There are new cases of violation of the rights of Jehovah's Witnesses, including the interrogation of children from believing families. At the beginning of April 2020, new cases of violations became known rights of Jehovah's Witnesses. March 30, 2020 in Volchansk, Sverdlovsk region "under pretext for treatment against coronavirus," the police searched the Zalyaevs' house. Parents and two minor children were kept undressed in the corridor, having been taken away they have phones.

On April 1, 2020 (April 6 on the website), the federal list of extremist materials was updated. The list was supplemented by a racist audio recording. Update of the Federal List of Extremist Materials dated April 1, 2020 5018. An audio recording entitled "Calvados - Primates" lasting from 4 minutes 55 seconds to 4 minutes 58 seconds, beginning with the words "Herds of black ...

In Magadan, Muslim migrants who attended Friday prayers in a mosque will be deprived of their patents and sent back to their homeland. April 7 2020, it became known that in Magadan, Muslim migrants who visited Friday prayers in the mosque, despite the regime of self-isolation, will be deprived of patents and will be sent home. This decision was made by the governor of the Magadan region.

In St. Petersburg, an unknown man tried to set fire to the building of the church of Evangelical Christians-Baptists. April 8 2020 in St. Petersburg, an unknown man tried to set fire to the church building Evangelical Christian Baptists on Bolshaya Ozernaya, 27. By preliminary information, the man set fire to jars of liquid, put them in backpack and threw it out the window. The glass was damaged, but the building did not catch fire. Sources In St.

In St. Petersburg, a vandal was arrested for writing “COVID-19 is our new Jesus” on the wall of the church. On April 8, 2020, he was detained in St. Petersburg vandal, March 29, 2020, scribbled on the walls of the Church of the Annunciation on the 8th line Vasilyevsky island. The following inscriptions were found on the church: “There is no God, there is only money" and "COVID-19 is our new Jesus." Sources Video: a young man paints a St. Petersburg church with the new god of COVID-19.

​The following is our monthly review of instances ofxenophobia and radical nationalism, along with any government countermeasures,for March 2020. In March2020, SOVA Center became aware of a minimum four victims of hate-motivatedattacks, in Moscow and St. Petersburg. According to our data, for this year sofar in total, that makes no fewer than 10 individuals targeted with hate- orideologically-motivated violence, in incidents that took place in Moscow andSt. Petersburg.

The Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Belarus refused Russia's request to extradite a Jehovah's Witness accused under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code. On April 7, 2020, the General Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Belarus refused to extradite Jehovah's Witness Nikolai Makhalichev to Russia. He was released from custody, according to the Belarusian human rights organization Human Constanta.

In June 2022, a verdict was handed down in the case of creating a terrorist community with a nationalist bias in the city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk . On June 8, 2022, the 1st Eastern District Military Court delivered a verdict in the case against two of the three defendants in the case of creating a terrorist community and participating in it (Article 205.4 of the Criminal Code). In the dock were 40-year-old Alexander Kozin and 28-year-old Arseniy Lesnoy.

The FOM has released public opinion poll data regarding the observance of Lent. On March 31, 2020, the FOM published opinion poll data regarding the observance of Lent. The survey was conducted on March 21-22, 2020 year, it was attended by 1500 respondents from 104 settlements of Russia. Survey participants were asked several questions with fixed response options. For example, do you consider yourself a believer person and what religion you belong to.