A new criminal case has been initiated against Airat Dilmukhametov, who is in a pre-trial detention center. On April 29, 2019, the Kirovsky District Court of Ufa extended the term of detention of Airat Dilmukhametov, an activist of the Bashkir national movement, accused of publishing on the Internet calls to violate the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation (part 2 of article 280.1 of the Criminal Code).

After the partial decriminalization of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code in the Code of Administrative Offenses, a new article appeared - 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity). We collect the resolutions issued on it into a single list on a monthly basis.

Residents of the villages of Shumovka and Semyonovka in the Ulyanovsk region appealed to the prosecutor's office with a demand to check the legality of the sale of the building of the former Zemstvo school to the Muslim community.

An anti-sectarian story dedicated to the followers of the spiritual practice Falun Gong aired on channel 78 in St. Petersburg. April 28 2019 in St. Petersburg on the channel “78” there was a story dedicated to the followers of the spiritual practice “Falun Gong”, and consideration in the Nevsky District Court of St. Petersburg, the claim of the deputy prosecutor of the city for recognition extremist material in the collection Nine Commentaries on the Communist parties” (M., 2015).

Ryazan was fined under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses for possession of a banned satirical song "Christ the Savior Ensemble" on the social network. On April 30, 2019, the prosecutor's office of the Ryazan region reported that a resident of the region's capital was fined 1,000 rubles under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (mass distribution of extremist materials) for publishing a banned song on a social network. The corresponding ruling against a certain V.

The verdict in the case of eight convicted for organizing the activities of the banned Islamic movement "Tablighi Jamaat" and membership in it was left unchanged. On April 29, 2019, the Moscow City Court considered an appeal against the verdict against eight followers of the banned Islamic movement Tablighi Jamaat, who were convicted of chch. 1 and 2 Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (organization of the activities of an extremist organization or participation in it).

In April 2019, the SOVA Center was aware of one the deceased and three victims of attacks motivated by hate - in St. Petersburg, Vladivostok, Kursk and Cherepovets. Since the beginning of the year, as a result of violence motivated national or ideological hatred, 2 people were killed and not beaten less than 11 people in eight regions of the country.

The director of the Miass Medical College was fined under Art. 6.17 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. On April 30, 2019, the prosecutor's office of the Chelyabinsk region announced that by a decision of the justice of the peace, the director of the Miass Medical College was sentenced to a fine of 5 thousand rubles under part 1 of Art.

The anti-extremist legislation is a fairly broad, flexible toolkit that is well adapted to legal abuse; it is a striking example of what, early in Vladimir Putin’s tenure, was referred to as the “dictatorship of the law.” Recently, one of its elements has been softened—a rare, even unique development in a regime that has become increasingly harsh in recent years.