Candidates will have to inform voters that they are "foreign agents" or affiliated with them. December 23, 2020 The State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted in the first reading one of the bills from a package of initiatives to tighten the legislation on "foreign agents". The bill should amend the law "On Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights and the Right to participation in the referendum of citizens of the Russian Federation".

A law was adopted in the third reading that introduces heavy fines for site owners and hosters for avoiding blocking illegal content. On December 23, 2020, the State Duma adopted in the third reading a law that introduces into the Code of Administrative Offenses (CAO) rules on liability for failure by site owners and hosting providers to remove or block illegal content. On December 25, 2020, the law was approved by the Federation Council.

Hassan Kogut was sentenced to a suspended sentence for participating in the activities of the community. On December 23, 2020, the Kemerovo Regional Court approved the verdict Jehovah's Witness Hassan Kohut.

The Russian Association for Religious Freedom came up with a proposal to adopt the International Convention for the Protection of the Rights of Believers.

A law was adopted in the third reading that allows restricting access to sites such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter for censoring Russian media. On December 23, 2020, the State Duma adopted in the third reading a law introduced by a group of six deputies led by Alexander Khinshtein and Senator Alexei Pushkov. It allows you to block Internet resources, from the point of view of the authorities, unreasonably restricting the dissemination of Russian media materials.

In the Tula region, the church in is put up for sale . the temple of Demetrius of Thessalonica in Zavalovo, which is under state protection, In December 2020, it became known that in the Tula region, the temple of Dmitry Solunsky in Zavalovo was put up for sale. The owner estimated the cost of the church building at 450 thousand rubles. regional heritage.

Authors of anti-Semitic writings Oleg Platonov and Valery Erchak were convicted in Moscow. On December 23, 2020, the Presnensky District Court of Moscow delivered a verdict in the case of Oleg Platonov and Valery Erchak. Erchak was found guilty under paragraph “c” of Part 2 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (incitement of hatred committed as part of an organized group) and sentenced to three years of suspended imprisonment with the same probationary period.

The law toughening the legislation on "foreign agents" was adopted in the third reading. On December 23, 2020, the State Duma adopted in the third reading the law "On Amending Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation in Part of Establishing Additional Measures to Counter Threats to National Security", which tightens the legislation on "foreign agents". On December 25, 2020, the law was approved by the Federation Council.

The State Duma adopted in the third reading a law on combating illegal content in social networks. It will be distributed only on social networks with a half-million audience. They will have to independently and upon complaint block such content that is subject to existing out-of-court blocking legislation. The amendments provide a mechanism for challenging the decisions of the administration of the social network.

Summary : Organizational changes on the far right flank : Rally activity of the far right : Other Summary The summer and fall of 2020 were outstanding for the far-right movement heavy enough. The trend that emerged a year ago to overcome fragmentation and marginality has not yet developed. party projects, previously announced, also did not take place.

In Moscow, the building of the Church of the Ascension on Bolshaya Nikitskaya (“Small Ascension”) with the houses of the clergy was transferred to the property of the Russian Orthodox Church. On December 18, 2020, in Moscow, the building of the Church of the Ascension on Bolshaya Nikitskaya (“Small Ascension”), two clergy houses and a church shop (d. 18, d. 20/1, bld. 1, d. 16) were transferred to the property of the Russian Orthodox Church 1, p. 2).

It is proposed to introduce the concept of "educational activity" into the law "On Education" and prohibit its use for "inciting hatred" and inciting illegal actions. On December 23, 2020, the State Duma of the Russian Federation approved in the first reading amendments to the federal law "On Education", which was submitted to the Parliament on November 18 by a group of five senators headed by Andrey Klimov and ten deputies.

Believers are accused of organizing the activities of the banned community and its financing. On December 17, 2020, the Leninsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don began considering the merits of the case of Jehovah's Witnesses Arsen and Vilen Avanesov and Alexander Parkov. All three are charged under Part 1 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code in organizing the activities of a banned local community, and the Avanesovs - also under Part 1 of Art. 282.3, in the financing of extremist activities.

The bill establishes criminal liability for hooliganism committed by an unorganized group persons without prior agreement or with the use of violence. December 23 2020, the State Duma approved in the second and third readings the bill "On introducing amendments to Article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation”. Bill was introduced on December 16 by deputy Dmitry Vyatkin (United Russia), and on December 22 it was adopted in the first reading .

The prosecutor's office found serious procedural violations in the case file. On December 8, 2020, the prosecutor’s office of the Ivanovo region returned to the regional department of the Investigative Committee the criminal case of five Jehovah’s Witnesses from Shuya for additional investigation due to violations by the investigation of the norms of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which prevented the approval of the indictment and its submission to the court.