We are publishing a review of the main and most significant events in the field of unlawful application of anti-extremist legislation in Russia in March 2021. Rulemaking In early March, Vladimir Putin signed a law expanding the list of information subject to extrajudicial blocking on the Internet: election commissions are tasked with making decisions on the temporary blocking of illegal campaigning.

A resident of the Komi Republic was sentenced to a suspended sentence. On April 1, 2021, it became known that in the Komi Republic, the Ukhta City Court found a local resident guilty under Part 2 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremism on the Internet) and sentenced him to one and a half years in prison on probation.

In Moscow, police officers with dogs carried out checks in 135 Orthodox churches. The reason for the checks was a report about the mining of 40 churches in the city. On April 4, 2021, in Moscow, police officers with dogs carried out checks in 135 Orthodox churches.

The Supreme Court of Crimea upheld the complaint of Imam Ablyakim Galiev, who was fined for "illegal missionary work." On April 6, 2021, the Supreme Court of Crimea satisfied the complaint of Imam Ablyakim Galiyev, who was fined for “illegal missionary work” in November 2020, and sent the case back for a new trial. Recall that the World Court of Judicial Section No. 86 of the Sudak Judicial District of Crimea found the imam guilty under part 4 Art.

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.

Moscow authorities have allocated free parking spaces near the city's religious buildings. On April 5, 2021, it became known that the Moscow authorities allocated free parking spaces near the religious buildings of the city. “ Near such places, we allocate free parking spaces, these are usually three or four ,” commented Maria Mayorova, head of the department’s parking space development department transport and development of the road transport infrastructure of the city.

Yuri Savelyev was sentenced to six years in prison. On April 5, 2021, the Novosibirsk Regional Court approved the decision of the Leninsky District Court of Novosibirsk, which on December 16, 2020 sentenced 66-year-old Yury Savelyev to six years in a penal colony under part 1 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (organization of the activities of an extremist organization).

Alexander Shcherbina is charged under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code. On April 5, 2021, during a debate in the Abinsk District Court of the Krasnodar Territory, the prosecutor demanded that Alexander Shcherbina, a follower of the teachings of Jehovah’s Witnesses, be sentenced to three years in a penal colony. The believer is accused under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (participation in the activities of an extremist organization), he is under house arrest.

The vandals left the inscription "ENO" on the monument. On April 5, 2021, a memorial dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust was desecrated in Pushkin. Vandals wrote “ENO” (Ethnic National Association) and “Death to the Jews” on it with white paint. The offensive inscription was soon removed, but the monument itself was damaged: the surface was scratched, and the inscription made with gold paint was partially rubbed off. Now the monument needs restoration. The Jewish community of St.