Alexander Filatov was sentenced to six years in prison under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code. On July 20, 2023, the Krasnoyarsk Regional Court upheld the harsh sentence of Jehovah's Witness Alexander Filatov. Thus, the verdict came into force. On December 28, 2022, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Krasnoyarsk sentenced Filatov to six years in prison under Part 1 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (organizing the activities of an extremist organization).

On December 26, 2022, in the Zheleznodorozhny district of Khabarovsk, unidentified men in uniform and masks broke into the dining room at the mosque, where the imams were with the parishioners. Believers and the imam were thrown to the floor and beaten, after which they broke down the door to the prayer room, scattered books, including the Koran, and religious objects. The girl who worked in the kitchen had a nervous breakdown.

In December 2022, we became aware of only one victim of a xenophobic attack - in St. Petersburg. In total, according to our data as of the end of December, in 2022, 22 people suffered from such violence in 10 regions of the country. Another person received a death threat. These and other data for the year are preliminary. However, even based on them, we can be sure of a decrease in the level of xenophobic violence compared to the previous period: we have information about 63 victims in 2021.

We publish an overview of the main and most significant events in the field of misuse of anti-extremist legislation in Russia in December 2022. Rulemaking In early December, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law specifying the procedure for the activities of "foreign agents" and introducing a number of new restrictions for them in the development of the framework law "On Control over the Activities of Persons Under Foreign Influence" effective from December 1.

Here we present the sentences passed under paragraph “e” of Part 2 of Art. 207.3 of the Criminal Code (dissemination of knowingly false information about the use of Russian armed forces and the activities of Russian government agencies abroad based on political, ideological, social hatred) in 2022.

On December 29, 2022, the federal list of extremist materials was updated. The list was supplemented by an anti-Ukrainian video, a racist article distributed on neo-pagan resources, an anti-Ukrainian propaganda video containing the emblem of the Azov battalion and two songs about skinheads.

Art. 239 of the Criminal Code on the creation of an organization that infringes on the personality and rights of citizens. On December 29, 2022, the President of Russia signed a package of amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses (CAO) and the Criminal Code (CC). The State Duma adopted these amendments in the first reading in October, and in the second and third on December 15 and 20, respectively. On December 23, they were approved by the Federation Council.

In Khakassia, a member of the "Supreme Soviet of the USSR" received a suspended sentence. In December 2022, a court in Abakan sentenced a member of the local association "Supreme Soviet of the USSR" under Part 1 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremist activity).

Alexander Filatov was sentenced to six years in prison under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code. On December 28, 2022, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Krasnoyarsk sentenced Jehovah's Witness Alexander Filatov to six years in prison under Part 1 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (organization of the activities of an extremist organization). The public prosecutor requested just such a punishment.

Vadim Kotov was sentenced to a suspended sentence under Art. 354.1 of the Criminal Code. On December 29, 2022, the Moscow Regional Court sentenced Vadim Kotov, a resident of Krasnogorsk, under Part 4 of Art. 354.1 of the Criminal Code (desecration of the symbols of Russian military glory, insulting the memory of the defenders of the fatherland, committed on the Internet). He was sentenced to two years of probation.