In Sevastopol, the court fined a Salafi imam for public calls for extremist activity. On October 23, 2019, it became known that Balaklavsky the district court of Sevastopol fined Imam Rustem Abilev, a 35-year-old native Uzbekistan, for 100 thousand rubles, having found him guilty under Part 1 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public calls for extremist activity).

In October 2019, the SOVA Center is aware of two victims of hate-motivated attacks. Since the beginning of the year, as a result violence motivated by national or ideological hatred were killed 5 people and beaten at least 33 people in 15 regions of the country. Two people received serious death threats.

Temple of the Intercession at Fili, previously shared Church and Museum of Andrei Rublev, transferred to the ownership of the Russian Orthodox Church. On October 30, 2019, it became known about the disposal of the Territorial Department of the Federal Property Management Agency in Moscow dated September 16, 2019 on the transfer to property of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Church of the Intercession in Fili on Novozavodskaya street.

We publish an overview of the main and most significant events in the field of misuse of anti-extremist legislation in Russia in October 2019. Rulemaking On October 1, the law on procedural reform, according to which cases on the recognition of materials as extremist and on the recognition information on the network prohibited for distribution on the territory of Russia were transferred from the sphere of civil legal proceedings to the sphere of administrative.

With regard to the minor Stepan L., a protocol was drawn up under Art. 20.3 on the display of Nazi symbols. November 1, 2019 a protocol was drawn up against a minor resident of Kursk, Stepan L. under Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (propaganda or demonstration of Nazi symbols). Stepan L.

A local resident is accused of publicly calling for xenophobic violence. On October 31, 2019, it became known that in Magadan the investigation of a criminal case under Part 2 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremism on the Internet).

Before the start of the trial of four Jehovah's Witnesses in Naberezhnye Chelny, a local online publication released defamatory material. One of the experts called for "getting rid of" Jehovah's Witnesses. October 31, 2019 Tatarstan online edition "Events" released a report on the upcoming trial of Jehovah's Witnesses from Naberezhnye Chelny Ilham Karimov, Vladimir Myakushin, Konstantin Matrashov and Aidara Yulmeteva. The report is replete with xenophobic and defamatory statements.