On June 24–30, 2024, a new batch of videos with direct actions appeared in far-right Telegram channels. The videos included, in particular, attacks on people of “non-Slavic appearance,” an informal teenager, people on fake dates, alleged drug users, the arson of a residential building, broken glass in a kiosk where migrants work, and cuts in the tires of cars with Dagestan license plates. The “legion 23” group claimed responsibility for one of the attacks.

Sergei Fedorov is charged under Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code. On June 21, 2024, Jehovah's Witness Sergei Fedorov was taken into custody in Petrozavodsk.

Searches were conducted in Kstovo. The alleged leader of the local organization was detained in the Astrakhan region. On July 2, 2024, searches were conducted in Kstovo, Nizhny Novgorod Region, at the homes of Jehovah's Witnesses. Four believers were detained and placed in a temporary detention facility pending the selection of a preventive measure.

Here we present the sentences handed down under paragraph "d" of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code (dissemination of knowingly false information about the use of Russian armed forces and the activities of Russian government agencies abroad based on political, ideological, and social hatred) in 2024. Similar sentences known to us for 2022 are collected here , for 2023 - here , for the first half of 2024 - here .

A 54-year-old resident of the region was detained. On July 2, 2024, the FSB of Russia for the Ivanovo Region reported that a 54-year-old local resident had been detained. A criminal case was opened under Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code (public justification of terrorism). According to the agency, the resident of the region "justified terrorist activity" on a social network banned in our country. During the search, symbols of an extremist organization were found on him.

On the evening of July 1, at the Kolomenskaya metro station in Moscow, a female passenger attacked another passenger wearing a hijab with a knife. The attacker was stopped by other passengers. The victim sprayed pepper spray in the hooligan's face. Both women were detained. According to eyewitnesses, the attacker was drunk. The attack was preceded by a verbal altercation. Sources A female passenger in the Moscow metro attacked a Muslim woman with a knife // Moscow online. 2024. July 2.

On June 27, 2024, it became known that the authorities of St. Petersburg refused to transfer 54 hectares, more than half of the land intended for the reserve, to the Russian Orthodox Church. In the spring, the rector of the Church of St.

In June 2024, we learned of 11 victims of hate-motivated attacks. Some of the attacks were carried out on behalf of the Sparrows Crew group. Previously, this was the name of a Yekaterinburg-based organization that published videos of xenophobic attacks online in 2011-2013, and may have even filmed such videos itself.

Ryazan resident Denis Bolokhnov was convicted for rudeness on a social network. On May 30, 2024, the justice of the peace of judicial district No. 17 of the Oktyabrsky District Court of Ryazan issued a sentence under Part 1 of Article 148 of the Criminal Code (insulting the religious feelings of believers). Local resident Denis Bolokhnov appeared before the court. He was sentenced to 150 hours of community service.