The court fined Ilya Startsev 400 thousand rubles under Art. 282.3 CC. On April 17, 2024, the Zavodskoy District Court of Orel sentenced English teacher Ilya Startsev. The court found him guilty of financing extremist activities (Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code) and imposed a fine of 400 thousand rubles. The state prosecutor asked Startsev to be sentenced to a fine of 500 thousand rubles.

On April 17, 2024, the Judicial Department of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation published statistical information on the number of cases under Art. 5.26 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (violation of legislation on freedom of conscience, freedom of religion and religious associations), considered by the courts for 2023.

On April 18, 2024, the 2nd Western District Military Court sentenced Voronezh resident Andrei Biryukov to four years in prison because of his speech in court. Previously, Biryukov was convicted for posts on VKontakte. Taking into account the verdict in the previous criminal case, the total sentence will be six years in prison. Biryukov was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 205.2 of the Criminal Code (public calls for terrorist activities) and Part 1 of Art.

On December 28, 2023, the Nerchinsko-Zavodsky District Court of the Trans-Baikal Territory received a case of beating a veteran of the Northern Military District. There are five accused in the dock. Vladislav Aleksandrov, Ivan Zyryanov and Sergey Piskarev are accused under Part 1 of Art. 167 (intentional destruction or damage to property), paragraph “b”, part 2 of Art. 115 (intentional infliction of slight harm to health, committed with the motive of hatred), part 2 of Art.

On April 17, 2024, it became known about the demolition of the Druzhba prayer house between Mytishchi and Lobnya. The court made the decision to demolish the illegal building back in 2021. A previous attempt to demolish the building was made in November 2023, but then the community agreed with the authorities on a delay. Let us remind you that earlier the Abu Bakr prayer house was demolished in Troitsk . Sources Another mosque was demolished near Moscow // IslamNews. 2024. April 17.

Three residents of Kuban became suspects under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code. On April 18, 2024, the investigative department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Krasnodar Territory reported that the Korenovsky Interdistrict Investigation Department opened three criminal cases under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (participation in the activities of an extremist organization) in relation to Jehovah's Witnesses from the Vyselkovsky district.

The judicial department at the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation published the statistics of the application of the articles of the Criminal Code and the Code of Administrative Offenses for 2023. We give data regarding the application of the provisions on public statements and prohibited organizations, the distribution of prohibited materials and symbols.

Khaidarali Ashurov was convicted under Art. 205.5, 205.2 and 280 CC. On April 17, 2024, the Southern District Military Court sentenced citizen of Tajikistan Khaidarali Ashurov. The court found him guilty of preparing for participation in a terrorist organization (Part 2 of Article 205.5 using Part 1 of Article 30 of the Criminal Code), public calls for extremism (Part 1 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code) and justification of terrorism (Part 1 of Art. 205.2 CC).

12 members of the neo-Nazi group “White Suit” were detained in Crimea. On April 16 and 17, 2024, members of the White Suit group were detained in Crimea. According to investigators, during searches in Kerch, Yalta, Sevastopol and Feodosia, correspondence with members of volunteer detachments fighting on the side of Ukraine was found on the suspects’ phones. Knives, weapons, pepper spray, extremist literature and clothing with neo-Nazi symbols were confiscated from them.

The reason for the arrest of nationalist Sergei Sergeev was a post mentioning Navalny. On April 16, 2024, the Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow arrested for five days under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 Code of Administrative Offenses (public display of symbols of a banned organization) by historian and publicist Sergei Sergeev. The reason was a post on Facebook mentioning Alexei Navalny. It was posted on the social network on February 16, 2024 and was dedicated to the memory of the oppositionist.

The Supreme Court of Bashkortostan added additional punishment to the ex-chairman of the banned organization “Bashkort” Fail Alsynov (Alchinov). On April 18, 2024, the Supreme Court of Bashkiria added an additional punishment to the sentence of Fail Alsynov, the ex-chairman of the Bashkort organization, which was banned in May 2020 for carrying out extremist activities.

Olga Kuzmina was punished under Article 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. On April 18, 2024, the Central District Court of Krasnoyarsk fined Olga Kuzmina 10 thousand rubles under Article 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (incitement of hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity). The reason was three publications that she made on her VKontakte page under the pseudonym "Olga Protasova".

In September 2024, a verdict was passed in the Trans-Baikal Territory in the case of an attack on a veteran of the Northern Military District. The defendants were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. On December 28, 2023, the Nerchinsko-Zavodsky District Court of the Trans-Baikal Territory received a case of beating a veteran of the Northern Military District. There are five accused in the dock: Vladislav Aleksandrov, Ivan Zyryanov and Sergey Piskarev, who are accused under Part 1 of Art.

Residents of Kuban are accused under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code. On September 4, 2024, it became known that the investigation into the cases of Jehovah’s Witnesses from Vyselki, Krasnodar Territory, Vladimir Lepsky, Natalya Novoseletskaya and Irina Ushakova, had been completed. They are accused under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (participation in the activities of an extremist organization).

Police officers conducted a preventive conversation with a 12-year-old schoolboy who brought a headband with a swastika and a poster with Nazi symbols to school. On April 17, 2024, the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Nizhny Novgorod Region announced a preventive conversation with a 12-year-old teenager who brought a homemade headband with a swastika and a poster with Nazi symbols to school.