April 13, 2016 the Federal List was updated again extremist materials. Items 3371 - 3380 were added to it. List enriched the materials of Nazi skinheads and Islamist militants on the Internet, and also letters from the association "Cathedral of the Free United Powers the spiritual and ancestral State of Rus'. Update of the Federal List of Extremist Materials April 13, 2016 3371. Video “Departure for Jihad in Syria | Shaykh Usman al-Khamis”, duration about 02 min. 22 sec.

April 14, 2016 the Federal List was updated again extremist materials. Items 3381 - 3390 were added to it. List replenished the materials of Nazi skinheads on the Internet, the book of Abd-ul-Kadim Zallum "Funds in the Caliphate State" and the site chechenews.com.

At the beginning of April 2016, a criminal case was initiated in Moscow against the leader of the RFO "Pamyat" Vladimir Ratnikov for xenophobic songs on the social network. On April 1, 2016, a search was carried out in Moscow at one of the leaders of the Russian Liberation Front (RFO) "Memory" Vladimir Ratnikov. A criminal case was initiated against Ratnikov under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred).

On April 13, 2016, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Kostroma Region announced that in 2016 it stopped 18 administrative offenses for the swastika and the publication of extremist materials. On April 13, 2016, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Kostroma Region reported that since the beginning of the year, police officers 18 offenses related to the demonstration of Nazi paraphernalia and the publication of prohibited materials on social networks were suppressed.

On April 13, 2016, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Kostroma Region announced that cases had been opened on administrative offenses for displaying Nazi symbols on social networks in the Krasnoselsky and Makaryevsky districts. On April 13, 2016, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Kostroma Region announced that cases of administrative offenses under Part 1 of Art.

April 12, 2016 the Federal List was updated again extremist materials. Items were added to it. 3368 - 3370. List replenished the materials of Nazi skinheads on the Internet and Islamist video. Update of the Federal List of Extremist Materials dated April 12, 2016 3368. Video “Lyosha Zakon - Become a bandit”, posted on the Internet page http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6Q4to6UTZA (decision of the Zavodskoy District Court of the city of Orel dated 01/28/2016);3369.

In December 2015, a court in Grozny declared a poem condemning Russia's foreign policy to be extremist. On April 15, 2016, from the next update of the Federal List of Extremist Materials, it became known that on December 22, 2015, the Zavodskoy District Court of Grozny recognized the altered poem "Do Russians Want War?" as extremist.

On April 15, 2016, the Supreme Court overturned the decision of the Tyumen Regional Court to recognize the local organization of Jehovah's Witnesses as extremist. On April 15, 2016, the Supreme Court of Russia considered an appeal against the decision of the Tyumen Regional Court to liquidate the local religious organization of Jehovah's Witnesses in the city of Tyumen as extremist. The complaint was satisfied, the Supreme Court decided to cancel the decision to liquidate the community.

The State Duma Committee on Information Policy recommended rejecting the bill banning mention of the nationality and religious affiliation of terrorists in the media. On April 15, 2016, the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications, determined to be responsible and relevant when considering the bill on the ban on mentioning the nationality and religious affiliation of terrorists in the media, recommended rejecting it in the first reading.

On April 15, 2016, in the Nizhny Novgorod region in the Kanavinsky district, a criminal case was initiated for a xenophobic text on a social network. On April 15, 2016, a criminal case was initiated in the Nizhny Novgorod region against a 20-year-old resident of the region under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred and enmity).

The FSB believes that the Buryat nationalist Vladimir Khagdaev published on the Internet calls to violate the territorial integrity of Russia. On March 27, 2016, the FSB Department for the Republic of Buryatia opened a criminal case under Part 2 of Art.

In Orenburg, a sentence was passed under Art. 148 of the Criminal Code in relation to the teacher of the Orenburg State Medical University Sergey Lazarov, who in 2013 published the article "Evil Christ" on the Internet. The court imposed a fine of 35 thousand rubles on him.

April 13, 2016 became it is known that in the Orenburg region in relation to the imam of the local mosque initiated a criminal case under Art. 1 st. 243 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (destruction or damage to cultural heritage (monuments of history and culture) of the peoples of the Russian Federation included in Unified State Register of Cultural Heritage Objects) in connection with the restoration of the mosque building (XVIII century) without approved project.

In April 2016, in the Lipetsk region, a resident of Yelets was brought to administrative responsibility for publishing extremist materials on a social network. On April 15, 2016, the prosecutor's office of the Lipetsk region announced that a resident of the city of Yelets was brought to administrative responsibility under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (production and distribution of extremist materials).

The following is our review of the primary and most representative events in the misuse of anti-extremist legislation in Russia in March 2016. Lawmaking In late March, member of the Federation Council Viktor Ozerov introducedin the State Duma a bill authorizing regional prosecutors to submittheir requests for blocking online materials under “Lugovoy’sLaw”to Roskomnadzor. Currently, only the Office of the Prosecutor-Generalhas this mandate.