Tver Hare Krishnaite Andrey Puchkov managed to appeal against two world court order fined him for illegal missionary work. On April 27, 2017, the Tver Regional Court satisfied complaints against decisions of the world courts of the Central and Proletarsky districts Tver in two cases of illegal missionary work and terminated the proceedings on administrative cases against Krishnaite Andrey Puchkov. Recall that in relation to A. Puchkov, the case under Part 4 of Art.

Employees of the FSB and Center "E" found a book by Said Nursi in the prayer room.

In the Nizhny Novgorod region, the prosecutor's office, which sought a ban unregistered religious group Jehovah's Witnesses, withdrew the lawsuit. Production terminated on it. On May 4, 2017, the Arzamas prosecutor's office withdrew the lawsuit to ban an unregistered group of Jehovah's Witnesses. Proceedings on the suit of the prosecutor's office continued from March 2017. The prosecutor's office sought a ban on operating without registration religious group.

The defense of nationalist Dmitry Demushkin, who was sentenced to 2.5 years in a penal colony, appealed the verdict. On May 4, 2017, in Moscow, lawyers for nationalist Dmitry Demushkin filed an appeal against the verdict of the Nagatinskiy Court of Moscow, in which they asked that the verdict be canceled and the criminal proceedings be terminated " due to the absence of corpus delicti ".

In Tatarstan, the tenth defendant in the case of participation in Tablighi Jamaat was sentenced to a real term. On May 5, 2017, the Naberezhnye Chelny City Court of the Republic of Tatarstan sentenced Rinat Minnegulov. He was found guilty of participating in the activities of the Tablighi Jamaat extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code) and sentenced to 1 year and 8 months in prison with a term of 6 months.

In April 2017, Valentin Tabachny was fined 1,000 rubles. On April 25, 2017, the Severodvinsk City Court fined Valentin Tabachny, instructor of the Severodvinsk military-sports-patriotic club Spetsnaz, 1,000 rubles, finding him guilty of an offense under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (public display of Nazi symbols). Tabachny filed an appeal to the Arkhangelsk Regional Court, its consideration is scheduled for May 10.

In Bashkiria, a court fined a 33-year-old resident of Birsk for posting an anti-Semitic video on a social network. In May 2017 in Birsk, under art. On 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (mass distribution of extremist materials), a citizen of Uzbekistan was fined for a video with anti-Semitic statements on the VKontakte social network.

The regional prosecutor's office demands a ban on the organization of Jehovah's Witnesses in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. On May 5, 2017, the Kamchatka Regional Court announced that it had received a lawsuit from the regional prosecutor to recognize the local religious organization of Jehovah's Witnesses Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky as extremist. The trial is set for May 23. In February, the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky City Court fined the community of Jehovah's Witnesses 200,000 rubles under Art.

The agency found in an interview with a fighter of the Syrian group signs of justifying terrorism. On May 4, 2017, The New Times Editor-in-Chief Yevgenia Albats reported on Facebook that the editorial office had received a warning from Roskomnadzor for publishing Pavel Nikulin's article "From Kaluga with Jihad." According to Albats, the agency saw signs of justifying terrorism in an interview with a fighter of the Jabhat al-Nusra organization banned in Russia.

In Saratov, local nationalist Andrey Martsev was arrested for 10 days for reposting a video on a social network. Martsev's appeal was dismissed. On May 5, 2017, the consideration of the appeal against the decision of the Kirovsky District Court was completed in the Saratov Regional Court.

In Nizhny Novgorod, a criminal case has been initiated against a 32-year-old local resident for an image and comments on a picture on a social network. In May 2017, in the Moskovsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region, a criminal case was initiated against a 32-year-old local resident, suspected under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred or enmity).

In the Ulyanovsk region, an investigation into the case of a 20-year-old student of one of the colleges for some videos on the social network has been completed. In May 2017, in the Ulyanovsk region, the investigation of the criminal case of a 20-year-old student of one of the colleges, a member of the team of a local restaurant, Vyacheslav Kruglov, was completed, accused under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred or enmity). According to the investigation, in 2015-2016.

Thefollowing is our monthly review of instances of xenophobia and radicalnationalism, along with government countermeasures, for the month of April2017. The review is based on material gathered by SOVA Center over thecourse of our daily monitoring. InApril 2017, we learned only about one victim of xenophobic violence, a Kyrgyznative in the Novosibirsk region. Intotal since the start of the year, at least 13 people have suffered fromracially motivated violence, of which three victims died.