The authors of the new bill specified the mechanism for canceling the decision to acquire citizenship. On April 21, 2017, a new text of the bill on the deprivation of citizenship of those convicted of terrorism and extremism was submitted to the State Duma. Its authors were Vyacheslav Volodin, Vladimir Vasiliev, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Gennady Zyuganov, Sergei Mironov, Ivan Melnikov, Igor Lebedev, Irina Yarovaya, Pavel Krasheninnikov and Mikhail Yemelyanov.

In April 2017 in Moscow it was a criminal case was initiated against 31-year-old activist Nikita Sadkov, suspected of publishing a video on the Internet calling for violence against Russians, as well as burning the flag of the Russian Federation on Red Square. In July 2017, the court issued a decision on the arrest in absentia of a suspect who went abroad and asked for political asylum there. In April 2017 in Moscow it was initiated a criminal case under Art.

In April 2017, in the Baleisky district of the Trans-Baikal Territory, a court sentenced a 17-year-old local resident to 1 year and 4 months of imprisonment on probation, who was found guilty of publishing xenophobic texts, posts and comments in a group he created on the social network. In April 201, in the Baleisky district of the Trans-Baikal Territory, a sentence was passed in a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred) and under part 2 of Art.

Edited by Alexander Verkhovsky SUMMARY CREATION OF REGULATORY ACTS PRINCIPAL TARGETS OF PERSECUTION : Ideological Opponents of the Authorities : The “Ukrainian Question” : Other “Separatism” : Incitement to Hatred toward Public Officials : Fight against “Justification of Terrorism” : Religious Groups : Hizb ut-Tahrir : Tablighi Jamaat : Followers of Said Nursi : Other Muslims : Jehovah's Witnesses : Yehowist-Ilyinites : Downsides of the Fight for Tolerance : Fight against Those Insulting the

A resident of Izberbash is suspected of organizing a cell of the banned association Nurcular. On April 21, 2017, the FSB of Russia for the Republic of Dagestan reported that Ilgar Aliev (b. 1977) was detained in Izberbash. He is suspected of involvement in organizing a cell of the extremist organization Nurcular. Criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code was initiated on 19 April.

They want to punish Valentin Tabachny for pictures with a swastika in the social network. In April 2017, the instructor of the Severodvinsk military-sports-patriotic club "Spetsnaz" Valentin Tabachny said that an administrative protocol had been drawn up against him under Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (public display of Nazi symbols).

In Naro-Fominsk, the police cordoned off the territory of the mosque and checked the documents of the parishioners. At the same time, believers were "loaded onto buses without explanation." ​​ April 21, 2017 in Naro-Fominsk, the police cordoned off the territory of the mosque and conducted an inspection documents. believers reported that “people were loaded onto buses without explanation; among detainees are parishioners with children”.

Residents of Kamensk-Uralsky, Sverdlovsk region, oppose the construction of the Church of St. John the Evangelist in the Yuzhny microdistrict. April 18, 2017 year it became known that the inhabitants of Kamensk-Uralsky, Sverdlovsk region oppose the construction of the Church of St. John the Theologian in the Yuzhny microdistrict. « Better throw themselves on the new bridge, which the city needs , " - consider the inhabitants of the city.

The International Court of Justice placed an obligation on Russia to ensure the work of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people. On April 19, 2017, the International Court of Justice partially satisfied Ukraine's demands to establish provisional measures against Russia while the Ukrainian lawsuit is being considered in this court.

In April 2017 in Nizhny Novgorod the court sentenced a 32-year-old local resident to 2 years of imprisonment on probation, found guilty of publishing a xenophobic comment to an article in informational public in the social network. In April 2017 in Nizhny Novgorod a verdict was passed in the case of inciting ethnic hatred (part 1 of article 282 UK).

In April 2017 in the city of Zainsk of the Republic of Tatarstan, the court fined a local resident who was found guilty of publishing in social networks of the banned video. In April 2017, in the city of Zainsk, Republic of Tatarstan, initiated an administrative case under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (mass distribution extremist materials).

We are publishing a commentary by Ksenia Sergazina, associate professor at the Educational and Scientific Center for the Study of Religions of the Russian State University for the Humanities, expert at the SOVA Center, dedicated to the ban of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. On April 20, 2017, the Supreme Court of Russia granted the claim of the Ministry of Justice to recognize the Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia as an extremist organization.