The ICR reported on the completion of the investigation into the case of a 45-year-old follower of Jehovah's Witnesses from Vladivostok. On June 13, 2019, the investigative department of the Russian Investigative Committee for the Primorsky Territory announced the completion of the investigation and the transfer to court of the criminal case of a 45-year-old resident of Vladivostok, accused under Part 1 of Art.

Jehovah's Witness from Orel will pay a large fine under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code. On June 13, 2019, the Oryol Regional Court upheld the sentence against Jehovah's Witness Sergei Skrynnikov, who was convicted under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (participation in the activities of an extremist organization). On April 1, the Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Orel sentenced Skrynnikov to a fine of 350,000 rubles.

​We are publishing a commentary by Ksenia Sergazina, associate professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities and an expert at the SOVA Center, dedicated to the patriarch’s last speech - about how important it is for the Church to establish a dialogue with young people. Speaking at a meeting of the Supreme Church Council on June 13, 2019, Patriarch Kirill once again - but very carefully - spoke on the topic of protests in Yekaterinburg.

Patriarch Kirill fears that teenagers who have left the Church will become carried away by the protest movement. On June 13, 2019, Patriarch Kirill, speaking at a meeting of the Supreme Church Council, raised the topic of the need to work in churches with teenagers, including so that they do not get carried away by the protest movement. “ I’m talking about all this precisely because caring for older children, youth, and young people in general should be an absolute priority for us ,” he said.

Thefollowing is our review of the primary and most representative events in themisuse of Russia’s anti-extremist legislation in May 2019. Lawmaking A package of bills, introducedin the State Duma in mid-May, seeks to criminalize dissemination of informationthat can facilitate the imposition of sanctions against the Russian state,citizens or organizations.

The Omsk Regional Court overturned the decision on the fine under Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses for publishing parody videos on a social network. On June 14, 2019, the Omsk Regional Court overturned the decision of the Pervomaisky District Court of Omsk, which fined designer Ilya Frishman under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 (public display of Nazi symbols). The proceedings have been terminated.

In Kazan, K. Sibagatullin and A. Nurullin attacked a man of non-traditional sexual orientation. K. Sibagatullin and A. Nurullin were going to decide to go to a dating site "for people of non-traditional orientation" and get to know the young man in order to "ask about his They wrote an announcement and made an appointment.