Polish journalist Tomas Maciejczuk has been banned from entering Russia until 2048. On May 2, 2018, Polish journalist and radical blogger Tomasz Maciejczuk was banned from entering Russia for a period of 30 years. He was also warned about criminal liability for illegal crossing of the state border of Russia. Matseychuk received a notification of a ban on entry into Russia at Moscow's Domodedovo airport. According to the Polish journalist, he flies back to Germany.

In the Voronezh region, a local resident was fined for an audio recording in the VKontakte social network. In April 2018, the Ramonsky District Court fined a local resident (born in 1995) under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (dissemination of extremist materials).

In Veliky Ustyug, a local resident was fined for using a swastika on a social network. In April 2018, the Veliky Ustyug City Court fined a local resident under Part 1 of Art.

In the Krasnodar Territory, a case against a 73-year-old member of the "Spiritual and Ancestral Power of Rus'" association was submitted to the court. In July 2018, it became known that in the Krasnodar Territory, a criminal investigation was completed against Nikolai Lozinsky, a 73-year-old resident of the Starominsk District, accused under Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code (participation in an extremist organization). The case was opened in April 2018.

In the Irkutsk region, a 22-year-old resident of Usolye-Sibirskoye was convicted for audio files on the social network. At the end of April 2018, the Usolsky City Court convicted a 22-year-old resident of Usolye-Sibirskoye, who in March 2016 posted extremist audio files on his page in the public domain on a social networking site. At the hearing, the defendant agreed with the charges brought against him and repented of his deed.

On April 25, 2018, the Ust-Abakansky District Court fined a prisoner from one of the colonies for a video posted on a social network. On April 25, 2018, the Ust-Abakansky District Court fined under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (mass distribution of extremist materials) for 1,000 rubles of a 33-year-old resident of the village of Kalinino, who was serving a sentence in PKU IK-35. by a court decision it was recognized as extremist.

The St. Petersburg City Court upheld the decision to confiscate the complex of buildings of Jehovah's Witnesses in Solnechnoye in favor of the state. May 3 2018, the St. Petersburg City Court upheld the decision of the Sestroretsk District court, according to which the complex of 14 buildings of Jehovah's Witnesses in Solnechny, which the religious organization has owned since 2000 is confiscated in favor of the state.

On May 1, 2018, May Day marches of the ultra-right, traditionally called "Russian May Day", took place in several cities of the country. For the first time in many years, not a single May Day celebration was held in Moscow. marches of nationalists, although attempts were made to organize it. In Moscow, he planned his procession hold the Committee "Nation and Freedom", together with the "Black Bloc", the Association of the People's Resistance (ANS) and National Revolutionary Vanguard (NRA).

HRC experts put forward a number of significant claims to the text of the bill by Boyarsky and Alshevsky and recommended that the Duma reject it.

We publish an overview of the main and most significant events in the field of misuse of anti-extremist legislation in Russia in April 2018. Rulemaking In April, a new version of the bill by deputies Sergei Boyarsky and Andrei Alshevsky (United Russia) on combating illegal information in social networks was submitted to the State Duma and adopted in the first reading. The bill introduces a new concept of "public network owner".