A court in Nikolsk decided that two forbidden pamphlets in a worship visitor's jacket are no reason to punish the head of the community. On October 12, 2016, the Nikolsky District Court of the Penza Region, for lack of corpus delicti, terminated the proceedings on the case of Yury Kim, Chairman of the Committee of the local religious organization of Jehovah's Witnesses Nikolsk, who was tried to be prosecuted under Art.

Residents of Samara protest against the construction of a mosque in the Krasnoglinsky district. On October 16, 2016, it became known that the residents of Samara were protesting against the construction of a mosque in the Krasnoglinsky district - in the village of Mekhzavod. The protesters turned to mayor of the city, reminding him that on the territory given for construction mosques, it was planned to build a sports complex with a swimming pool.

A resident of the Teikovsky district was punished for publishing the audiobook Good News from God. In October 2016, we learned that on September 9, 2016, the Teikovsky District Court of the Ivanovo Region fined a local resident 1,000 rubles under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (storage of extremist materials for the purpose of mass distribution). The decision was not appealed and entered into force on 20 September.

Members of the association, performing under the flag of "Misanthropic Division" and the Ukrainian flag with the symbols of the Phoenix group, published a video message on YouTube video hosting, in which claimed responsibility for the assassination of DPR commander Arsen Pavlov (Motorola).

In October 2016, a criminal case was opened in Tula under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code against a 20-year-old local resident who posted a xenophobic image with a caption on a social network. In October 2016, a criminal case was initiated in Tula under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred).

We are publishing a report by Svetlana Solodovnik about the meeting of the Patriarch with the participants of the international student forum. October 13 at the 75th pavilion VDNKh worked almost all day II International Orthodox student forum organized by the government of Moscow and the Synodal Department for Youth Affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church. Moscow State University, MEPhI, MSTU im.

An illegally banned book was found in the mosque of Imai-Karmaly village. On September 21, 2016, the Davlekanovsky District Court of the Republic of Bashkortostan fined 1,000 rubles under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (storage of extremist materials for the purpose of mass distribution) of the chairman of the council of the local Muslim religious organization "Mahalla" in the village of Imai-Karmaly Rafit Kharisov.

In Saransk, a search was conducted in the worship building of Jehovah's Witnesses, during which prohibited literature was found. According to believers, the literature was planted by inspectors. October 13, 2016 in Saransk in a liturgical building Jehovah's Witnesses were searched, during which a prohibited literature.

September 29, 2016 in Ramenskoye Moscow Region court sentenced N. Medvedev to restraint of liberty for attacking native of Uzbekistan. On September 29, 2016, the court district No. 326 of the Ramensky Judicial District of the Moscow Region passed a sentence against N. Medvedev, accused under paragraph “b” of Part 2 of Art. 116 of the Criminal Code (beatings motivated by hatred), for an attack on a native of Uzbekistan in January 2016. N. Medvedev filed a motion for a verdict without a trial.

In October 2016, in the village of Vanino, Khabarovsk Territory, a court sentenced a 48-year-old local resident to a fine of 130,000 rubles for posting 16 xenophobic images on a social network. In October 2016, in the village of Vanino, Khabarovsk, a sentence was passed in a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred).

The media are afraid that the article on non-information from the "Yarovaya package" will be used against them.

In October 2016, in the city of Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod Region, a local resident was sentenced to 1 year and 10 months in a strict regime colony for publishing xenophobic materials on VKontakte against people from the Caucasus and Central Asia. In October 2016, in the city of Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod Region, a court delivered a verdict in the case of inciting ethnic hatred (Part 1, Article 282 of the Criminal Code).

After protests by the Orthodox community in Omsk, the play "Jesus Christ Superstar" was canceled. October 17, 2016 became it is known that after the protests of the Orthodox community in Omsk, the performance was canceled "Jesus Christ - Superstar" of the St. Petersburg theater "Rock Opera", which should was shown at the Musical Theater on 1 November.

The government wants to introduce large penalties for providers for failure to fulfill their obligations to block and unblocking sites On October 7, the State Duma approved in the first reading a government bill providing for increased liability of Internet providers for failure to comply obligations to block pages based on information received from Roskomnadzor. The bill was submitted to the State Duma on June 17, 2016.