The Rostov Regional Court recognized as correct the assignment of a suspended sentence to a Jehovah's Witness under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code. On March 1, 2021, the Rostov Regional Court dismissed an appeal against the sentence of Jehovah's Witness Ruslan Aliev. He was sentenced to two and a half years of imprisonment under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (participation in the activities of an extremist organization). Aliyev was sentenced in December 2020.

A protocol was drawn up against the regional Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation under Art. 20.29 Code of Administrative Offenses for publication on VKontakte. On March 3, 2021, the detective of the Center for Combating Extremism (CPE) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Tyumen Region drew up a protocol under Art.

On March 3, 2021, it became known that in Temryuk In the Krasnodar Territory, the world court fined the pastor of the Church of Evangelical Christians "New Generation" Andrey Burnaevsky for "illegal" missionary work. The amount of the fine was five thousand rubles. According to the pastor, There were serious procedural violations in the case. He intends to challenge the decision of the court. Sources In the Kuban, the pastor was punished for missionary activity // Caucasus. Realities. 2021.

Due to the increase in the number of administrative cases under Art. 20.29 of the Administrative Code (production and distribution of prohibited materials), we combine similar cases for each month into a single list.

March 2, 2021 it became known that 21 February rector of the Holy Spirit Monastery in Timashevsk (Krasnodar Territory), Archimandrite John (Konovalov) turned to Governor Veniamin Kondratiev with a request to postpone the construction of a garbage landfill elsewhere. Landfill construction and a waste sorting complex is planned to start a kilometer from the monastery, near the Nekrasov farm.

The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation denied accepting for consideration the complaint of the Novosibirsk Krishnaite Dmitry Knyazev, who tried to challenge the paragraph of the law "On freedom of conscience and religious associations”, which determines the places where you can conduct a missionary activity. However, the Constitutional Court clarified the norm of the law.

One believer has been arrested, two have been placed under house arrest, and two more are under house arrest. On March 2, 2021, in Syktyvkar, at least 14 families of Jehovah's Witnesses were searched in connection with a new criminal case, which was initiated by the investigative department of the Russian Investigative Committee for the Komi Republic under CC. 1 and 2 Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (organization of the activities of an extremist organization and participation in it).

On March 3, 2021, at an expanded meeting of the board of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin called on law enforcement officers to stop propaganda of nationalism, xenophobia, religious hatred and violence. “The most serious attention should be paid to the fight against extremism.

Sergei Yerkin, who has been accused of organizing the activities of the banned organization of Jehovah's Witnesses since 2018, has been charged with financing extremism. On February 10, 2021, Sergei Yerkin, a Jehovah's Witness from Magadan, was charged with a new version. In addition to organizing the activities of an extremist organization (part 1 of article 282.2 of the Criminal Code), he is now accused of financing extremism (part 1 of article 282.3 of the Criminal Code).

On March 3, 2021, it became known that searches had been carried out at the office of the Administrative Theory of Management (ATM) company in a criminal case under Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud). According to investigators, the company is involved in stealing money from shareholders and transferring it to the Church of Scientology outside Russia.

We publish an overview of the main and most significant events in the field of misuse of anti-extremist legislation in Russia in February 2021. Lawmaking At the end month, Vladimir Putin signed the law on amendments to the Code of Administrative offenses (CAO), establishing responsibility for various violations, associated with the "sovereign Internet".

A criminal case has been opened against a resident of Rasskazovo for public calls for extremist activity. In March 2021, the Investigation Department of the Federal Security Service of Russia for the Tambov Region opened a criminal case under Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremist activities) against a 53-year-old resident of the city of Rasskazovo.

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. In March 2021, in the Republic of Karelia, a resident of Petrozavodsk was fined 1,000 rubles. He was also fined under Article 20.29 (distribution of extremist materials) of the Code of Administrative Offenses.

A swastika was painted on the monument to Lenin and a portrait of Hitler was pasted. On March 1, 2021, in Partizansk, Primorsky Krai, attackers stuck stickers with a portrait of Hitler on the monument to Lenin and drew a swastika. The monument to Lenin in Partizansk was erected in the square of the Palace of Culture in 1967. The first secretary of the committee of the local branch of the Communist Party said that he was preparing a statement to the police.