In the Arkhangelsk region, a 58-year-old resident of Plesetsk received a year of probation for xenophobic and religious insults to a developer and a team of workers. In October 2017, the Plesetsk District Court sentenced a 58-year-old resident of the Plesetsk District of the Arkhangelsk Region under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting ethnic hatred).

In Kirov, a minor was fined 25,000 rubles for xenophobic publications on the Internet. On October 11, 2017, the Leninsky District Court of Kirov sentenced the minor under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting ethnic hatred) to a fine of 25 thousand with an installment plan of 10 months.

PACE calls on the Russian government to put an end to the persecution of religious minorities. On October 13, 2017, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a declaration on freedom of religion in Russia. The declaration was signed by 28 deputies from 14 European states.

In Novosibirsk, the court deprived a Catholic priest - US citizen of a residence permit in Russia, accusing him of providing false information about yourself. On October 16, 2017 in Novosibirsk, the district court annulled residence permit of the Catholic priest Janez Andrew Sever, citizen USA. Janez Andrei Sever has lived in Russia since the early 1990s and heads the center of spiritual development "Inigo". In 2014, his residence permit was extended until 2019.

In Vladivostok, the office of the Mormons was searched in the case of impeding the conduct of a preliminary investigation. believers regard it as pressure on the organization. October 12, 2017 at the office of The Church of Jesus Christ of Saints last days (Mormons) in Vladivostok was searched. Police operatives and investigators of the Frunze Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the ICR in Primorsky Krai rewrote office equipment and retired.

The Presidium of the Sverdlovsk Regional Court approved the sentence for the Yekaterinburg blogger. October 16 In 2017, the Presidium of the Sverdlovsk Regional Court dismissed the cassation appeal of the Yekaterinburg blogger Ruslan Sokolovsky against his sentence. " During the verification of judicial acts, the arguments of the lawyer about the violation of the norms of substantive and procedural law by lower courts were not confirmed, " the regional court noted.

In the Vladimir region, the court fined a resident of the city of Vyazniki for the song of the Grotto and 25/17 group on the VKontakte social network. In October 2017, the Vyaznikovsky District Court of the Vladimir Region fined a local resident under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (distribution of prohibited materials). According to the case file, in mid-2013, a local resident Sh.

In Volgograd, the district administration went to court to to order the legal organization of Jehovah's Witnesses to demolish the building, but the court found that this is not a matter of his competence. On October 13, 2017 it became known that the Arbitration Court Volgograd region refused to accept the claim of the Krasnooktyabrsky administration district on the demolition of a residential building on Aeroflotovskaya Street.

In Kirovo-Chepetsk, a criminal case was brought to court against a local resident for anti-Caucasian and anti-Semitic pictures on the VKontakte social network. In October 2017, Kirovo-Chepetsk approved the indictment in the case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred or enmity).

In the village of Lebyazhye, Vyborgsky District, Leningrad Region, vandals painted a swastika on a memorial sign installed at the site of the battles near the village of Kuuterselkya. In October 2017, in the village of Lebyazhye, Vyborgsky District, unknown vandals desecrated a memorial sign erected at the site of the battles near the village of Kuuterselkya. The monument was doused with red paint and painted on it with a swastika.

Andrey Voronin has been brought to justice for displaying Nazi symbols. October 13, 2017 Stavropol District Court Samara region fined a thousand rubles under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (propaganda or demonstration of Nazi symbols) of a resident of the village of Yagodnoye Stavropolsky district, Orthodox activist Andrey Voronin. The reason was that Voronin published on his page in "VKontakte" post from the public "Pre-revolutionary Russia".

Two residents of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky considered blasphemous caricature of Poklonskaya and Nicholas II and complained to the prosecutor's office. On October 16, 2017, it became known that two residents Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky appealed to the prosecutor's office, the police and the investigative committee with a statement requesting that a cartoonist be prosecuted Denis Lopatin. The applicants demand that proceedings be brought against him under Art.

Sentenced in Tomsk for publishing anti-Muslim articles VKontakte materials. On October 13, 2017, it became known about the entry into force sentence handed down by the Sovetsky District Court of Tomsk to a local resident of K., who was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (actions aimed at inciting hatred and enmity, as well as humiliating the dignity of a group of persons on the basis of attitude towards religion, committed using the Internet).

In the Murmansk region, a prisoner in the colony in Murmashy was fined for a tattoo with a swastika on his shoulder. In October 2017, in the Murmansk region, the Kola District Court fined under Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (propaganda and public display of Nazi symbols) of a prisoner of the Murmashin colony N 18. According to the prosecutor's office, one of the convicts was tattooed by a cellmate with a swastika on his back.