At a press conference on the upcoming MMA tournament, Vyacheslav Datsik (Red Tarzan) handed his rival Cameroonian boxer Tyson Dijon a bunch of bananas. In response, the athlete threw bananas at Datsik's face. On February 9, 2012, the True Gym MMA YouTube channel published a recording from the press conference of the infamous MMA and Muay Thai fighter Vyacheslav Datsik (Red Tarzan) and the Cameroonian boxer Tyson Dijon.

Believers are accused of organizing the activities of the banned community and its financing. On February 17, 2021, it became known that on January 29, 2021, the Pervomaisky District Court of Kirov began considering the case of six Jehovah’s Witnesses – Andrzej Onischuk, Andrey and Yevgeny Suvorkov, Maxim Khalturin, Vladimir Vasiliev, and Vladimir Korobeinikov. They are accused under Part 1 of Art.

On February 17, 2021, it became known that within a month in Karachay-Cherkessia, Crimea, Krasnodar Territory and Rostov region, the FSB detained 19 people on suspicion of collaborating with At-Takfir wal Hijra". They were charged under Part 1, Part 1.1, Part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organization of activities and participation in the activities of an extremist organization).

They are suspected of continuing the activities of a terrorist organization. On February 17, 2021, the FSB detained six residents of Crimea and Sevastopol, Lenur Seidametov, Timur Yalkabov, Azamat Eyupov, Yashar Shikhametov, Ernest Ibragimov, and Oleg Fedorov, on suspicion under Art. 205.5 of the Criminal Code (organization of the activities of a terrorist organization or participation in one).

On 16 February 2021, the EuropeanCourt of Human Rights (ECHR) declared the trial of Nikita Tikhonov and YevgeniaKhasis unfair. TheECHR found that the jury lacked impartiality. However,the Court did not award any compensation to the applicants. Tikhonov’sguilty verdict for the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalistAnastasia Baburova shall be reviewed by the Supreme Court of the RussianFederation after the ECHR decision comes into force.

Here we publish the comments of the authors of the "Owl", devoted to the problems of the relationship between religion, society and the state, published on other sites. Comments from 2020 can be found here , 2019 - here , 2018 - here , 2017 - here , 2016 - here , 2015 - here . For earlier articles, see the "Publications" section. Comments are in reverse chronological order: "Please blame torturers". A resident of the Stavropol region spoke about torture in a pre-trial detention center .

Valentin Osadchuk and six elderly women are accused of continuing the activities of the banned community. On February 17, 2021, it became known that on January 19 2021, the Leninsky District Court of Vladivostok received for a new consideration criminal case of Valentin Osadchuk, Nadezhda Anoykina, Lyubov Galaktionova, Elena Zaishchuk, Naili Kogai, Nina Purge and Raisa Usanova. Osadchuk is charged under Part 1 of Art.

She was fined 10 thousand rubles under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code. February 16, 2021 Birobidzhansky District Court of the Jewish Autonomous Region delivered a verdict in the case Jehovah's Witnesses Elena Reino-Chernyshova. She was found guilty of participating in activities of an extremist organization (part 2 of article 282.2 of the Criminal Code) and fined 10,000 rubles.

The deputies propose to equate the use of Nazi symbols with the demonstration of the faces of those who were convicted by the tribunals during and after the Second World War.

Yong Sen Lee and Yegor Baranov are accused of continuing the activities of the banned community. On February 17, 2021, it became known that on February 2, 2021, for consideration by the Vyazemsky district The court of the Khabarovsk Territory received a criminal case against Jehovah's Witnesses Yong Sen Lee, accused under ss. 1 and 1.1 Art.

February 15, 2021 it became known about initiation of a criminal case under Art. 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public calls for extremist activity) in relation to one of the participants of an uncoordinated rally near the French Embassy in Moscow in the fall of 2020.

The law on restricting access to Internet sites for censoring Russian media is supplemented by penalties. On February 17, 2021, the Federation Council approved amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses establishing liability for various violations related to the "sovereign Internet". The bill was submitted to the State Duma on November 24, 2020, adopted in the first reading on December 24, 2020, in the second - on February 9, 2021, in the third - on February 10.

Penalties are introduced for mentioning "foreign agents" in media materials without indicating their status. On February 17, the Federation Council approved a law amending the Code of Administrative Offenses (CAO) related to "foreign agents." They should come into force on March 1. On February 16, 2021, the State Duma adopted the relevant bill in the second and third readings. In accordance with the law Art. 13.15 of the Code of Administrative Offenses is supplemented with ch.