The State Institute of Art History confirmed that the claims of the Russian Orthodox Church to the building of the Averky Kirillov Chambers on Bersenevskaya Embankment are unfounded. On November 2, 2016, it became known that representatives of the Institute of Cultural Heritage applied to the State Institute of Art Studies with a request to provide an expert opinion on the building of the Averky Kirillov Chambers on Bersenevskaya Embankment, which is claimed by the Russian Orthodox Church.

In November 2016, a case against an 18-year-old local resident accused of publishing neo-Nazi videos on the VKontakte social network was brought to court in Sevastopol. In November 2016, in Sevastopol, an investigation into the case of inciting ethnic hatred (Part 1, Article 282 of the Criminal Code) was completed.

November 3, 2016 Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation issued a new resolution on the use of anti-terrorist and anti-extremist articles of the Criminal Code ("On Amendments to the Decrees Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation dated February 9, 2012 No. 1 "O some issues of judicial practice in criminal cases on crimes terrorist orientation" and dated June 28, 2011 No. 11 "On judicial practice in criminal cases on crimes of extremist directions").

We publish the main theses of the report of the expert of the SOVA Center Ksenia Sergazina, presented on October 29 at the conference "Greater Eurasia: Dynamics of Political and Social Processes" in Almaty (Kazakhstan).

Admirers of the pasta monster register the religious group "Pastafarian Church of the LMM" in Nizhny Novgorod. October 4, 2016 leader Nizhny Novgorod pastafarians Mikhail Iosilevich filed a notification with the Ministry of Justice on the creation of the religious group "Pastafarian LMM Church. M. Iosilevich told reporters that the plans for 2017 include the registration of a religious organization.

In October 2016 in the city of Yuryev-Polsky Vladimir region court fined 2 thousand rubles of a 17-year-old local resident who posted several images with Nazi symbols in the social network. In October 2016 in the city of Yuryev-Polsky Vladimir region was initiated administrative case under Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (propaganda and public demonstration Nazi symbols).

In November 2016 in the city of Barnaul, Altai Territory, by 2 years of imprisonment, the court conditionally sentenced a local resident Ya. guilty of publishing xenophobic materials on the VKontakte network. In November 2016, in the city of Barnaul, Altai Territory, a verdict was passed in the case of inciting ethnic hatred (part 1 of article 282 UK). In the dock was a local resident Ya., whom were accused of posting on the social network VKontakte certain xenophobic materials.

At the end of October 2016, Moscow completed investigation of a case against far-right activist Dmitry Alferov and his wife. D.

In October 2016, in Sortavala, Republic of Karelia, a court fined a local resident 1,000 rubles for publishing three historical posters with a swastika on his VKontakte page. On November 1, 2016, from the message of the Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Karelia, it became known that on October 28, the Sortavalsky City Court fined a local resident Vitaly Rystov 1 thousand rubles under part 1 of Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (public display of Nazi symbols).

We are publishing the original article published in English in the Moscow Times on November 2, 2016. The Russian version is a little more complete.

We are publishing a quarterly review by the SOVA Center dedicated to the problems of realizing freedom of conscience in Russia in July-September 2016. The review is based on news materials published on our website. For more information about the illegal application of anti-extremist legislation in the religious sphere, see the monthly reviews on this topic. The previous review can be read here .

In early November 2016, two young people born in 1989 and 1991 were detained in St. Petersburg, suspected of killing an Uzbek citizen. According to the investigation, on October 28, 2016, young people beat to death a newcomer born in 1970 who worked at a construction site, "during a sudden conflict." The victim's body was found next to a construction trailer, which is located near an unfinished house on Vologodskaya Street.

In November 2016 in Orenburg, by 480 hours of mandatory work, the court sentenced the 23-year-old founder of the Skinheads of Orenburg group to social network "VKontakte". In November 2016, a court in Orenburg delivered a verdict in the case of incitement of national hatred (part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code).

Yevgeny Kort was sentenced to a year in a colony-settlement for posting a xenophobic collage on a social network. On November 3, 2016, the Zelenogradsky District Court of Moscow sentenced 20-year-old Yevgeny Kort, who had no previous convictions, to a year in prison in a colony-settlement under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred).

On October 31, 2016, the trial against Artemy Podkorytov began in Yekaterinburg. He is accused of posting audio recordings of the Ensemble Christ the Savior and Mother Earth Cheese" on the social network "VKontakte". In October 2016, the case of Artemy Podkorytov, accused under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred).