The following is our review of the primary and most representativeevents in the misuse of Russia’s anti-extremist legislation in March 2019. Lawmaking In March, a package oflaws targeting fake news and online expression of obvious disrespect toward thesociety, the state and public officials was passed by the parliament and signedby the president.

In Yekaterinburg, journalist Rinat Nizamov, who participated in protests against the construction of the temple began to receive threats. April 9, 2019 Yekaterinburg journalist, director several city portals, Rinat Nizamov turned to the police with a statement about threats that came to him after his speech at a rally against construction of a temple in the park near the Drama Theater on April 7. Threats began to come after the publications of local blogger Sergei Kolyasnikov.

20 residents of Yekaterinburg went to court, challenging the legality of allocating a site for the construction of a temple in the square near the Drama Theater. On April 10, 2019, it became known that a group of residents Yekaterinburg appealed to the Sverdlovsk Regional Court with a lawsuit challenging the legality of allocating a site for the construction of a temple near the Drama Theater.