The decision of the Vyborg City Court to ban the brochures "The End Is Near" and "What Hope for the Homeless and the Poor" confiscated by customs in March 2015 has been cancelled. October 13 2016 Leningrad Regional the court refused recognize brochures as extremist Witnesses Jehovah's "End" close" and "What hope for the homeless and the poor" seized by customs in March 2015 at the International Automobile checkpoint Svetlogorsk.

In Chuvashia, a court sentenced a local to 3 years and 9 months in a colony a resident who has published books aimed at inciting religious hate. On October 13, 2016, the Novocheboksary City Court recognized 36-year-old local resident ) guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (actions, aimed at inciting hatred, as well as humiliating the dignity of a person or groups of persons on the grounds of nationality committed in public).

The director of the Vladimir-Suzdal Museum-Reserve, Igor Konyshev, announced his readiness to transfer three churches to the Russian Orthodox Church and Russian Orthodox Church, but only after other premises are found for the museum objects located in them. On October 5, 2016, the general director of the Vladimir-Suzdal Museum-Reserve, Igor Konyshev, announced his readiness to transfer the St.

Thefollowing is our review of the primary and most representative events inthe misuse of Russia’s anti-extremist legislation in September 2016. Lawmaking Inearly September 2016, in the midst of the election campaign, deputiesValery Rashkin and SergeyObukhov oftheCommunist Party introduced a bill in the State Duma seeking to add tothe Criminal Code a new article on insulting the feelings of warveterans.

In October 2016, in the city of Shadrinsk, Kurgan Region, a court sentenced four members of the White Wolves ultra-right gang to various suspended sentences and granted amnesty to the fifth. In October 2016, in Shadrinsk, Kurgan region, a verdict was handed down in cases against five members of the White Wolves group. In the dock were the 27-year-old leader of the organization, activists aged 22 and 19, and two of the youngest 18-year-old activists.

Two Old Believer organizations and two parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church received presidential grants. On October 10, 2016 it became known that two Old Believer organizations received presidential grants. Such a decision adopted as a result of the competition of NPO projects to improve the quality of life of people old age, social support for pensioners and citizens who find themselves in difficult life situation, as well as the development of traditional spiritual values.

In October 2016 in Sevastopol, a case against a 25-year-old local resident, posted a xenophobic video on social media. In October 2016 in Sevastopol, an investigation into the case of initiating a national hatred (part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code). On the dock there was a 25-year-old local resident who was accused of being in September 2014 published on his page in the social network "VKontakte" a xenophobic video. Unfortunately, which the video in question was not reported.

In October 2016, in the city of Shuya, Ivanovo region, there were initiated an administrative case under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (distribution extremist materials). The case was initiated against the artist Sergei Postnov, who published a post with a photograph of graffiti on his page on the social network, glorifying the Azov Battalion. The case is under consideration.

In October 2016 in Perm, a criminal case was initiated under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (excitation national hatred). The case was brought against journalist Roman Yushkov in connection with his xenophobic publication in LiveJournal “Tell to a stranger his "No".