Another LGBT organization has been declared extremist. On April 7, 2026, the Sverdlovsk Regional Court granted the claim of the territorial department of the Ministry of Justice of Russia to liquidate the LGBT Resource Center operating in Yekaterinburg for carrying out extremist activities. The claim was filed in court on February 27, 2026.

Resume Anti-extremist and related legislation is primarily aimed at restricting freedom of speech and freedom of association in order to protect security. And such use of this legislation has grown very rapidly in 2025. Contrary to expectations, no “plateauing” occurred; on the contrary, in many respects the rate of growth has only increased compared to the previous year, and this applies to almost all types of enforcement examined in this report.

He was convicted under Art. 282.3 CC. On March 19, 2026, the Ordzhonikidze District Court of Yekaterinburg sentenced programmer Maxim G. under Part 1 of Art. 282.3 of the Criminal Code (financing of extremism). He was sentenced to a fine of 300 thousand rubles. He was accused of making seven transfers totaling 12 thousand rubles from August 5, 2021 to February 5, 2022 in favor of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), which was recognized as an extremist organization.

From March 30 to April 5, 2026, a new series of videos with direct actions appeared in far-right Telegram channels. The video showed attacks on people of non-Slavic appearance, a punk, a drunk person, broken windows in a building, and cuts on car wheels. Violence On April 1, a video appeared of the attackers chasing a passerby on the sidewalk near the fence. One overtook the victim and shot him in the face with a gas canister.