According to investigators, Miftakhov spoke approvingly of the self-detonation of anarchist Zhlobitsky in the FSB building. On March 28, 2024, the Central District Military Court sentenced mathematician and anarchist Azat Miftakhov to four years in prison: he will spend the first two years of his sentence in prison, the rest of the term in a maximum security colony. He was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 205.2 of the Criminal Code (public justification of terrorism or propaganda of terrorism).

Kerchanin was brought to justice under Art. 20.3 Code of Administrative Offenses for pro-Ukrainian publication. On August 31, 2023, the Kerch City Court announced that it had arrested for seven days under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 of the Administrative Code (public display of symbols of an extremist organization) by a 61-year-old local resident. We are probably talking about Abibul Dzhapparov (according to open sources, he is 62 years old).

On August 31, 2023, the Federal List of Extremist Materials was updated. The list was supplemented by video recordings of sermons by the former schema-abbot Sergius (Nikolai Romanov) and a song praising the Columbine subculture. Update of the Federal List of Extremist Materials dated August 31, 2023 5364 Video file “Schigumen Sergius addressed Putin! Why are you silent?”, duration 18 minutes 30 seconds, begins with the words: “Dear fathers, brothers and sisters!

On August 31, 2023, the Kalininsky District Court of St. Petersburg issued a guilty verdict in the case of former priest Ioann Kurmoyarov. The court found him guilty under paragraphs. “g” and “d” part 2 art.

In Magadan, a criminal case has been opened for the rehabilitation of Nazism against a resident of the village of Palatka in the Magadan Region for writing in one of the instant messengers. At the end of August 20232, the Second Department for Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Magadan Region opened a criminal case under paragraph “c” of Part 2 of Art.

Charge under Part 1 of Art. 205.2 of the Criminal Code is related to Miftakhov’s conversation with two other prisoners. On August 17, 2023, mathematician and anarchist Azat Miftakhov, who is serving a sentence in IK-17 in the Kirov region, was included in the list of extremists and terrorists of Rosfinmonitoring. On August 25, it became known that a criminal case had been opened against him under Part 1 of Art.

On August 29, 2023, it became known that a group of far-right activists led by MMA fighter Maxim Divnich forced stand-up comedian Sergei Orlov to apologize for his joke about the lessons of Orthodox culture. In one of his sketches, the comedian talks about the lessons of Orthodox culture at school: “ The whole subject is called “the basics of Orthodoxy.” I was also so surprised: do you need a lot of basics?

We are republishing an article by Alexander Verkhovsky published on August 30, 2023 in The Moscow Times. Criminal prosecutions for “extremist speech” have increased in 2022 – but by how much? And what does this mean for the near future? In 2022, political repression has sharply intensified; this has long been a commonplace. Actually, regardless of political position, everyone could have expected exactly this in a situation of a full-scale armed conflict.