On December 27, 2018, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a package of laws on the partial decriminalization of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity) by introducing a mechanism of administrative prejudice. A new article was added to the Code of Administrative Offenses. 20.3.1, the disposition of which coincides with Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code. Cases under Part 1 of Art.

The Supreme Court of the republic stopped the persecution of Arkady Hakobyan. March 1, 2019 Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria closed the criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting religious hatred) in regarding a seventy-year-old pensioner from the city of Prokhladny, Arkadi Akopyan, who was convicted of distributing banned brochures of Jehovah's Witnesses. It was closed on the basis of partial decriminalization of the article.

In Kurilsk and Reydovo, police and FSB officers searched the homes of members of the Jehovah's Witnesses community. February 25, 2019 in Kurilsk and Reidov (Sakhalin region) police and FSB officers searched Olga's house Kalinnikova and Larisa Potapova, members of the community of Jehovah's Witnesses.

The State Duma has received dozens of amendments to the packages of bills on false information and indecent behavior on the Internet; among others, the State Duma Committee on Information Policy has submitted its amendments, and the Secretary of the Plenum of the Supreme Court, Viktor Momotov, has proposed to stipulate additional protection of the authority of judges within the framework of one of the bills.

The Russian Orthodox Church was given ownership of the buildings of the Shamorda Monastery in the Kaluga Region. March 1, 2019 it became known that the Russian the Orthodox Church were transferred to the ownership of the buildings of the Shamorda monastery in Kaluga region. The monastery complex includes 22 buildings. Recall that the monastery was closed in 1923, renewed in 1990, the last building was vacated for monastic needs in 1996 year.

In Nizhny Novgorod, experts from the Research Institute for Problems of Social Management conducted a survey, the main topic of which was the construction of religious buildings in parks. On February 26, 2019, in Nizhny Novgorod, experts from the Research Institute for Social Management Problems conducted a survey, the main topic of which was the construction of religious buildings in parks, squares and other places of recreation. The survey involved 1,200 respondents.

In February In 2019, attacks motivated by ethnic or ideological hatred affected at least four people in Moscow. Total since the beginning of the year, according to our reported that 1 person died and 6 people were injured or beaten from such violence in three regions of the country. IN In February, the topic of threats from the ultra-right came to the fore.

On December 27, 2018, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a package of laws on the partial decriminalization of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (incitement of hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity) by introducing a mechanism of administrative prejudice. A new article was added to the Code of Administrative Offences. 20.3.1 , the disposition of which coincides with Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code. Cases under Part 1 of Art.

On December 27, 2018, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a package of laws on the partial decriminalization of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity) by introducing a mechanism of administrative prejudice. A new article was added to the Code of Administrative Offenses. 20.3.1 , the disposition of which coincides with Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code. Cases under Part 1 of Art.

An appropriate working group should be set up in the near future. March 1, 2019 became it is known that on February 5 in the office of Tatiana, Commissioner for Human Rights Moskalkova, it was decided to create a working group to prepare proposals for improving the legislation on criminal liability for the continuation of the activities of organizations recognized as terrorist.