The Sergiev Posad City Court begins a new trial of a criminal case on charges of inciting religious hatred against the elders of the local community of Jehovah's Witnesses Vyacheslav Stepanov and Andrey Sivak. 9 January 2017 Sergiev Posad city the court starts a new trial criminal case under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (excitation religious hatred) against the elders local religious organization Jehovah's Witnesses Vyacheslav Stepanov and Andrey Sivak. Criminal case under Art.

A case of illegal missionary work has been opened against a St. Petersburg lecturer who spoke about yoga. At the beginning of January 2017, it became known that on October 22, 2016, in St. Petersburg, the police detained programmer Dmitry Ugay, who was giving a lecture on yoga at the city festival “Vedalife”. The police interrupted the lecture and demanded that D. Ugay come with them, without explaining the reason for the detention.

On the night of January 6-7, 2016, Orthodox churches hosted Christmas services. We provide data on the number of visitors to these worship in different regions. In Moscow, according to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, night services are approximately 400 temples were visited by more than 600 thousand people. In the Vladimir region on the night of January 7, divine services were held in 184 churches in 133 settlements. More than 18 thousand people.

In January 2017, in St. Petersburg, the court sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment on probation for the nationalist Nikolai Bondarik, who was recognized as guilty of publishing a xenophobic post on a social network. In January 2017, the Kalininsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced in a case against a local nationalist Nikolay Bondarik. Recall that Nikolai Bondarik was detained on September 17, 2015. Later he was charged under Part 1 of Art.

Two cafes were fined under Part 2 of Art. 6.17 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. 9 January 2017 Prosecutor's Office of Nizhny Novgorod region reported that in the Lower Novgorod, two cafes were fined under Part. 2 tbsp.

Leninsky District Court of Vladivostok partially canceled decision against the local organization of the Salvation Army: seized from it was decided not to destroy her books, including copies of the Bible. December 30, 2016 Leninsky District Court of Vladivostok At the protest of the prosecutor's office, he revised the decision to confiscate from the Salvation Army and destroy religious literature.

The actions of the Vyborg customs, which detained the circulation of the New Testament and the Psalter at the border, were declared illegal. 9 January 2017 became It is known that on December 21, 2016, the Vyborg City Court satisfied the claim of the Association of Evangelical Christians "Gideon" and acknowledged illegal actions of the Vyborg customs, detained at the border with Finland in the summer of 2016 a large batch of New Testament and Psalms.

Here we publish comments on the problems of unlawful application of anti-extremist legislation, prepared by the authors of our Center since 2010 for other publications and organizations. Comments are listed in reverse chronological order. Previous publications can be viewed: for 2010-2011 - here , for 2012 - here , for 2013 - here , for 2014 - here , for 2015 - here , for 2016 - here . Polina Smertina. No evidence required page .