Changes have been made to the Code of Administrative Offenses and the Federal Law "On Mass Media". On June 28, 2021, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law amending Art. 13.15 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (CAO), and on July 1 - amendments to Art. 4 of the law "On Mass Media". In January 2021, two relevant bills were submitted to the State Duma. Both of them were adopted in the first reading in May, and in the second and third readings 15-17 June on .

Bashkir activist Dilmukhametov found guilty under Art. 205.2, 280, 280.1, 282.3 of the Criminal Code. We tend to regard the verdict as unlawful. On June 29, 2021, the Supreme Court upheld the sentence of Bashkir activist Airat Dilmukhametov, who in August 2020 was sentenced to nine years in a strict regime colony with a ban on administering websites for three years. On December 4, 2020, this decision was approved by the Military Court of Appeal.

On June 23-24, 2021, the SOVA information and analytical center held the conference "Safety and its price". See the conference program . We publish a full video. The first day The second day The same article in other topics: Russian nationalism and xenophobia Publications Religion in secular society Publications

On the night of June 30, 2021 in the Volzhsky district of Saratov the building of the prayer house of the Old Believers of the Belokrinitsky consent burned down and a residential house next to it. Local residents believe that arson was committed. The building of the prayer house on Kuznechnaya Street Old Believers no longer used, since back in the 1990s they moved to the Assumption Church. In the empty the prayer house had no electrical wiring, which led the locals to the idea of arson.

In Bryansk, Komsomolsk-on-Amur and Perm, the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia detained members of a right-wing radical group "The National Revival Path of Russian Patriotism" and "Youth Organization Rus". Young people from several regions are suspected under Art. 282.1 of the Criminal Code. On June 29, 2021, the media reported that FSB officers had carried out a series of searches and arrests in the Perm Territory, the Bryansk Region, and the Khabarovsk Territory.

Aleksey Berchuk and Dmitry Golik were found guilty under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code. On June 30, 2021, the Blagoveshchensk City Court of the Amur Region passed a sentence on Jehovah's Witnesses Alexei Berchuk and Dmitry Golik. Berchuk was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282.2 (organizing the activities of an extremist organization) and sentenced to eight years in prison. Golik was found guilty under Part 1 and Part 1.1 of Art.