It is proposed to remove from Art. 282 of the Criminal Code, the words about "any social group", judged by part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code, only repeatedly during the year brought to administrative responsibility, and for humiliation of dignity in general, punish only in an administrative manner. The Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia, Tatyana Moskalkova, sent amendments to the presidential package of bills on the partial decriminalization of Art.

Decisions to punish the Chuvash lawyer and oppositionist were appealed to the ECtHR. On December 5, 2018, it became known that the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) registered the complaints of two residents of Chuvashia - lawyer Yuri Ivanov and oppositionist Alexander Urusov, who were prosecuted under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (public display of Nazi symbols). This was announced by lawyer Alexei Glukhov. .

At the suit of the prosecutor's office, the court recognized the transfer transaction as void property of Jehovah's Witnesses in Kansk of the Portuguese organization and confiscated a residential house and plot in favor of the state.

We publish a review the main and most significant developments in the field of misuse anti-extremist legislation in Russia in November 2018. Rulemaking In mid-November, the State Duma adopted in the first reading the presidential package of bills on partial decriminalization of art. 282 of the Criminal Code (excitation hatred or enmity). It provides for the introduction of a mechanism for administrative prejudice to Part 1 of Art.

The ECtHR Court of Appeal will not hear the Pussy Riot case. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rejected Russia's request to transfer to the Grand Chamber Pussy Riot's complaint about persecution for speaking at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. The decision on the complaint "Maria Alyokhina and Others v. Russia" was issued by the ECtHR in July 2018. It found that there had been a violation of the provisions of Art.

In December 2018, it became known that in the Republic of Buryatia a court sentenced a local a resident found guilty of publishing xenophobic articles on the Internet and posts. In December 2018, it became known that in the Republic of Buryatia the court delivered a verdict in the case of initiating a national and religious hatred (part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code).

A resident of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky became a suspect under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code. On December 4, 2018, the investigative department of the Russian Investigative Committee for the Kamchatka Territory announced the initiation of a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (organization of the activities of an extremist organization) in relation to a resident of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

Bryansk lawyer demands initiation of a criminal case in connection with installation of a Hanukkah menorah in the city square, and also wants to check Torah and Talmud for signs of extremism. On December 3, 2018, it became known that the Bryansk lawyer Sergei Maslov appealed to the local Ministry of Internal Affairs with a demand to initiate a criminal case in connection with the installation of the menorah on the Partizan city square.

The court fined a resident of Tatarstan a thousand rubles who published a video with the ISIS flag on VKontakte. On November 22, 2018, the Vysokogorsky District Court of Tatarstan, a local resident Kh. Akhmetshin, was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 Administrative Code Russian Federation (propaganda or public demonstration of paraphernalia and symbols of extremist organizations).

Speaker of the Legislative Assembly Vladimir Makarov said that in the park Malinovka still the temple will be built. The city government has other plans. December 5, 2018 Legislative Assembly Petersburg rejected amendments to the law on green spaces in general use relating to Malinovka Park. It was about the proposal of the deputy Boris Vishnevsky to include part of this park in the list of such plantations.