Since 2022, law enforcement agencies have begun to prosecute citizens under Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (public display of prohibited symbols or attributes) for pro-Ukrainian statements in the form of slogans, symbols, and songs. The most common ones are the slogan "Glory to Ukraine", the trident and the song "Chervona Kalina". In most cases, we consider prosecution for their display and distribution to be unlawful. Why?

On May 31, 2024, it became known that in one of the schools in the city of Mirny in Yakutia, an algebra teacher kicked a seventh-grader wearing a headscarf out of class. The family of 14-year-old Alsu moved to Mirny from Tatarstan in 2023. When she entered the school, the principal and teachers did not complain about the girl wearing a hijab. She attended classes during the school term until the algebra and geometry teacher kicked her out of class for wearing a hijab.

In May 2024, we learned of 51 victims of hate-motivated attacks. Judging by the videos that appeared in far-right Telegram channels, the week from May 6 to 12 was the record-breaking week in terms of the number of incidents since the beginning of the year. Most of the attacks then were dedicated to May 5, a day that the far-right considers "the day of hatred and revenge" and timed to coincide with 40 days since the death of the famous neo-Nazi Maxim Bazylev (Adolf) .

On June 3, 2024, it became known that the Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan considered a joint case on claims of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, the prosecutor of the Vakhitovsky District of Kazan and the Interregional Territorial Administration of the Federal Property Management Agency in Tatarstan and the Ulyanovsk Region and satisfied the claims to invalidate the real estate donation agreement between the local religious organization of Jehovah's Witnesses and the

The reason for the fines against Ekaterina Belyankina was her posts about the responsibility of Russians. On April 18, 2024, the Pushkinsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced Ekaterina Belyankina to two fines of 10 thousand rubles each under Article 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (incitement to hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity).

Stanislav Terentyev was fined two thousand rubles under Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. On May 22, 2024, the Central District Court of Volgograd fined Stanislav Terentyev two thousand rubles under Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (public display of Nazi symbols). The occasion was a collage, the lower part of which was a historical photograph with Nazi flags and the V symbol, and on top was a modern photograph with the same symbol.

A criminal case has been opened in North Ossetia regarding the publication on a social network of an image justifying the ideology of fascism. On June 3, 2024, it became known that a criminal case was opened in Vladikavkaz under paragraph “b” of Part 2 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code (rehabilitation of Nazism).

On May 31, 2024, a video of a knife attack on a man was published on one of the far-right Telegram channels. The video shows the attacker approaching a standing man and asking him something. Then he suddenly pulls out a knife and stabs the man in the stomach. The man screams and tries to move away. A scuffle ensues. At this point, the cameraman (an accomplice of the attacker) points the lens at the ground, so it is unclear whether the victim was further injured.

In Moscow, ultra-rightists attacked participants of a hippie festival. On June 1, 2024, in Moscow, in Tsaritsyno Park, ultra-right teenagers attacked participants of a hippie festival who had gathered for an annual meeting. According to the media's description of the conflict, the skinheads attacked the vacationers, pepper-spraying several people. About 5 people were injured. Then the police arrived. The police received a complaint that the crowd was using drugs and using LGBT symbols.

Dagestani motorists are again accused of displaying symbols of the Krasnodar Nazi skinhead group. On May 3, 2024, the Kazbekovsky District Court of Dagestan fined Kazbek Israfilov one thousand rubles under Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. The reason was a sticker in the form of a pit bull and some abbreviation that was applied to the hood of the car he was driving.

The court hearing of Alexander Lubin's case is coming to an end. On May 28, 2024, the Shadrinsk City Court of the Kurgan Region began the debate of the parties in the case of Jehovah's Witness Alexander Lubin. The state prosecutor asked the court to sentence the disabled person of group II to seven years of suspended imprisonment with a four-year probationary period under Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code (organization of the activities of an extremist organization).

In Buryatia, a case of rehabilitation of Nazism is being investigated against a 22-year-old supporter of the far-right ideology. At the end of May 2024, it became known that a criminal case was opened in Severobaykalsk, Republic of Buryatia, under paragraph "b" of Part 2 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code and Part 4 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code (rehabilitation of Nazism).

The trial of Alexander Lubin's case has ended. On October 7, 2024, the Shadrinsk City Court sentenced Jehovah's Witness Alexander Lubin. The court found him guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (organizing the activities of an extremist organization) and imposed a fine of 500 thousand rubles. The state prosecutor asked the court to sentence Lubin, a disabled person of group II, to seven years of suspended imprisonment with a four-year probationary period.

In early June 2024, it became known that the Russian Orthodox Church and Rospatent had jointly prepared a bill prohibiting the registration of trademarks with religious symbols. It is expected that the bill will be submitted to the State Duma before the end of the spring session. The developers propose to amend the Civil Code to prohibit the use of religious symbols or semantics as trademarks. This is done in order to protect the religious feelings of believers.