A resident of Penza was sentenced to 4 years in prison for publishing in social networks of calls for violence motivated by religious and national hatred, and Also for threatening to kill. On September 18, 2018, it became known that a resident of Penza 1997 year of birth convicted under Part 1 of Art.

The charges against one of the convicts were reviewed, and the terms of imprisonment were reduced for all three. On September 4, 2018, the Supreme Court of Bashkortostan reviewed the sentence of three residents of the republic accused of involvement in the activities banned Islamic religious movement Tablighi Jamaat.

The State Duma introduces penalties for systematic evasion of court requirements to remove and refute information. On September 18, 2018, the State Duma of Russia adopted in the second reading two bills that provide for tougher liability for non-execution of court decisions on the removal and refutation of information. On September 20 they were adopted in the third reading.

Based on the complaint of an Orthodox woman, due to a conflict with daughter who complained to the patriarch about the Adventists, in the Bryansk region for "illegal" missionary work fined an Adventist elder who is not a leader of a religious groups. In September 2018, it became known that on April 20, 2018 the world court of the Surazh judicial district of the Bryansk region recognized Adventist presbyter Oleg Korban guilty under Part 4 of Art. 5.26.

In September 2018, in the city of Sterlitamak, Republic of Bashkortostan, a 51-year-old local resident was sentenced to 1 year in prison on probation for publishing anti-Semitic and Nazi materials on a social network. In September 2018, in the city of Sterlitamak, Republic of Bashkortostan, a verdict was passed in the case of inciting ethnic and religious hatred (Part 1, Article 282 of the Criminal Code).

In September 2018, in the city of Tolyatti, Samara Region, the 64-year-old head of the local nationalist organization "Community of the Indigenous Russian People" (OKRN), Viktor Permyakov, was detained, who is suspected of attempting to organize contract killings of 4 people (part 1 of article 30 of the Criminal Code, paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code). "a, b, g, h" part 2 of article 105 of the Criminal Code), who testified against him at the trial in the case of xenophobic propaganda.

Leader of a local Muslim religious organization in the city of Zarechny, Penza region, was fined, and the activities of the organization suspended by a court decision for 30 days due to the fact that the premises organizations were found 5 publications included in the Federal List extremist literature. August 28, 2018 Zarechensky City Court of Penza region suspended for 30 days the activities of the local Muslim religious organization, and its chairman, R.

The following is ourreview of the primary and most representative events in the misuse of Russia’santi-extremist legislation in August 2018. Lawmaking In earlyAugust, the Ministry of Communications issued for public discussion a draftamendment of the Federal Law on Information.