The believers were given a suspended sentence of two to seven years in prison. On March 6, 2024, the Magadan City Court announced the verdict in the case of fourteen Jehovah's Witnesses accused of involvement in an extremist organization. Believers Sergei Erkin, Konstantin Petrov and Ivan Puida, who were found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (organizing the activities of an extremist organization) and Part 1 of Art.

13 апреля 2022 года вышел специальный номер журнала "Statutes & Decisions. The Laws of the USSR and Its Successor States" (Vol.54, 2020, Issue 5-6), посвященный антиэкстремистскому законодательству и использованию экспертных заключений при его применении в России. Номер состоит из введения Алексея Трошева и трех статей: — Alexander Verkhovsky. The Establishment of Anti-Extremism Legislation and the Demand for Textual Analysis in Its Application; — Olga Sibireva.

The law introduces administrative responsibility in the form of a fine or arrest for identifying the actions of the USSR and Nazi Germany, and also the denial of the decisive role of the Soviet people in the defeat of the latter and the significance humanitarian mission of the USSR during the liberation of European countries. On April 16, 2022, President Vladimir Putin signed a law establishing administrative responsibility for identifying the actions of the USSR and the Nazi Germany.

Here we publish comments from the authors of “Owl”, dedicated to the problems of the relationship between religion, society and the state, published on other sites. Comments for 2021 can be viewed here , 2020 - here , 2019 - here , 2018 - here , 2017 - here , 2016 - here , 2015 - here . For earlier ones, see the "Publications" section. The comments are listed in reverse chronological order: Krasno A.

Vitaly Ilyinykh was found guilty of participating in the activities of a banned community. April 15, 2022 Ussuriysk District Court of Primorsky Territory sentenced Jehovah's Witness Vitaly Ilinykh to two and a half years of imprisonment conditionally under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (participation in activities of an extremist organization). Formerly state The prosecutor asked for the Ilinykhs to be sentenced to four years of probation. Ilyinykh was detained in October 2019.

In June 2022, in the city of Krasnoturinsk, Sverdlovsk Region, a court fined a 47-year-old local resident for 300 thousand rubles for posting anti-Semitic pictures on a social network. On June 14, 2022, the Krasnoturyinsky City Court of the Sverdlovsk Region delivered a verdict in a criminal case under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred).

Believers are accused of involvement in the activities of the banned community and its financing. On April 25, 2022, the Magadan City Court will start considering the case of thirteen Jehovah's Witnesses who are charged under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code on the organization of the activities of an extremist organization or participation in it, as well as under Part 1 of Art. 282.3 of the Criminal Code on the financing of extremist activities.

April 16, 2022 in the village Golubkovskoye, Alapaevsky district, Sverdlovsk region, for restoration Ascension Church raised the dome with the letter Z. The diocese announced its innocence in what happened. Temple XIX century is included in the list of cultural monuments of regional significance. Since 2019, restoration has been carried out at the expense of local residents - without permission, project, budget and investor.

Two protocols were drawn up against Nikolai Kuzmin, one of them for a photograph with the symbols of Navalny's organizations. On April 17, 2022, Pskov municipal deputy Nikolai Kuzmin was detained in Pskov at the station on his return from Moscow. In his regard it was drawn up two protocols - one under Art. 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses on discrediting armed forces of the Russian Federation (see about this here ), and the other - under Part 1 of Art.

Anna Safronova was found guilty of participating in the activities of an extremist organization and financing extremism. On April 14, 2022, the Astrakhan Regional Court upheld the sentence of Jehovah's Witness Anna Safronova. On February 21, 2023, the Fourth Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction upheld this decision.

The court sentenced Sergei Belousov to three years of probation. On April 14, 2022, the Seversky City Court of the Tomsk Region sentenced Jehovah's Witness Sergei Belousov to three years' suspended imprisonment with a five-year ban on posting materials on the Internet and a year of restriction of freedom, finding him guilty under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (participation in the activities of an extremist organization).

The Southern District Military Court is holding debates on the second Simferopol case of Hizb ut-Tahrir. On April 18, 2022, during debates in the Southern District Military Court, the prosecutor requested 15-year terms of imprisonment for five defendants in the second Simferopol case of involvement in the Islamic radical party Hizb ut-Tahrir, recognized as a terrorist organization in Russia.

On April 17, 2022, the Arbitration Court of the Sverdlovsk Region, after a new consideration of the claim of the Ekaterinburg diocese, again recognized the diocese’s ownership of 12 buildings of the Sredneuralsky convent complex. Let us recall that earlier the Arbitration Court of the Sverdlovsk Region recognized the ownership of 14 monastic buildings by the diocese, and the 17th Arbitration Court of Appeal overturned this decision.

The reason was the drawing of an image equating the letter Z with a swastika on a bus stop and a pedestal of a monument to Chernyshevsky. April 18, 2022 Moskovsky District Court of St. Petersburg fined a thousand rubles under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (propaganda or demonstration Nazi symbols) by local resident Nikita Chirkov.