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.

The following brief review covers the most important legislativeinnovations and the law enforcement statistics in the period from January to August2019. Our review is limited only to the part of the legislation and lawenforcement practice that we see as leading to an excessive restriction ofcivil liberties. Lawmaking In July 2019, Russiaratified the Convention of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) on CounteringExtremism, signed in Astana in 2017.

In October it became known about the second case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Kostroma. The suspect is Dmitry Terebilov. On October 5, 2019, Jehovah's Witnesses reported that a criminal case under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (participation in the activities of an extremist organization) in relation to Dmitry Terebilov (b. 1980). The case was opened on June 13, 2019. Terebilov is in the status of a suspect.

Residents of St. Petersburg began collecting signatures for the renaming of Lakhtinskaya Street into Xenia Petersburgskaya Street. On October 7, 2019, it became known that the residents of St. started collecting signatures for renaming Lakhtinskaya street to Xenia street Petersburg. The initiators of the renaming were parishioners of the same name church on Lakhtinskaya street. Collected 400 signatures.

In the Perm Territory, two criminal cases under Art. 280 of the Criminal Code, which were initiated in connection with the publication of xenophobic materials with calls for violence on a social network. In October 2019, it became known that two criminal cases were initiated in the Perm Territory under Part 2 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremism).

In October 2019, it became known that two local residents suspected of xenophobic attacks would be tried in Omsk. In November 2019, the verdict was handed down in the case. In October 2019, it became known that a criminal case had been initiated in Omsk over two attacks motivated by hatred. It is reported that the case was initiated against 19-year-old welder A. Zhurov and 19-year-old college student V. Petrovsky.