On April 25, 2016, it became known that in January 2016, 20 Muslims detained in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case in Bashkiria in February 2015 were additionally charged under Part 1 of Art. 30, art. 278 Criminal Code (attempt on violent takeover).

At the end of April 2016, the case was brought to court in Kemerovo against a 20-year-old local resident who posted materials on the social network, which, according to law enforcement officers, incite national hatred and contribute to rehabilitation of Nazism. At the end of April 2016, Kemerovo completed investigation of the case of inciting ethnic hatred (Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code) and rehabilitation Nazism (part 1 of article 354.1 of the Criminal Code).

On May 4, 2016, it became known that a criminal case under Art. 222 of the Criminal Code (illegal acquisition, transfer, sale, storage, transportation or carrying of weapons, their main parts, ammunition). The issue of initiating several more criminal cases, including under Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremist activities). According to the FSB, we are talking about an underground Salafi cell associated with ISIS.

We are publishing the text of the speech of the representative of the Church of Scientology in the CIS, Nina De Castro, at the international conference “Religion in the Public Arena: the problem of discrimination on religious grounds” held on April 26, 2016 in St. Petersburg. Recently, the media burst out with a block of publications devoted to the topic of “fighting sects” in the State Duma.

On May 4, 2016, it became known that representatives of the Saratov diocese were outraged by the appearance on the Internet of a collage with an image stylized as an icon of the Mother of God and Child. On May 1, 2016, Saratov journalist Sergei Vilkov published the collage on his Facebook page. In this image, a woman wearing a mask and headscarf with the sign “Anarchy” holds a Molotov cocktail and a baby wearing a gas mask.

At the end of April 2016 in Kurgan, the court sentenced to 100 hours of compulsory work by a local resident who published her photograph with a xenophobic poster in hand. At the end of April 2016, in Kuraga, a sentence was passed on the case of inciting ethnic hatred (part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code).

On May 1, 2016, in addition to Moscow, May Day marches of the ultra-right, traditionally called "Russian May Day", took place in several cities of the country. In St. Petersburg, nationalists took part in a citywide processions. Supporters of the Other Russia party formed their own separate column Edward Limonov. The activists marched with the symbols of the party, the flags of "Novorossia" and the DPR, under the slogan "The Russian world is coming!".

The World Court of the Lukhovitsky Judicial District of the Moscow Region passed a sentence against A. Ivanov for attacking a native of Uzbekistan in February 2016. On May 4, 2016, the Magistrate's Court of the Lukhovitsky Judicial District of the Moscow Region passed a sentence against A. Ivanov under paragraph “b” of Part 2 of Art. 116 of the Criminal Code (beatings motivated by hatred). According to the case file, on February 18, 2016, Ivanov hit a native of Uzbekistan with a piece of pipe.

The prosecutor's office of the Pervomaisky district of Murmansk sent applications to the court to block anonymizer sites. On May 4, 2016, the prosecutor's office of the Pervomaisky district of Murmansk announced that it had sent 13 applications to the court demanding that information posted on Internet sites be declared prohibited for distribution in Russia. We are talking about a number of sites-anonymizers.

On Easter night, in one of the villages of the Kemerovo region, unknown people knocked over a bow cross. On the night of April 30 to May 1, 2016 at In Berdovka, Kemerovo region, unidentified people overturned a bow cross on the ground. The believers turned to the police.

April 29, 2016 the Federal List was updated again extremist materials. Items were added to it. 3391 - 3406. List supplemented the materials of Muslim militants and Nazi skinheads. Update of the Federal List of Extremist Materials dated April 29, 2016 3391.