A resident of Kola is accused of public calls for extremism and terrorism. In February 2021, the Investigative Department for the Kola District of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Murmansk Region completed the investigation of a criminal case under Part 2 of Art. 205.2 of the Criminal Code (public calls for the implementation of a terrorist activities) and Part 2 of Art.

In November 2020, a resident of Yoshkar-Ola was fined under Art. 20.29 Code of Administrative Offences. In 2021, we learned that on November 18, 2020, the Yoshkar-Ola City Court of the Republic of Mari El fined one thousand rubles under Art. 20.29 Code of Administrative Offenses (mass distribution of extremist materials) by local resident Alexander Melnikov.

On February 03, 2021, the federal list of extremist materials. The list was supplemented by a book on the foundations and principles of Islam and a book - the biography of the Prophet Muhammad. 5152.

Chuvash activist Kochkin was arrested for reposting news that activist Pankov was punished for reposting news about his own discontinued repost case that included the banned slogan "Orthodoxy or Death!". On January 29, 2021, the Moscow District Court arrested Cheboksary for seven days under Art. 20.29 Administrative Code (mass distribution of extremist materials) Semyon Kochkin, coordinator of the city headquarters of Alexei Navalny.

It became known that three more people were punished in 2020 for distributing a banned video about United Russia. In 2021, we became aware of three cases of bringing residents of the Altai Territory to justice under Art. 20.29 Code of Administrative Offenses (mass distribution of extremist materials) for publishing the video “Let’s remember the Crooks and Thieves their Manifesto 2002” on the social network VKontakte.

Artur Lokhvitsky from Birobidzhan received a suspended sentence under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code. On February 2, 2021, the Birobidzhansky District Court of the Jewish Autonomous Region convicted 35-year-old Jehovah's Witness Artur Lokhvitsky. He was sentenced to two and a half years of suspended imprisonment with a three-year probationary period under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (participation in the activities of an extremist organization).

Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeev) supported the initiative of the Orenburg Cossacks, who are ready to monitor cases of the use of profanity in social networks. On February 8, 2021, it became known that Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeev) supported the initiative of the Orenburg Cossacks, who were ready to monitor cases of the use of profanity on the Odnoklassniki and VKontakte social networks and report violations of the law to the authorities. The Cossacks called their detachment "Cyber ​​Cossacks".

Thefollowing is our monthly review of instances of xenophobia and radicalnationalism, along with any government countermeasures, for January 2021. As of the date of this update, we are not (yet)aware of any hate crimes committed in Russia during January 2021. Nationalists' public activities in January wereconducted in connection with more general events of the Russian opposition ledby Alexei Navalny.

The court of Smolensk arrested for two days a resident of the city, who, on the feast of Epiphany, swore at the police on the territory of the church. On February 8, 2021, it became known that the Industrial District Court of Smolensk arrested for two days a resident of the city, who on the feast of Epiphany on the territory of the church swore at the police. The man was found guilty under Part 2 of Art.

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.

The indictment in the case of four Jehovah's Witnesses has been sent to the prosecutor for approval, and the criminal prosecution of four more believers has been discontinued. In early February 2021, it became known that the investigator of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Investigative Committee for the Trans-Baikal Territory had completed the investigation into the criminal case of Jehovah's Witnesses Vladimir Ermolaev, Sergei Kirilyuk, Igor Mamalimov, and Alexander Putintsev.

On August 17, 2020, the Supreme Court of Russia recognized the public movement "Prisoner Criminal Unity" (AUE) as extremist. We believe that the ideology of the criminal world and the AUE subculture is focused on illegal activities and is by its nature incompatible with the implementation of the constitutional rights of citizens.

We will recover a video of the conversation on the topic “Religion, quarantine and power: the main challenges of the freedom of religion in 2020-2021” of the Perm Expert Channel “Four”, in which experts of the information and analytical center Olga Sibirev and Ksenia Sergey Strand (RSU) took part: