The case of two residents of the Kirov region accused of insulting religious feelings, is referred to the court. The investigation believes that they hung a scarecrow on a bow cross. On April 15, 2016, the prosecutor's office of the Kirov region announced approval of the indictment against two residents of the city of Sosnovka Vyatskopolyansky district, accused under Part 1 of Art.

The Stavropol prosecutor's office issued a warning to the local community of Jehovah's Witnesses for possession of banned brochures. April 18, 2016 year, the Stavropol prosecutor's office reported that issued a warning about the inadmissibility extremist activities of the local religious organization Witnesses Jehovah of Russia "Central Stavropol".

In March 2016, a court in Vladimir declared several ultra-right and Islamist materials from the Internet as extremist. March 2016 The Oktyabrsky District Court of Vladimir considered the claim of the prosecutor's office for recognition extremist of a range of far-right and Islamist materials from the Internet. It is reported that it is community materials "Popeye Mosh Crew" (group straight edge nationalists), the xWhite Brothersx community, the O Umma!

April 16, 2016 Program Coordinator of the Jewish Community Center of St. Petersburg Leokadiya Frenkel reported that she witnessed an attack on a worker from Uzbekistan. According to her Facebook post, the attack happened not far from Nevsky Prospekt, two drunk people took part in it fans of FC Zenit. Young people attacked a worker for no apparent reason, repairing the porch and beat him. His friend and fans came to the aid of the victim ran away. Leokadiya Frenkel went to the police.

Alexander Bastrykin plans to implement the "interesting" Chinese experience in introducing censorship, confiscation of property for extremism, the fight against electronic money, and much more. 18 April 2016 Kommersant published the chairman's text Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexandra Bastrykin on the fight against extremism and terrorism in Russia.

Here we publish comments by the authors of "Sova" devoted to the problems of the relationship between religion, society and the state, published on other sites. Comments from 2015 can be viewed here , 2014 - here . Earlier ones - in the "Publications" section. Comments are listed in reverse chronological order: The Court of the Jewish Autonomous Region has recognized Jehovah's Witnesses as extremists and banned them . Commentary by O. Sibireva // Far East. 2016. October 12.

On April 18, 2016, a 29-year-old anti-fascist was wounded in a trolleybus in Novosibirsk. On April 18, 2016 in Novosibirsk, a group of 10 shaven-headed young people broke into a trolleybus for 29 year old passenger. One of the attackers, Timothy Vil, caught up with the victim and wounded the young man with a knife in the buttock and shin. After the attackers jumped out of the trolleybus into the street.

The head of Pyatigorsk Leonid Travnev opposed construction of a crematorium, referring to the fact that he is a "believer". April 14, 2016 at a meeting of the town planning council of the Stavropol edge, the question of building a crematorium in Pyatigorsk was considered. Mayor of Leo Travnev refused to agree on the construction, motivating this decision with his religious views. “I am a believer, so we will not have cremation,” he said.

Roskomnadzor demanded that the SOVA Center remove a reference guide about the ultra-right and their symbols from the pages of the site The SOVA Center, in order to avoid blocking, was forced to remove from the pages of its website the Russian adaptation of the book by Swedish researcher Håkan Gestrin, “The Far Right and Their Symbolism.” On March 15, 2016, the SOVA Center received two letters from Roskomnadzor, which reported that two pages of the site contain illegal information and must be