In December 2018, as a result of racist and ideologically motivated attacks injured three people in the Volgograd and Kaluga regions. In total, according to our data as of the end of December, in 2018 from such attacks in 10 regions of Russia killed 4 people and at least 52 were injured. We must once again emphasize that these and other data for the year are purely preliminary, and it is still premature to compare them with data for previous years.

The police seized 50,000 leaflets printed by environmental activists. On December 28, 2018, in Arkhangelsk, police officers seized a circulation of leaflets from the movement "Pomorye is not a garbage dump" with an appeal to take part in the All-Russian day of environmental protest on February 3, 2019. As the police explained, they received a signal about the storage of extremist materials, so the leaflets found will be sent for examination. 50,000 leaflets were confiscated.

The Babushkinsky District Court of Moscow reviewed the case of neo-Nazi Maxim Martsinkevich and again sentenced him to 10 years in prison. On December 29, 2018, the Babushkinsky District Court of Moscow found neo-Nazi Maxim Martsinkevich (Tesak) guilty under Part 2 of Art. 162 of the Criminal Code (robbery by a group of persons) and part 2 of Art. 213 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism by a group of persons) and sentenced him to 10 years in prison in a strict regime colony.

Muscovites are outraged by the construction of a motorway in the South-West of Moscow, during which it is planned to demolish a wooden church in Stary Belyaev, a Sunday school building, a sports hall and a missionary center. On December 22, 2018, it became known that Orthodox Muscovites were outraged by the construction of a highway in the South-West of Moscow, during which it is planned to demolish the wooden church of St.

We publish an overview of the main and most significant events in the field of misuse of anti-extremist legislation in Russia in December 2018. Rulemaking On December 27, 2018, the President signed a package of laws on the partial decriminalization of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred or enmity). It provides for the introduction of a mechanism of administrative prejudice to Part 1 of Art.