OVD-info, with the participation of the SOVA center, has prepared a leaflet with useful information from the laws, the positions of higher courts and the practice of law enforcement agencies regarding the situation that arises after the organization is banned as extremist. What does status mean "extremist" organization? - Turn on into the list of extremist organizations entails the following consequences for their organizers and employees: Does the solution reverse power?

A report by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) has been published on human rights violations committed against historians, activists, journalists and NGOs working with themes of the historical memory of the Soviet past. According to the authors of the report "Russia: Crimes Against History", in recent years, control over the interpretation of the history of the Soviet past has become the most important tool for strengthening authoritarianism in Russia.

All of them are accused of being members of the banned Islamic party Hizb ut-Tahrir. On June 10, 2021, during a debate in the Southern District Military Court, the prosecutor requested terms for the chairman of the autonomous religious community "Alushta" Lenur Khalilov, as well as Eldar Kantimirov, Ruslan Mesutov and Ruslan Nagaev - four alleged supporters of the radical Islamic party Hizb ut-Tahrir, which is recognized in Russia as a terrorist organization.

The court in Primorye considers the case under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code. On June 9, 2021, the Partizansky City Court of Primorsky Krai began considering the case of Jehovah's Witness Lidiya Maltseva, charged under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (participation in the activities of an extremist organization). The case was opened in August 2020. was investigated Maltseva was chosen as a measure of restraint in the form of a written undertaking not to leave.

The reason was the song about the terrorist attack on Dubrovka. On June 9, 2021, the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee for St. Petersburg announced the initiation of a case under Part 2 of Art. 205.2 of the Criminal Code (public justification of terrorism on the Internet) in relation to video blogger Yuri Khovansky. On June 10, the Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg took the blogger into custody.

Berezhnoy gets 9 years in a high-security penal colony. On June 9, 2021, the Basmanny District Court sentenced Anton Berezhnoy to 9 years in a high-security penal colony under Part 4 of Article 111 (intentional infliction of a grave injury which has resulted in the death of the victim by negligence) and Article 116 of the Criminal Code (battery). On June 29, 2019, Berezhnoy attacked two young men with a knife, shouting homophobic slurs. One of the victims, Roman Yedalov, died on the spot.

On June 9, the Moscow City Court in the lawsuit of the Moscow prosecutor’s office was recognized by the Fund for the fight against corruption (FBK), the Fund for the Protection of Citizens' Rights (FZPG) and the headquarters of Alexei Navalny with extremist organizations. Now many people were at risk of pressure and persecution. We talk about several “anti -ecstromist” articles of the Code of Administrative Offenses and the Criminal Code, with whom Supporters of Navalny may encounter.

The following is ourreview of the primary and most representative events in the misuse of Russia'santi-extremist legislation in May 2021. Lawmaking In May, the State Dumapassed in three readings a law prohibiting people, who were “involved” in theactivities of an extremist or terrorist organization, from running for electiveoffice.

At the beginning of June 2021, the representative office of Buryatia in Moscow announced that the investigation into the case under Part 1 of Article 116 of the Criminal Code (beatings motivated by ethnic hatred) had been completed. The materials of the case will be transferred to the prosecutor's office, and then to the court.

On June 9, 2021, the federal list was updated extremist materials. The list was supplemented by a video of right-wing radical content and a recording of a song by an artist under the pseudonym FACER. Update of the Federal List of Extremist Materials dated June 9, 2021 5183 Informational material - video "VID_20190903_205943" (second title - "Urgent!!!

Searches took place in at least four apartments. On June 8, 2021, in Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo Region, law enforcement agencies conducted searches in four apartments: followers of the teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses live in three of them, and believers lived in one previously. After one of the searches, a 74-year-old believer and an elderly couple were detained and interrogated. They took a written undertaking not to leave the place from the man.

The Moscow City Court fully satisfied the administrative claim of the prosecutor's office. On June 9, 2021, the Moscow City Court satisfied the administrative claim of the Moscow prosecutor and recognized the Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK), the Fund for the Protection of Citizens' Rights (FZPG) and Navalny's Headquarters as extremist organizations.

Anna Safronova is suspected of participating in the activities of an extremist organization and of financing it. On June 10, 2021, the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for the Astrakhan Region reported that a criminal case under part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (participation in the activities of an extremist organization) and Part 1 of Art. 282.3 of the Criminal Code (financing of an extremist organization).

The authors of the amendments propose to include images of leaders of Nazi groups, organizations or movements in the definition of extremist materials. On June 9, 2021, amendments were made to the bill, which provides for amendments to the federal laws "On Perpetuating the Victory of the Soviet People in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" and "On Counteracting Extremist Activity".

On April 29, 2021, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) satisfied the complaint of Ivan Astashin, a defendant in the case of the Autonomous Combat Terrorist Organization (ABTO), about the conditions of detention in penal colony No. 15 in Norilsk. Astashin, together with other applicants, stated in the complaint that the conditions of detention in IK-15 violated Article 3 of the Convention on Human Rights (humiliated human dignity).