The 35-year-old prisoner was sentenced to 14 years in prison for promoting terrorism, calling for extremism and recruiting into the Islamic State, a terrorist organization banned in Russia. On December 20, 2019, the Federal Security Service of Russia for the Irkutsk Region announced that the 1st Eastern District Military Court at an offsite session passed a sentence on a 35-year-old prisoner in one of the region's colonies.

Alexander Kotov is charged under Part 2 of Art. 213 of the Criminal Code. On December 20, 2019, it became known that a member Perm branch of the Libertarian Party of Russia Alexander Kotov was charged with hooliganism motivated by hostility (part 2 of article 213 of the Criminal Code). Recall that the reason for initiating the case was the installation, which appeared on one of the streets of Perm on November 11, 2018.

December 17, 2019 in St. Petersburg took place round table "Religious life in Russian regions and prevention religious extremism: a year later. More than 50 people became its participants: religious scholars, lawyers, human rights activists, representatives of religious and public organizations. The event was organized by the Russian Association Researchers of Religion, St. Petersburg Branch of the Russian Association religious freedom, St.

arbitration the court in Voronezh, on the suit of the Federal Property Management Agency, terminated the contract with the Lutheran parish on gratuitous use of the church, since the parish withdrew from the centralized religious organization. 19 December 2019, it became known that in Voronezh the arbitration court satisfied the claim of the territorial administration Rosimuschestvo to the Evangelical Lutheran parish of St.

The court upheld the conviction of Aleksey Miretsky, Roman Gridasov, Gennady German, Felix Makhammadiev, Alexei Budenchuk and Konstantin Bazhenov, who were sentenced to real terms of imprisonment. 20th of December 2019, the Saratov Regional Court upheld the guilty verdict issued by September 19, 2019 by the Leninsky District Court Saratov to six Jehovah's Witnesses who were found guilty under Part 1 Art.

December 20, 2019 at the annual diocesan meeting in Moscow Patriarch Kirill announced the statistics. According to them, in Moscow as of December 1, 2019 there are 1198 temples and chapels (19 more than a year ago), of which services at least once a week are held only in 526. There are 1826 clerics in the diocese (29 more than than in 2018): 33 bishops, 1372 priests and 421 deacons.

In the workshop, on an open shelf with a collection of antiquities, an envelope from the time of the Third Reich was found. December 4, 2019 Glazovsky District Court of Udmurtia fined a local resident Yuri Vladykin a thousand rubles under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 Code of Administrative Offenses for public display of Nazi symbols.