted a swastika on a social network. On March 29, 2016, the prosecutor's office of the city of Tula made a decision to initiate a case against administrative offense h. 1 Article.

Activist Pyotr Lyubchenkov, against whom a criminal case has been initiated for calls for separatism, may be extradited to Russia. 5 April 2016, it became known that the Kuban activist, psychologist Pyotr Lyubchenkov, regarding which was initiated in Krasnodar criminal case under Part 2 of Art. 280.1 CC (public calls for violation of territorial integrity of the Russian Federation), threatens extradition from Ukraine.

As part of the criminal case on the establishment of the Aum Shinrikyo branch searches are being carried out in Moscow and St. Petersburg. On April 5, 2016, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation announced initiation of a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 239 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (creation religious or public association whose activities are associated with violence against citizens or other harm to their health).

Leading researcher of the social sector anthropology of the Institute for Problems of the Development of the North SB RAS Vera Klyueva and lawyer Evgeny Shestakov prepared an overview of the confessional situation for the SOVA Center in the Tyumen region in 2015. Quantitative characteristics religious space of the region When analyzing confessional situation in the Tyumen region, it is necessary to take into account the following nuances.