On July 1, 2020, the Forty Forties movement held an anti-LGBT protest at the US Embassy in Moscow. Picketers, standing with their feet on the rainbow flag, held banners "Pederasts! Go home! and “Our country – our values”. IN The protest was attended by at least four people. Sources Based on social media.

A resident of the Kuvandyksky district of the Orenburg region was able to challenge court decisions holding her accountable for distributing Baptist literature without notice of the formation of a religious group. July 6, 2020 Sixth Court of Cassation General the jurisdiction of Samara left unchanged the decision of the court district No.

Residents of the Ubinsky district of the Novosibirsk region dissatisfied with the decision of the authorities to dismantle the monument to those who died in the war in order to build a temple on this site. At the end of June 2020, the administration of the Ubinsky district Novosibirsk region announced the upcoming demolition of the monument to the fallen in the years World War II in the village of Ubinskoe. It is planned to build on the site of the monument Orthodox church.

In Bryansk, a 19-year-old young man attacked a homeless man with a knife.

Residents of the village of Pavlovskaya are accused of participating in a banned organization of Jehovah's Witnesses. On June 23, 2020, the FSB of Russia for the Krasnodar Territory opened two new cases under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (participation in the activities of an extremist organization) in relation to Jehovah's Witnesses. The accused were 58-year-old Vladimir Skachidub and 39-year-old Maxim Beltikov from the village of Pavlovskaya.

The court fined the leader of the Baptist group in Troitsk for failure to notify the Ministry of Justice about the beginning of the activities of a religious group. On July 2, 2020, it became known that in Troitsk, Chelyabinsk region, the world court recognized the head of the religious group of Evangelical Christians-Baptists guilty under Part 4 of Art.

Lawyer of the Slavic Legal Center Sergey Chugunov filed a complaint with the Constitutional Court against the provisions of the Yarovaya-Ozerov amendments the requirement to indicate the full name of the religious organization. According to the applicant, this provision is vague and contradicts two articles of the Constitution.

Journalist Prokopyeva was convicted under Art. 205.2 of the Criminal Code for a radio broadcast about the causes of an explosion in the UFSB building in Arkhangelsk. On July 6, 2020, at an offsite hearing in the Pskov Regional Court, a panel of three judges of the 2nd Western District Military Court found journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva guilty of justifying terrorism in the media (part 2 of article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) and sentenced her to a fine of 500,000 rubles. rubles.

The director of the center for helping children in Miass was fined under Art. 6.17 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. On May 27, 2020, the Justice of the Peace of Court District No. 3 of Miass, Chelyabinsk Region, fined 5,000 rubles under Part 1 of Art.

A student from Azerbaijan waskilled in June 2020 in an act of racist violence in Volgograd. Since thebeginning of the year, according to our data, 13 individuals in Russia havefallen victim to ideologically motivated violence, with one of them beingkilled. Another three received death threats. Also in June, the building ofan Islamic cultural center was vandalized in Elektrogorsk. Meanwhile, Leninstatues in Vologda and Vladivostok were also vandalized.

In June 2020, in Novosibirsk, a court sentenced Maxim Kartsev to 6 years in prison, who, as a minor, committed the racist murder of a visitor from Kyrgyzstan. On June 29, 2020, the Central District Court of Novosibirsk delivered a verdict in the case of murder motivated by ethnic hatred (par. "l" part 2 of article 105 of the Criminal Code).