The governor of the Sverdlovsk region, speaking at a press conference, confirmed that the "temple-on-the-water" will be built, despite the protests of the townspeople. On December 26, 2016, the Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region confirmed that that the Church of St. Catherine will be built for the 300th anniversary of Yekaterinburg, despite protests. « Temple be ,” he said at a press conference. - That that it will be a good gift for the 300th anniversary, is obviously.

In December 2016, in the city of Syktyvkar in the Komi Republic, a court sentenced 39-year-old Oleg Kelshchikov to 240 hours of compulsory labor, who was found guilty of publishing banned xenophobic materials on a social network. In December 2016, in the city of Syktyvkar of the Komi Republic, a sentence was passed in the case of inciting ethnic hatred (Part 1, Article 282 of the Criminal Code).

In December 2016, the Investigative Committee for the Krasnoyarsk Territory announced that new episodes under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national and religious hatred). According to law enforcement agencies, in February 2014 the young man published xenophobic materials on the VKontakte social network, which was qualified as inciting national and religious hatred. Unfortunately, it was not reported in which case (and under which article) these episodes were added.

In December 2016, in Vladimir, a court sentenced a 17-year-old teenager to 1 year and 7 months of imprisonment on probation, finding him guilty of beating a 15-year-old follower of the emo subculture. In December 2016, the Frunzensky District Court of Vladimir issued a verdict in the case of causing moderate harm to health motivated by hatred of the social group "emo" (paragraph "e" part 2 of article 112 of the Criminal Code).

In December 2016, a court in Omsk sentenced 59-year-old RNU activist Alexander Krasnoperov to 10 years in a strict regime colony, who was found guilty of the murder of Ilya Zhuravlev, a supporter of Russian Jogging, as well as xenophobic propaganda.

N. Sukhov, who serves under contract in one of the military units of the Ussuriysk garrison, was not found guilty of publicly insulting the feelings of believers. December 28, 2016 Ussuriysky the garrison military court delivered a verdict of not guilty in the case of a serviceman N. Sukhov, who served under a contract in one of the military units of the Ussuri garrison, who was accused under Part 1 of Art.

In Elista the police checked the documents of Muslims: they took pictures of believers in a minibus located near the mosque. On December 23, 2016, in the suburbs of Elista, masked police officers conducted an identity check of Muslims. After Friday prayer, the police surrounded the mosque and led the believers one by one into minibus for checking documents and photographing. Recall that on the same day a similar police action was held in Saransk.

In Nizhnevartovsk, the case of four Muslims accused of inciting hatred against Christians and law enforcement officers and in collaboration with Hizb ut-Tahrir was brought to court. December 28th 2016, it became known that in Nizhnevartovsk the case of four Muslims accused of inciting hatred against Christians and law enforcement officials and in collaboration with Hizb ut-Tahrir. initiated against them criminal case under Part 2 of Art.

Another opponent of military operations in Ukraine is being persecuted for displaying Nazi symbols. December 26 2016 magistrate court district No. 4 of the Kirovsky district of Perm considered case under Art. 20.3 Administrative Code (demonstration Nazi symbols) against the local resident, twenty-year-old Maxim Simonov. The court came to the conclusion that it had no right to consider the case under this article and transferred it to the Kirovsky District Court.

27th of December 2016, a meeting of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church was held, at which it was decided to divide several more dioceses. Synod divided the Kostroma diocese, separating Galich and Chelyabinsk from its composition - singling out Zlatoustskaya from its composition. Together The Kostroma and Galich diocese became part of the Kostroma metropolis, and the Chelyabinsk and Zlatoust - to the Chelyabinsk Metropolis.

On December 25, 2016, in St. Petersburg, three young men sprayed a visitor from Central Asia with a spray can into the eyes and stabbed him in the neck. On December 25, 2016, an attack was made on a native of Central Asia in St. Petersburg. The incident took place on Solidarity Avenue, where three young people aged 20-25 approached a 21-year-old visitor named Saidullo, who was sitting on a bench in front of the house, and asked him how to get to the metro.

Rishat Gataullin was sentenced to a suspended sentence. December 28, 2016 Volga District Military the court found Rishat Gataullin guilty under Part 2 of Art. 205.5 of the Criminal Code (participation in the activities of terrorist organization) and sentenced him to 4.5 years in prison on probation.

In December 2016, a criminal case was opened in Rostov-on-Don under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code against a 33-year-old local resident suspected of publishing xenophobic materials on a social network. In December 2016, a criminal case was opened in Rostov-on-Don under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred).

Andrei Nevrov, an activist from Orel, was acquitted under Art. 5.26 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. 28 December 2016 world Court of Judicial District No. 3 Sovetsky district of the city of Orel stopped production in a case initiated under Part 2 of Art. 5.26 Administrative Code (intentional public desecration religious objects, signs or emblems of the worldview symbols and paraphernalia) against pensioner Andrei Nevrov.

On December 28, 2016, it became known that the Federal List of Extremist organizations published on the official website of the Ministry of Justice was added two organizations .