After interrogations, the believers were sent to a temporary detention center for 48 hours. May 16, 2019 in Volgograd were detained by employees Five followers of Jehovah's Witnesses were brought to the building of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for the Volgograd Region for interrogation by the FSB and the police: Ivan Valkovsky, Igor Egozaryan, Sergey Melnik, Vyacheslav Osipov, Valery Rogozin. All of them were then placed in isolation.

Construction of a temple near the Drama Theater in Yekaterinburg suspended pending a survey on the attitude of city residents to the temple at this place. May 16, 2019 Head of Yekaterinburg Alexander Vysokinsky announced the suspension of the construction of the temple in the square near the Drama Theater until conducting a survey on the attitude of citizens to this construction. Vysokinsky said that the authorities decided to carry out precisely a poll rather than a referendum as it is faster.

Lyubov Kudryashova was fined for publicly calling for terrorism. In May 2019, it became known that a criminal case had been opened in Kurgan under Part 2 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremism on the Internet) and Part 2 of Art. 205.2 of the Criminal Code (public calls for terrorism on the Internet). The suspect is a local resident Lyubov Kudryashova, a supporter of the Movement for the Restoration of the Rights of Citizens of the USSR.

"People's Resistance Association" posted on the gate the patriarchal residence in Moscow, a banner demanding "apologize for the ECB" and bombarded the area with smoke bombs. The police came to one of the activists. On May 16, 2019, activists of the nationalist organization " Association of People's resistance " hung out on the gates of the patriarchal residence in Chisty Lane in Moscow banner "Sorry for Ekb".

Alexander Solovyov is accused of participating in the activities of an extremist organization. May 6, 2019 In Perm, the investigation into the case of a follower of Jehovah's Witnesses Alexander was completed Solovyov. The charge was brought under Part 2 of Art.

We will recover the Russian version of the article written for Ponars Eurasia, as it was published by the Internet edition of Republic . In January 2019, for the first time in the history of Russian anti -extremist legislation, a mitigating amendment to it entered into force, namely, to the most famous article 282 of the Criminal Code on the initiation of hatred and humiliation of dignity in a number of group features.

On May 17, 2019 it became known that in Dalmatov and Shadrinsk Kurgan region, FSB officers conducted searches in mosques, a prayer house and dwellings of the followers of Salafism. Religious literature was confiscated during the searches. including those included in the Federal List of Extremist Materials, and weapon. In Shadrinsk, 77 copies of religious literature (12 of them recognized as extremist), as well as mobile phones, removable media information, notebooks and disks with sermons.

The court found a 29-year-old prisoner of IK-10 guilty under Art. 280 of the Criminal Code. On May 17, 2019, it became known that in the Tver region, the Kalininsky District Court found a 29-year-old prisoner of IK-10 guilty under Part 1 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremism). The court sentenced him to 1.5 years in prison - in total he will spend another 4.5 years in prison.