In July2020, SOVA Center learned about only one hate-motivated attack which occurred in the Kurskregion. According to our data, in total, sincethe beginning of 2020, fourteen people have faced ideologically motivatedviolence; one of the victims has died, and three have received death threats. InJuly, 30 tombstones were vandalized at a Jewish cemetery in SaintPetersburg. Since the beginning of the year, we are aware of 16 cases of ideologically motivated vandalism.

In August 2020, the Moscow City Court changed the verdict in the case against Pavel Mamaev, Alexander Kokorin, Kirill Kokorin, Alexander Protasovitsky , which he had previously handed down for attacking the director of one of the departments of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Pak and beating the driver Vitaly Solovchuk. The brothers Kokorin and Protasovitsky were acquitted on charges of hooliganism.

In July 2020, the SOVA Center is only aware of one hate-motivated attack in the Kursk region. Total since the beginning of 2020 year, according to our data, fourteen one person died, three others received death threats. In July, 30 tombstones in the Jewish cemetery. Since the beginning of the year, we have known 16 cases of ideological motivated vandalism. Public activity of ultra-right organizations in July was low.

After the partial decriminalization of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code in the Code of Administrative Offenses, a new article appeared - 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity). We collect the resolutions issued on it into a single list on a monthly basis. On August 28, 2020, the Volodarsky District Court of Bryansk fined him 10,000 rubles.

We we publish an overview of the main and most significant events in the field of illegal application of anti-extremist legislation in Russia in July 2020. Rulemaking In mid-July, the State Duma adopted in the first reading a government bill on amendments to Art.

Pastor ECB was fined in Buryatia. On August 3, 2020, it became known that in Buryatia a pastor of Evangelical Christian Baptists (ECB), who served in Bugry at the end of June, was fined 5,000 rubles. in the nearby hills. Sources In Buryatia, a Baptist was fined for illegal preaching // Article28. 2020. August 3.

The definition of extremism includes "alienation of part of the territory of the Russian Federation." On July 31, 2020, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed Law No. 985175-7 "On Amendments to Article 1 of the Federal Law "On Counteracting Extremist Activities"". The bill was submitted to the State Duma on July 8, on July 14 it was adopted in the first reading, on July 22 - in the second , and already on July 23 - in the third . On July 24, it was approved by the Federation Council.

In August 2020, it became known that in the Republic of Karelia there was a criminal case initiated against a local pensioner for publishing anti-Semitic materials on a social network. In August 2020, it became known that in the Sortavalsky district of the Republic of Karelia, an investigation into the case of public calls for extremism (part 2 of article 280 of the Criminal Code) was completed.

In Yekaterinburg, in the square near the Drama Theater, an art object in the form of a fallen fence appeared - in memory of the 2019 protests against the construction of the temple. The object has been dismantled.

Roskomnadzor has suspended the educational license of the Theological Institute of the Church of Ingria. On July 23, 2020, it became known that Roskomnadzor suspended the educational license of the Theological Institute of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ingria. The institute is located in the village of Kolbino near St. Petersburg.

The sentence of 61-year-old Gennady Shpakovsky was changed from 6.5 years in prison to a suspended sentence. On August 3, 2020, the Pskov Regional Court on appeal commuted the sentence of Gennady Shpakovsky, a 61-year-old Jehovah's Witness follower, to a suspended sentence. Recall that on June 9, 2020, the Pskov City Court found the believer guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (organization of the activities of an extremist organization) and Part 1 of Art.