February 7, 2019 in the Federal list of extremist organizations published on the official website of the Ministry of Justice was one organization added: All-Russian political party "The Course of Truth and Unity".

Alexey Sychev was fined under Art. 354.1 of the Criminal Code, the court of second instance upheld the verdict. On April 13, 2020, it became known that in the Ivanovo region, the court of second instance upheld a fine of 100 thousand rubles, to which 31-year-old resident of the village of Palekh Alexei Sychev was sentenced under Part 1 of Art. 354.1 of the Criminal Code (rehabilitation of Nazism). The initiation of a criminal case became known in February 2019.

After the partial decriminalization of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code, a new article appeared in the Code of Administrative Offenses - 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses ( incitement of hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity). As in the case of other articles of the Code of Administrative Offenses that interest us, every month we collect the decisions made on it into a single list.

The following is our review of the primary and most representative events in the misuse of Russia’s anti-extremist legislation in January 2019. Lawmaking On January 24, the State Duma approved in first reading the packages of bills related to indecent behavior on the Internet and to “distribution of inaccurate socially significant information” (i.e. fake news).

In early February 2019, it became known that the Catholic community of Sevastopol has not yet been able to take ownership of the building of the former cinema, handed over to them in May 2018. The decision to transfer to the Catholic parish of St. Clement building temple, which was used in Soviet times as a children's cinema "Druzhba", the government of Sevastopol adopted in May 2018. At the beginning of February 2019 It turned out that officials are delaying the paperwork.

In Ulyanovsk, an investigator dropped the criminal case against Nikolai Tolubaev, who was accused of inciting ethnic hatred. On February 11, 2019, it became known that in Ulyanovsk the investigator stopped the criminal prosecution of 50-year-old Nikolai Tolubaev due to the lack of corpus delicti. The man was charged under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred).

February 5, 2019 District Arbitration Court West Siberian Arbitration District canceled the decision of the two previous instances that left the building of the former Catholic church in Barnaul in city ​​property. The case was sent to the Arbitration Court of the Altai Territory for new consideration.