The case of a resident of Orenburg, accused of creating and leading the Allya-ayat association, was returned to the prosecutor's office. On January 16, 2024, it became known that the Leninsky District Court of Orenburg returned to the prosecutor’s office the case of 56-year-old Irina Solntseva, accused under Part 1 of Art.

The war in Ukraine has changed Russian society in many ways. One of the most anticipated areas of these changes is related to nationalism, and these changes are certainly taking place. This article will discuss only those changes that directly relate to the Russian nationalists’ movement, that is, a wide and extremely heterogeneous set of politically active people who define themselves mainly as nationalists.

A resident of Bologoe received two years probation. At the end of 2023, the Bologovo City Court of the Tver Region sentenced a resident of Bologovo under Part 2 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremist activities).

A new case has been opened in Pskov under Art. 280.3 CC. On January 17, 2024, in Pskov, local activist Danila Afonin was detained as part of an investigation into a case under Part 1 of Art. 280.3 of the Criminal Code (repeated discrediting of the use of the Russian armed forces). The case was opened in December 2023. What exactly became the reason for the criminal prosecution of Afonin is still unknown.

Measures to combat trash streams and videos with scenes of violence involve criminal and administrative liability, as well as extrajudicial blocking of content. The approximate programs of legislative work of the State Duma of Russia for January and February 2024 include a package of three bills. They were introduced into the lower house of parliament on December 7, 2023. The goal of the initiative is to counter online broadcasts of illegal violent actions and calls for such actions.

A group of deputies decided to expand the list of grounds for termination of citizenship. The need for changes is justified by the words of Alexander Bastrykin about the increase in crime among migrants.

A resident of Novocheboksarsk is accused of publishing a video denying the Holocaust on a social network. On January 17, 2024, the Investigative Committee for the Chuvash Republic announced that the investigation into the criminal case of a 48-year-old resident of Novocheboksarsk had been completed. She is accused under paragraph “c” of Part 2 of Art. 354.1 of the Criminal Code (rehabilitation of Nazism committed using the Internet).

Here we collect cases of persecution under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 of the Administrative Code (public display of symbols of a banned organization) in 2024 for white-blue-white flags (stickers, drawings, etc.), which the authorities consider to be the symbols of the “Freedom of Russia” legion, recognized as terrorist. We believe that bringing to justice under Part 1 of Art.

From January 1 to 14, 2024, videos with scenes of attacks on people of “non-Slavic appearance,” homeless people, and drunk people again appeared in far-right Telegram channels. And also videos where the far right broke windows in kiosks identified as belonging to gypsies and migrants, cut the wheels of cars with license plates from Dagestan, and stole food from a migrant courier from Yandex.delivery.