The reason for the persecution was the publication of a story about Navalny’s poisoning. On March 4, 2024, the Leninsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don fined Igor Krasnoshtan one thousand rubles under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 of the Administrative Code (propaganda or demonstration of symbols of an extremist organization).

On April 11, 2024, in St. Petersburg, activists of “E.V. Limonov’s Other Russia” held an action “against the importation of masses of migrants from Central Asia and Transcaucasia into the Russian Federation.” Participants of the action picketed on Kirochnaya Street in front of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Migration Affairs in St. Petersburg. Four participants are visible in the photo.

On April 5, 2024, 18-year-old Rashid Rakhimov was detained in Yekaterinburg. Let us recall that in October 2023, the investigative department for the Kalininsky district of St.

The prosecutor asks that Mikhail Reshetnikov be sentenced to four years in prison. On April 11, 2024, during the debate in the Leninsky District Court of Barnaul, the prosecutor asked that 74-year-old Jehovah's Witness Mikhail Reshetnikov be sentenced to four years of imprisonment in a general regime colony under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (participation in the activities of an extremist organization).

Nazi skinhead girls were detained in Moscow. On April 9, 2024, a message appeared in one of the far-right Telegram channels that two girls, Nazi skinheads, had been detained. It is reported that the detainees attacked anti-fascists and pepper-sprayed migrants. One of them has the nickname “Tubikov”, and the second has the nickname “Borovikov” (in honor of the famous Nazi skinhead Dmitry Borovikov ). Sources Based on materials from far-right Telegram channels.

On April 11, 2024, a video appeared in one of the far-right Telegram channels with a scene of an attack on a native of Uzbekistan. The video reports that a young man was lured into a fake date on behalf of an underage girl. Then he was forced to his knees, forced to state his name and citizenship on camera, apologize and “say hello to Pozdnyakov” (the leader of the “Male State” organization, which was declared extremist by the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Court in October 2021).

On April 11, 2024, in Noginsk near Moscow, the Trinity Church, which was under the jurisdiction of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, was demolished. The court decision to demolish the temple as an illegal building was made back in 2016, when the parish considered itself to be part of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Kyiv Patriarchate).

On April 12, 2024, the “Forty Forty” movement tried to disrupt the “ZLOFest” and “Woland Ball” festivals in Moscow. Orthodox activists considered them offensive to the feelings of believers. “Forty Forties” and State Duma deputy from “United Russia” Alexander Spiridonov, who supported them, appealed to the prosecutor’s office with a request to give a legal assessment of the horror film festival “ZLOFest” and the festival of magic and esotericism “Woland’s Ball” held in Moscow on April 13-14.

A Kemerovo resident is accused of publishing comments on the Internet calling for the burning of Roma. In April 2024, a criminal case was opened in Kemerovo under Part 2 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremist activities) against a 28-year-old city resident. Earlier, during Internet monitoring, police officers discovered news on one of the popular resources about a domestic conflict in the village of Podgornoye.

On April 12, 2024, on the third day of Eid al-Fitr, about 20 armed people in balaclavas and with dogs entered the Bulgar mosque in Cheboksary. There were no identifying marks on those who came; they refused to introduce themselves. Those who came blocked the exits from the mosque and began checking the documents of those present at the Juma prayer. Immigrants from Tajikistan with Russian passports were taken to the military registration and enlistment office to check their status.

Vladlen Menshikov was sentenced to 14 years in prison. On April 15, 2024, the Central District Military Court sentenced Rezh resident Vladlen Menshikov to 14 years in prison. He must spend the first 4 years in prison, the remaining years in a maximum security colony. The verdict was made under Art. 275.1 (cooperation with a foreign state), Part 1 of Art. 205.2 (public calls for extremist activities), part 3 of Art. 30 hours 1 tbsp. 205 (preparation for a terrorist attack) of the Criminal Code.

The following is our monthly review of instances of xenophobia and radical nationalism, along with any government countermeasures, for March 2024. SOVA Center became aware of 16 hate-motivated attacks committed this March.

Ali Ibragimov was fined for displaying Nazi symbols. On March 27, 2024, the Novoaltaisky City Court of the Altai Territory fined local resident Ali Ibragimov one thousand rubles under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 Code of Administrative Offenses (propaganda or demonstration of Nazi symbols) Ibragimov published on his VKontakte page a still from the film “The Legend of Sambo” with the flag of Nazi Germany.

They were given suspended prison sentences. The appellate court only slightly changed the additional penalty. On July 19, 2024, the Altai Regional Court considered appeals against the sentence of elderly Jehovah's Witnesses Mikhail Reshetnikov, Yuri Kolotinsky and Anatoly Sarychev under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (participation in the activities of an extremist organization).