After the partial decriminalization of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code in the Code of Administrative Offenses, a new article - 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity). We collect handed down by it resolutions in a single list monthly. On January 26, 2021, the Yakutsk City Court of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) fined 10 thousand rubles. B. Alekseeva.

The following is our review of the primary and most representative events in misuse of Russia's anti-extremist legislation in December 2020. Lawmaking Earlier this month, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law that changes the principle of punishment for incitement to separatism and establishes criminal liability for separatist actions per se.

January 7, 2021 Russian Orthodox The church celebrated Christmas. We present the statistics of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on the number of those who attended festive services in different regions. Most of the regional offices The Ministry of Internal Affairs did not publish information on the number of those present at the festive services. It can be assumed that due to anti-epidemic restrictions the number of believers who came to the temples has noticeably decreased.

Enver and Riza Omerovs, as well as Aider Dzhapparov, were sentenced to long terms under Art. 205.5 and 278 of the Criminal Code for involvement in the activities of the radical Islamic party Hizb ut-Tahrir. In Russia, it is recognized as a terrorist organization. On January 12, 2021, the Southern District Military Court delivered a verdict in the so-called Belogorsk case of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Crimea and sentenced three defendants to long prison terms.

In Rostov-on-Don, Konstantin Kultyshev received two years in prison for comments on a social network justifying the terrorist attack in Christchurch, New Zealand. In January 2021, in Rostov-on-Don, the Southern District Military Court sentenced under Part 2 of Art. 205.2 of the Criminal Code (public calls for terrorist activities) Konstantin Kultyshev to two years in a penal colony for justifying terrorism.

On January 11, 2021, the Center "E" of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Karelia published quantitative data on offenses of an "extremist orientation" in 2020 According to the agency, in 2020 "to administrative responsibility for offenses 52 residents of Karelia were involved in an extremist orientation, in relation to of which 61 administrative files were drawn up.

January 12, 2021 Oktyabrsky district the court of Yekaterinburg recognized Vsevolod Moguchev, an associate of the former shiigumen Sergius (Romanov), guilty under Art. 20.3.1 Administrative Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity) and appointed him 15 days of administrative arrest.