On May 27, 2022, the Sovetsky District Court of Nizhny Novgorod found the vicar of the local Pastafarian Church of the Flying Pasta Monster Mikhail Iosilevich guilty under Art. 284.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (participation in the activities of an organization recognized as undesirable on the territory of Russia) and sentenced him to a year and eight months in prison in a colony-settlement.

The following is our review of the primary and most representativeevents in the misuse of Russia's anti-extremist legislation in April 2022. Lawmaking On April 16, a bill establishingadministrative responsibility for equating the “goals, decisions and actions”of the leadership of the USSR and Nazi Germany and for “denying the decisiverole of the Soviet people” in its defeat was signed into law. A new legal norm,Article 13.48, has been added to the Code of Administrative Offences (CAO).

In May 2022, in the Arkhangelsk region, the court recognized the "People's Council of Citizens of the RSFSR USSR of the Arkhangelsk Region" as extremist. On May 24, 2022, the Arkhangelsk Regional Court considered the suit of the prosecutor's office to recognize the People's Council of Citizens of the RSFSR USSR of the Arkhangelsk Region as an extremist organization. According to media reports, its leader is Vladimir Chernyshev, and its members have been repeatedly prosecuted under Art.