A resident of the Orenburg region was sentenced to compulsory work. On December 12, 2022, in the Orenburg region, a verdict was pronounced in the case under paragraph "c" part 2 of Art. 354.1 of the Criminal Code (rehabilitation of Nazism). According to the case file, 45-year-old Aleksey Smolko published texts on VKontakte, where there were "linguistic signs of a positive assessment of violent (hostile) actions related to the destruction, extermination by A.

In September, a court in Feodosia sentenced Dmitry Stepanchenko. On December 15, 2022, it became known that on September 14, the magistrate of court district No. 89 of the Feodosia judicial district of Crimea sentenced Dmitry Stepanchenko under Part 2 of Art. 214 of the Criminal Code (vandalism motivated by political hatred). The Crimean citizen was sentenced to one year and 21 days of restriction of freedom. The criminal case was opened in March 2022.

Pacifist Vasily Koretsky, who poured paint on a memorial sign, was sentenced to one and a half years of restriction of freedom. On December 15, 2022, it became known that on July 7, the magistrate of the 208th judicial district of the Pushchinsky judicial district of the Moscow region sentenced local resident Vasily Koretsky under Part 2 of Art. 214 of the Criminal Code (vandalism motivated by political and ideological hatred). He was sentenced to one and a half years of restriction of freedom.

Amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses and the Criminal Code were approved in the third reading. On December 15, 2022, the State Duma adopted in the second reading bill No. 195145-8 "On Amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation". On December 20, it was adopted in the third reading. On the same day, Law No. 195130-8 was adopted in the second and third readings , changing Art. 239 and 330.1 of the Criminal Code.

Alexander Sokolov received three years in prison for posting on VKontakte. According to the case file, from January 29 to September 22, 2021, Sokolov published messages on VKontakte “approving the crimes established by the verdict of the International Military Tribunal for the trial and punishment of the main war criminals of the European Axis countries, degrading the honor and dignity of a veteran of the Great Patriotic War of 1941- 1945".

In Perm, members of the group “National Revival Path of Russian Patriotism” received suspended sentences. On December 7, 2022, the Dzerzhinsky District Court of Perm sentenced members of the National Revival Path of Russian Patriotism (NVSRP) group. The investigation considered Andrei Ageev to be the organizer of the “National Revival Path of Russian Patriotism” community, and Sergei Igitov and Daniil Zorin to be its participants. Ageev was found guilty under Part 1 of Art.

The Saratov Regional Court upheld the decision of the lower instance. On December 15, 2022, the Saratov Regional Court announced that it had considered an appeal against the decision of the Leninsky District Court of Saratov to block the anonymous Tor browser and left it unchanged. This decision was made on July 28, 2022. A court in Saratov declared the information contained in the Tor Browser application and the application hosted on Google Play banned for distribution in Russia.

In Chuvashia, a “citizen of the USSR” was arrested on charges of inciting hatred and enmity. In December 2022, “USSR citizen” Elvira Paeva was arrested in Chuvashia under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred or enmity) due to anti-Semitic and anti-vaccination posts on VKontakte. Among the posts that attracted the attention of law enforcement agencies was a post by user “Eto Ya” dedicated to the coronavirus. The case against Payeva was initiated in June 2022.

The State Duma adopted amendments abolishing the labeling from 0+ to 16+ for works of art and books included in the school curriculum. Including the Bible, the Koran, the Tanakh and the Kanjur were exempted from age marking.

The case of a resident of Nizhny Tagil about a comment on a social network has been sent to court. On December 15, 2022, the prosecutor's office of the Sverdlovsk region announced that it had approved the indictment in the criminal case of a resident of Nizhny Tagil, born in 1987. He is charged under Part 1 of Art. 354.1 of the Criminal Code (rehabilitation of Nazism).

We publish an overview of the main and most significant events in the field of misuse of anti-extremist legislation in Russia in November 2022. Rulemaking On November 11, the Russian Ministry of Justice published a draft procedure for the formation of a unified register of information about persons involved in the activities of an extremist or terrorist organization.

Verdict under Part 2 of Art. 214 of the Criminal Code was issued in August 2022. On December 15, 2022, it became known that on August 17, the magistrate of the Amur region for Blagoveshchensk city court district No. 1 sentenced local resident Pavel Kambolin under Part 2 of Art. 214 of the Criminal Code (vandalism motivated by political hatred). He was sentenced to 10 months of restriction of freedom.