In Smolensk, a case was initiated under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code, four Jehovah's Witnesses were arrested. On April 25, 2019, three Jehovah's Witnesses were detained in Smolensk: 36-year-old Ruslan Korolev, 41-year-old Valery Shalev, and 60-year-old Viktor Malkov. The next day, the Leninsky District Court of Smolensk sent them under arrest for two months.

Due to the increase in the number of administrative cases under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (production and distribution of prohibited materials), we combine such cases into a single list for each month. On May 13, 2019, the Central District Court of Tula fined local resident A. Berezhnov 2,000 rubles for publishing the banned song "Smoke" by the ultra-right group "GROT".

Umida Egamurotova was killed in Uzlovaya. The suspect is her neighbor Andrey Kalinin, who insulted the woman and threatened her and her family for several months. On April 29, 2019, in the Tula region in the town of Uzlovaya, 33-year-old Umida Egamurotova was killed at her workplace in a store. On the same day, the police opened a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 105 of the Criminal Code (murder) and detained the suspect, 34-year-old Andrei Kalinin.

In Perm, a court arrested three young men suspected of a series of xenophobic attacks. On May 1, 2019, it became known that a court in Perm had arrested three students (all aged 18 to 19). According to media reports, all three were supporters of neo-Nazi ideology. Young people are suspected of attacks on foreign students and shop owners. Young people robbed their victims, and spent the money on the purchase of equipment for propaganda work.

In April 2019, the Judicial Department under the Supreme Court The Russian Federation published statistics on the application of Art. 5.26 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (violation legislation on freedom of conscience, freedom of religion and religious associations) in 2018. According to these data, 419 such cases. 250 persons were punished - 172 individuals and 78 legal entities. IN in most cases (243), fines were used as punishment.

In Magadan, a local resident is charged under Art. 280 of the Criminal Code. On May 6, 2019, it became known that a criminal case was initiated in Magadan under Part 2 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremism on the Internet). The suspect is a local resident who, according to investigators, published calls for xenophobic violence in WhatsApp groups. Details, unfortunately, are not reported.

Signed a law allowing educational institutions provide additional vocational education. On May 1, 2019, V. Putin signed the agreement adopted on April 16 State Duma and approved on April 22 by the Federation Council the law "On amendments to Article 19 of the Federal Law "On Freedom of Conscience and religious associations" and Article 87 of the Federal Law "On education in the Russian Federation".