The Southern District Military Court is starting to consider on the merits the case of three Crimean Tatars accused of involvement in the Hizb ut-Tahrir party, which is recognized as a terrorist organization in Russia.

Andrey Trofimov, a journalist from Alternativnaya Gazeta, was fined 10,000 rubles. On December 10, 2021, the Sergiev Posad City Court found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 20.2.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (organization of mass simultaneous stay of citizens in public places that caused a violation of public of order) Andrey Trofimov, a journalist of the Alternativnaya Gazeta publication, who covered a people's gathering in the village of Buzhaninovo near Moscow in September.

The Laishevsky District Court of Tatarstan recognized the collections of hadiths "Sahih al-Bukhari", "Bulyug al-Maram", as well as the first volume of "The Interpretation of the Holy Quran" by al-Saadi, another edition of which was banned in 2020, as extremist materials.

The reason for initiating the case was publications on the social network VKontakte. In December 2021, a criminal case was opened in St. Petersburg under Part 1 of Art. 354.1 of the Criminal Code (rehabilitation of Nazism) against a 50-year-old local resident for spreading "false information" about the events of World War II on the VKontakte social network. The suspect was arrested on Dec. He is under bail.

A criminal case on xenophobic graffiti on city buildings has been dropped in St. Petersburg. In early December 2021, the Kirovsky District Court of St. Petersburg issued a decision to dismiss the criminal case of Yegor Arzamasov, who was charged under part 2 of article 214 of the Criminal Code (vandalism), part 1 of article 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremist activities).

The decision to remove Irina Fatyanova from the elections to the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg for her involvement in the activities of an extremist organization was recognized as legal. On December 10, 2021, the St. Petersburg City Court rejected the claim of the former head of Navalny’s headquarters, Irina Fatyanova, to invalidate the decision of Territorial Election Commission No. 18, which on July 27 annulled her nomination to the city’s Legislative Assembly.

Private reserve Ramzan Albakov received two years probation. In December 2021, the Irkutsk Garrison Military Court announced a guilty verdict under paragraph b of part 2 of Art. 335 of the Criminal Code (hazing) and paragraph and part 2 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (incitement of national hatred) to ordinary reserve Ramzan Albakov.

The Strasbourg court decided that there was no need to prosecute the Karelian activist for an anti-clerical note, and the subsequent liquidation of the Youth Human Rights Group of Karelia, which he founded, was illegal. On December 7, 2021, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) published a ruling in which it recognized the persecution of Karelian activist Maksim Efimov under Part 1 of Art.

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