We publish an article by lawyers Denis Litvinov and Evgeny Shestakov about the situation in Naberezhnye Chelny, where the court two hours after the decision to initiate an administrative case, sentenced Pentecostal citizen of India to a fine for illegal missionary activities and expulsion from Russia. The Supreme Court of Tatarstan confirmed sentence.

Activist Valentin Murzaev fined under art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. February 26, 2017 in Perm after a rally in memory of Boris Nemtsov was detained one of the organizers of the event, public activist Valentin Murzaev. A protocol was drawn up against him under Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (propaganda or displaying Nazi symbols). The reason was that on his page on the social network in 2014 a video was posted containing a frame with Nazi symbols.

In February 2017, in the city of Cheboksary, Chuvash Republic, a court ruled to apply coercive medical measures to a mentally ill 27-year-old local resident, who was found guilty of publishing a xenophobic text on a social network. In February 2017, in the city of Cheboksary, Chuvash Republic, a court considered a case on inciting ethnic hatred (Part 1, Article 282 of the Criminal Code).

In February 2017, a criminal case was opened in Kirov under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code against a resident of the Raduzhny microdistrict, who is suspected of posting xenophobic videos on social networks. In February 2017, a criminal case was opened in Kirov according to part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred).

The court extended the video blogger's house arrest until August 14. On February 27, 2017, the Verkh-Isetsky District Court of Yekaterinburg held preliminary hearing in the case of video blogger Ruslan Sokolovsky, accused of inciting hatred (part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code) and insulting feelings believers in places of worship (part 2 of article 148 of the Criminal Code). The court extended Sokolovsky's house arrest until August 14, 2017.

In Nizhnevartovsk, four people convicted under terrorist articles for cooperation with Hizb ut-Tahrir received suspended sentences and fines. On February 22, 2017, it became known that the Privolzhsky District Military Court at an off-site session in Nizhnevartovsk delivered a verdict in another Hizb ut-Tahrir case. Four defendants were found guilty under Part 2 of Art. 205.5 (participation in the activities of a terrorist organization), and three - also under Part 1 of Art.

In Saratov, a court sentenced 19-year-old Alexander Gozenko to 160 hours of compulsory labor, who was found guilty of publishing comments on the VKontakte network that incite national hatred against Russians and social hatred against "patriots of Russia" . In February 2017, a court in Saratov issued a judgment in a case of incitement to hatred (Part 1, Article 282 of the Criminal Code) on the grounds of belonging to a nationality and social group.

On February 24, 2017, in St. Petersburg, a court arrested for two months Andrei Mikhailov, suspected of committing the murder of a 26-year-old attendee at a concert of the British punk band The Exploited. On February 24, 2017, 42-year-old local resident Andrei Mikhailov was arrested in St. Petersburg, suspected of committing the murder of a 26-year-old concertgoer of the British punk band The Exploited.

St Petersburg University experts, at the request of the prosecutor's office, examined the symbol from Google maps. February 16, 2017 Director of the Center for Expertise St. Petersburg State University Z.V. Myskova was conclusion at the request of the Deputy Prosecutor of St. Petersburg dated January 31, 2017 year, which was later published on the university website.