In May 2020, a case was brought to court in Perm against three local residents accused of applying graffiti calling for violence. In May 2020, the investigation of a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremism). Three local residents will soon be in the dock, who, according to law enforcement agencies, painted some xenophobic graffiti on a concrete fence along Chernyshevsky Street on the night of January 9-20, 2019.

In May 2020, in Moscow, the headquarters and homes of two activists of the nationalist organization Association of Popular Resistance were searched as part of an investigation into a certain economic matter. Several people were detained but later released as witnesses. On May 7, 2020, searches were carried out in Moscow at the headquarters of the nationalist organization Association of Popular Resistance (ANS) and in the homes of two activists, Liliya Osipova and Mikhail Pulin.

Due to the increase in the number of administrative cases under Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (propaganda and public demonstration of Nazi symbols and symbols of banned organizations), we combine such cases into a single list for each month. On May 22, 2020, the Kantemirovsky District Court of the Voronezh Region fined a local resident Denis Pavlovsky 1,000 rubles for publishing an image of Nazi symbols on a social network. Details, unfortunately, are unknown.

In May 2020, it became known that the prosecutor's office The Novosibirsk region demands to recognize as extremist the article published by the deacon of the Epiphany Church of Berdsk, Oleg Ryzhkov, published in 2015 year about radical Islam. In 2015, Fr. Oleg published in the magazine "Soul", of which he himself is the editor-in-chief, an article by a Coptic monk about radical Islam with its comments. The article angered one from the Krasnoyarsk muftis.

A 21-year-old local resident was found guilty under Art. 354.1 of the Criminal Code. On May 27, 2020, the Supreme Court of the Chuvash Republic found 21-year-old Leonid Labzin guilty under Part 1 of Art. 354.1 of the Criminal Code (rehabilitation of Nazism) and sentenced him to a fine of 30 thousand rubles.

The following is our review of the primary and most representative events in misuse of Russia's anti-extremist legislation in April 2020. Lawmaking In early April, the president signed two laws described in detail in our March review .

29 April 2020, the Sovetsky District Court of Crimea fined Imam Dilyaver Khalilov for organizing Friday prayers at the mosque in the village of Zavetnoe in mid-March. The court found him guilty under Part 2 of Art. 20.2 Administrative Code of the Russian Federation (organization or holding of a public event without filing in the prescribed order of notification of its holding) and imposed a fine of 30 thousand rubles.