If the claim is satisfied, Jehovah's Witnesses will be outlawed in Russia. On March 15, 2017, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation applied to The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation with a claim for the liquidation of the Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia and the ban on the activities of a religious organization for extremism. Consideration of the claim is scheduled for April 5. The lawsuit followed the check organizations that ended on February 27, 2017.

The following is our monthly review of instances of xenophobia and radical nationalism, along with government countermeasures, for the month of February 2017. The review is based on material gathered by SOVA Center over the course of our daily monitoring. In February 2017, no fewer than three people suffered from xenophobic violence, of these three, one person, an attendee at a punk group’s concert in Saint Petersburg, was killed.

In Moscow, a court found the rapper guilty of inciting hatred against activists of the Antidealer movement. March 16, 2017 Presnensky District Court of Moscow found rapper David Nuriev ("Ptahu") guilty of inciting hatred to representatives of the Antidealer public organization, which provides assistance to law enforcement agencies. Nuriev was sentenced under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code to a fine of 200 thousand rubles.

In Samara, a 42-year-old local resident received a two-year suspended sentence for writing xenophobic texts on Odnoklassniki and Facebook social networks. In March 2017, in Samara, a 42-year-old local resident was found guilty under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting ethnic hatred). According to the case file, from January 28, 2015 to July 31, 2016, the defendant posted several xenophobic texts on the Odnoklassniki and Facebook social networks on his personal pages.

The following is our review of the primary and most representative events in the misuse of Russia’s anti-extremist legislation in February 2017 . Lawmaking On February 22, 2017, Vladimir Putin approved amendments to the Administrative Code that provide for increasing the responsibility of Internet providers for failure to fulfill their obligations to block webpages on the basis of information received from the Roskomnadzor.

Deputies of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia dispute the legality of the transfer of the Winter Hotel building to the Valaam Monastery and the forced eviction of residents from the territory of the island. March 15, 2017 deputies of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia decided to conduct a parliamentary inquiry into the process of transferring the building to the Winter hotels” to the Valaam Monastery.

The reason for the persecution of the Chuvash activist under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses served as a repost of a message about his court case. March 16, 2017 Leninsky District Court Cheboksary fined Chuvash oppositionist Dmitry Semenov 3,000 rubles under Art.

VKontakte user fined in Yekaterinburg, three published two anti-Semitic videos a year ago. On March 9, 2017, it became known that the Kirov Court Yekaterinburg sentenced a 27-year-old resident of the city to a fine of 100 thousand rubles. rubles, finding him guilty under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred). According to the investigation and the court, in March 2014, a Yekaterinburg resident published two videos on his VKontakte page aimed at inciting hatred towards Jews.

The organization, previously headed by Rafis Kashapov, is threatened with liquidation. On March 16, 2017, it became known that the prosecutor of Tatarstan Ildus Nafikov applied to the city court of Naberezhnye Chelny with a statement on the prohibition of the activities of the Naberezhnye Chelny branch of the Tatarstan Regional All-Tatar Political Public Movement (REVTATPOD) - the All-Tatar Public Center (VTOTS) (NCHOTTS) as an extremist organization.

Andrey Bubeev was denied a cassation appeal. On March 16, 2017, the lawyer of Andrey from Tver Bubeeva Svetlana Sidorkina reported that on February 27, 2017 the Tver Regional Court refused to submit a complaint against his sentence to the cassation instance, that is, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. Recall that Bubeev received two years and three months in prison on charges of publishing extremist texts on the Internet.

In St. Petersburg, a rally was held in support of the blogger Sokolovsky, who is accused of insulting the feelings of believers: four activists of the “Spring” movement marched through the streets of the city, portraying the Pokémon, the Blogger who was hunting him, as well as the Priest and the Policeman chasing the blogger. On March 13, 2017, an action was held in St.