In Syktyvkar, a case was brought to court against an 18-year-old young man for xenophobic texts, drawings and audio files on the VKontakte social network. In December 2017, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Komi completed the investigation of the criminal case of an 18-year-old resident of Syktyvkar, accused of Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting ethnic hatred and enmity).

The prosecutor's office approved the indictment in the case of the poet from Krom. On December 4, 2017, in the prosecutor's office of the Kromsky district of the Oryol region, local poet Alexander Byvshev, accused under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred) for the publication of the poem "For the Independence of Ukraine", handed a copy of the indictment. The case has been sent to court.

The Cheboksary police did not like the picture with the swastika posted by Vyacheslav Rybakov. On December 4, 2017, in Cheboksary, the court returned to the police the case initiated against local activist Vyacheslav Rybakov under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (public display of Nazi symbols). Rybakov was detained the day before.

In October, a court in Naberezhnye Chelny liquidated the Union of Churches of Christians of the Evangelical Republic Tatarstan”, without informing the organization. Arriving unannounced and seeing a lock on the doors of the building, the prosecutor's office filed a lawsuit to liquidate the organization as inactive.

In Khabarovsk, a case has been opened against four young people for organizing and participating in an extremist community. The suspects have been detained. On December 7, 2017, they were arrested. In December 2017, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Khabarovsk Territory initiated a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282.1 of the Criminal Code (organization of an extremist community), part 2 of Art.

In Russia, a court arrested in absentia the leader of the Pan-Slavic National Volunteer Association" and the leader of the organization "White Cross" Oleksandr Valov, who joined the "Right Sector". organizations. In December 2017, the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation issued a decision to bring Alexander Valov as a defendant under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (participation in the activities of an extremist organization).

In Omsk, a 20-year-old local resident received a two and a half year suspended sentence for anti-Caucasian materials on a social network. In December 2017, the Leninsky District Court of Omsk delivered a verdict in the criminal case of a 20-year-old local resident. He was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred and enmity), part 2 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremist activities).

The forbidden symbols were found in a post about the poor quality of roads in Russia. On December 4, 2017, it became known that an administrative case under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (public display of Nazi symbols). On the same day, Romanchev was fined 1,000 rubles. As follows from the published materials, the offense was revealed by the detective of the CPE of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Murmansk region.

We publish an overview of the main and most significant events in the field of illegal application of anti-extremist legislation in Russia in November 2017. Rulemaking On November 14, the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation adopted an ordinance clarifying certain aspects of the law on the protection of interests children in resolving disputes related to them.