On Valaam, the building of the monastery hotel of the 19th century was damaged by fire. According to the main version of the investigation, the building was set on fire by a local resident. On May 1, 2016, a building caught fire on Valaam "Winter Hotel" (cultural monument of the XIX century), where pilgrims visiting the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery stop.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the decision to recognize the Ethno-Political Association "Russians" as an extremist organization. On May 11, 2016, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recognized as legal the ban on the Ethnopolitical Association "Russians" as an extremist organization. Thus, the ruling of the Moscow City Court was left unchanged, the appeal was not satisfied.

In Rostov-on-Don I. Albegadzhiev was convicted for xenophobic materials in the social network VKontakte. In May 2016, the Leninsky District Court of the city of Rostov-on-Don passed a sentence against I. Albegadzhiev. He was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (incitement of ethnic hatred and enmity) and sentenced to 1 year 6 months of imprisonment, suspended, with a probationary period of 1 year 6 months.

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Kostroma Region reported three cases of administrative penalties for publicly displaying extremist materials and Nazi symbols. In Nerekhta, a local resident posted on a popular social network a song by a group "whose work has been recognized as extremist." The court brought him to administrative liability for hours.1 Article. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (public demonstration of Nazi symbols) and fined 1,000 rubles.

The media reported that in the city of Vladivostok in the Snegovaya Pad area, a group of teenagers (from 15 to 22 years old) holding neo-Nazi views are engaged in attacks on schoolchildren, robberies and extortion. On May 11, the Vladivostok media reported that in the Snegovaya Pad area, a group of young people from 15 to 22 attacked schoolchildren, extorting money from them and threatening them. After a 15-year-old teenager was severely beaten on May 8, his parents turned to the police.

In Penza, a criminal case has been initiated against a 20-year-old local resident for audio recordings in the social network. In May 2016, the Investigative Department for the Zheleznodorozhny District of the city of Penza, the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Penza Region, initiated a criminal case against a 20-year-old local resident. He is suspected under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred or enmity).

In Crimea, the court fined a resident of Feodosia for 1 thousand rubles for the image of an airplane with a swastika in the comments to the news on the website of the news agency. In early May 2016, the Feodosia City Court sentenced a local resident to a fine of 1,000 rubles. " in the comments to a news article on the news agency's website According to the case file, a local resident posted " an image of a German military aircraft with Nazi symbols painted on it .

In Belomorsk (Republic of Karelia) a criminal case has been initiated against a minor for xenophobic publications on the Internet. In May 2016, the Investigative Department for Belomorsk of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Karelia initiated a criminal case against a 17-year-old teenager suspected under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred and enmity).

On May 6, 2016, the Federal List was updated again extremist materials. Items were added to it. 3427 - 3451. List replenished the materials of Nazi skinheads on the Internet, the book of A. Blagin "The Apocalypse Comes Tomorrow", materials from the magazine "Ecumena", materials from the Islamist magazine Istok. Update of the Federal List of Extremist Materials dated May 6, 2016 3427.

The number of Russians convicted under the article “Inciting hatred or enmity”, in 2015 amounted to 414 people - this is three times more than five years ago, reports Gazeta.ru. It is emphasized that in the first place increased the number of people convicted for using the Internet for extremist purposes. So, in 2011, 82 people were convicted with this wording, and in 2015 - 369.

In Yugra, Surgut resident Nikita Gori was convicted of xenophobic publications on the VKontakte social network. On May 11, 2016, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Yugra was informed that the court had sentenced 24-year-old Surgut resident Nikita Gori, who was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred or enmity).

In connection with the arson of the building of the monastery hotel on Valaam, a criminal case was initiated. The main suspect is arrested, by court order, until July 2. May 10, 2016 year it became known that a criminal case had been initiated in Karelia on Part 2 Art.

In the park near the Golovinsky Ponds, a conflict broke out between supporters of the construction of the temple and the defenders of the park. Muscovites turned to the police with a statement about the illegal construction of the temple. On May 10, 2016, in Moscow, in a park near the Golovinsky Ponds, a conflict broke out between supporters of the construction of the temple and the defenders of the park.

The Lagansky District Court fined the blogger for publishing an anti-Islamic video “This is Islam, this is Syria, the sentence for children begins with words in the name of Allah, merciful and merciful.” May 11, 2016 year it became known that the Lagansky District Court of Kalmykia passed a guilty verdict under Part 2 of Art. 1 st. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred) against a 33-year-old man.