In Yekaterinburg, the investigation of the case under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code, under which four local nationalists were searched in December last year. On April 22, 2019, it became known that in Yekaterinburg the investigation closed the criminal case initiated under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred). This is probably due to the partial decriminalization of the charge article.

M. Kurdzhiev fined under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses for keeping a collection of prayers, which, in our opinion, is illegal. On December 21, 2018, the Ust-Dzhegutinsky District Court of Karachay-Cherkessia was held liable under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (storage of extremist materials for the purpose of mass distribution) M. Kurdzhieva. He was sentenced to a fine of 3 thousand rubles with confiscation of the subject of the offense.

In the Irkutsk Region, a court invalidated an agreement to donate a land plot and a building of Jehovah's Witnesses to the Swedish community. On December 28, 2018, it became known that the Usolsky City Court of the Irkutsk Region invalidated the contract of donation of the land plot and building of the Witnesses Jehovah in Usolye-Siberian Swedish community of Jehovah's Witnesses. The contract was concluded on January 21, 2017.

In Krasnoyarsk, the Investigative Committee stopped the criminal prosecution of Alexei Sverdlov due to the lack of corpus delicti. On December 28, 2018, it became known that in Krasnoyarsk the Investigative Committee closed the criminal case of a law student Alexei Sverdlov, who was accused under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred). The decision of the Investigative Committee is connected with the absence of corpus delicti in the acts of Sverdlov.

SERB and NOD activists provoked the participants of the Moscow action "Assembly of Citizens Outraged by the Actions of the Authorities". On December 16, 2018, an uncoordinated protest rally "A meeting of citizens outraged by the actions of the authorities" took place in Moscow near the FSB building.

Vladimir Putin approved amendments to the Criminal Code and the Penal Code, allowing sending some of those convicted of terrorist crimes to prisons instead of colonies, as well as arbitrarily transferring prisoners suspected of promoting terrorism among inmates to other regions.

We are publishing the abstracts of the report by Ksenia Sergazina, associate professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities and expert at the SOVA Center, read at a round table in Tambov on December 26, 2018.

December 26 2018 in Tambov, a round table "Topical issues State-Confessional Relations in Modern Russia”, organized by Information and analytical center "Sova" together with the Center religious studies and ethno-political studies of Leningrad State University. A.S. Pushkin. IN The event was attended by religious scholars, historians of religion and sociologists of religion, lawyers, journalists, representatives of religious organizations of the Tambov region.

On December 27, 2018, the president approved amendments to the Criminal Code and the Administrative Code. On December 27, 2018, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed two laws on partial decriminalization of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (incitement to hatred) by introducing a mechanism of administrative prejudice.

In Ivanteevka, an administrative case was initiated on illegal missionary work under Part 3 of Art. 5.26 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. On December 27, 2018, it became known that a administrative case under Part 3 of Art.