In February, the court, due to the lack of corpus delicti, stopped case against the Vladivostok "Center of Societies for Krishna Consciousness". Organization was accused of discrimination because of a sign on the door allowing entry only followers of Vaishnavism. In March 2018, it became known that on February 21, the justice of the peace of the section No.

On March 11, 2018, in St. Petersburg, a passer-by attacked an activist of the Solidarity movement, who was standing with the flag of Ukraine in a single picket in support of Denis Bakholdin. On March 11, 2018, an attack occurred on an activist of the Solidarity movement, Vsevolod Nelaev, in St. Petersburg. According to Nelaev, the incident occurred when he was standing in a single picket on Anichkov Bridge with a Ukrainian flag and a poster “Freedom for political prisoner Denis Bakholdin!

In March 2018, it became known that in the city of Zheleznogorsk, Kursk Region, to 3.5 years in prison sentenced a 25-year-old local resident found guilty of publishing a racist slide on a social network and a robbery attack on a taxi driver. In March 2018, it became known that in the city of Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, a verdict was passed in the case of inciting ethnic hatred (part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code) and robbery taxi driver (Article 162 of the Criminal Code).

The following is our review of the primary and most representativeevents in the misuse of Russia’s anti-extremist legislation in February 2018. Lawmaking On February 7, 2018, the Supreme Court of Russia introducedin the State Duma an extensive bill to amend the procedural codes. It includeschanges to the procedures that pertain to court cases related to recognizingmaterials as extremist or recognizing information as banned.

A resident of Barnaul was sentenced to a year in prison under Part 1.1 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code. On March 7, 2018 it became known that Zheleznodorozhny the district court of Barnaul sentenced a foreign citizen under Part 1.1 of Art. 282.2 CC (involvement of a person in the activities of an extremist organization) by 1 year imprisonment in a penal colony.

On March 7, 2018, in St. Petersburg, the court delivered a verdict on the case of the beating of two Yemeni citizens, an ideologically motivated pogrom on cemetery and robbery. March 7, 2018 Vasileostrovskiy District Court of St. Petersburg delivered a verdict against five local residents Oleg Trofimov, Alexander Alenichev, Pavel Gostinetsky and two minors Sh. and P. According to the case file, on April 7, 2017 Trofimov, Alenichev, Sh.

The court fined a resident of Mordovia 50 thousand rubles for inciting religious hatred on VKontakte. February 27, 2018 Lyambirsky District Court of the Republic Mordovia passed a guilty verdict on a 26-year-old native of the village of Lyambir. He found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of hatred on the grounds relation to religion).

March 12, 2018 in Moscow to 160 court sentenced leader of far-right Black Bloc movement to hours of compulsory work Vladimir Ratnikov, found guilty of publishing neo-Nazi songs in social network "VKontakte". In July 2018, the Moscow City Court, having considered the appeal against the verdict, left it unchanged. In April 2019, the sentence was overturned on the basis of the decriminalization of the charge article.

In Kemerovo, a court fined a local resident 1,000 rubles, finding him guilty of publishing a banned song on a social network. In March 2018, it became known that an administrative case was initiated in Kemerovo under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (distribution of prohibited materials).