On April 7, 2017, it became known that the Federal List of Extremist organizations published on the official website of the Ministry of Justice, one organization was added.

In April 2017 in the city of Noginsk, Moscow Region, in the court was referred to the case against a local resident Alexander Amelin, accused of publication of xenophobic materials on social networks. In April 2017, in the city of Noginsk, Moscow Region, there were completed the investigation of the case of inciting ethnic hatred (part 1 of article 282 UK).

On April 7, 2017, a racist crime was committed in St. attack on two Yemeni citizens. It is reported that five drunken young men beat visitors at a public transport stop. Fortunately, both victims were not seriously injured. The incident became known from the news of the sentencing attackers. Sources Vandals who staged a pogrom at a cemetery were condemned in St. Petersburg // News of St. Petersburg. March 11, 2018 The Vasileostrovskiy District Court of St.

In February 2017 in the Industrial District of the Smolensk Region court fined 1,000 rubles for a local resident found guilty of publishing in the social network of a certain forbidden audio recording. In February 2017 in the Industrial District of the Smolensk Region an administrative case was initiated under Art. 20.29 Administrative Code (mass dissemination of extremist materials).

Representatives of the Russian Union of Evangelical Christian Baptists appealed to Vladimir Putin with a request not to allow the closure of religious organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses. April 5, 2017 representatives of the Russian Union Evangelical Christian Baptists turned to Vladimir Putin with a request not to allow the closure of religious organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses.

At the end of March 2017, employees of the St. Isaac's Cathedral museum-monument appealed to the President of the Russian Federation with a request to suspend the law on the transfer of religious property to religious organizations until the issue of the mechanism for transferring UNESCO World Heritage sites is resolved. At the end of March 2017, employees of the St.

In April 2017, in Ryazan, a court fined a local citizen 3,000 rubles of a resident found guilty of posting a banned video on a social network song of the neo-Nazi group "Gangs of Moscow". In April 2017, an administrative case under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (mass distribution of extremist materials).

A criminal case has been opened in Tomsk in connection with the publication of “messages with insults to religious symbols” on a social network. On April 7, 2017, it became known that a criminal case under Part 1 of Art.

The Strasbourg court will consider the complaint of the Astrakhan nationalist. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in March 2017 registered the complaint of the Astrakhan nationalist Igor Stenin against the sentence under Part 2 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for the implementation of extremist activities via the Internet). On May 16, 2016, the leader of the Russian Astrakhan movement, Stenin, was sentenced to two years in a penal colony.

The prosecutor's office of the Fokinsky district of Bryansk began checking the statements of blogger Nikolai Vitkevich, who opposed the procession and the installation of a worship cross in the city. April 7, 2017 year it became known that the prosecutor's office of the Fokinsky district of Bryansk began checking statements of blogger Nikolai Vitkevich.