Extremism

Tag: Extremism

Bill on extremist materials database becomes law in Russia

President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin has enacted a bill on the specialized information database of extremist materials into law.

12:12 15.07.2022

Russia’s State Duma backs creation of extremist materials database

The lower house of parliament, the State Duma, adopted a bill to create a specialized information database of extremist materials in a final third reading on Tuesday.

13:24 05.07.2022

Russian court upholds nationwide ban on Meta

The Moscow City Court upheld on Monday the prohibition of Meta Platforms Inc in Russia for extremist activity.

17:38 20.06.2022

Cabinet backs ban on persons involved in extremism to work as pilots and flight attendants

The Government Commission on Legislative Activities has approved an initiative to ban those involved in extremist activities, including those who publish posts on social networks that incite hatred and enmity, from working as pilots or flight attendants.

15:29 15.10.2021

Navalny’s suit against prosecutors, Roskomnadzor over website blocking rejected

Moscow’s Tverskoy District Court on Monday dismissed an administrative lawsuit filed by Alexey Navalny against the Prosecutor General’s Office and Russia’s communications watchdog Roskomnadzor over blocking of his websites.

15:55 11.10.2021

Extremism case opened against Navalny and two his associates

A criminal case over creation of an extremist community has been launched against Alexey Navalny and his allies Leonid Volkov and Ivan Zhdanov.

15:36 28.09.2021

Russian Prosecutor General proposes to classify glorification of Nazism as extremism

15:33 07.09.2021

Case opened over organization of banned movement’s cell in Moscow detention center

Investigators have initiated probe into the organization of a cell of the banned movement Arestantskoye Ugulovnoye Yedinstvo / Criminal Unity of Inmates (AUE) in Moscow’s detention center Matrosskaya Tishina.

13:25 30.08.2021

Sentence of New Greatness extremism movement member in extremism case upheld

The Moscow City Court on Thursday upheld sentence against a member of the New Greatness movement Pavel Rebrovsky for organization of an extremist community.

12:56 26.08.2021

Alleged leader of Crimean cell of banned Jehovah’s Witnesses put in detention

A court in Simferopol, Crimea, on Tuesday placed alleged organizer of the Yalta cell of Jehovah’s Witnesses, a religious organization banned in Russia as extremist, in detention.

12:09 17.08.2021

New criminal case opened of Navalny’s allies Zhdanov and Volkov

Investigators have launched a new criminal case against Ivan Zhdanov, ex-director of the foundation founded by Alexey Navalny, and another blogger’s ally Leonid Volkov, over alleged funding of an extremist organization.

12:01 10.08.2021

Prohibition of regional cell of foreign extremist movement upheld

The Eighth Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction on Thursday dismissed an appeal lodged by the representatives of a cell of Falun Dafa movement (Chinese religious doctrine Falun Gong) in Russia’s Republic of Khakassia against prohibition of the organization’s activity as extremist.

16:15 29.07.2021

Russian President bans extremists from running for election

President of Russia Vladimir Putin on Friday signed a bill temporarily prohibiting persons having links to extremist and terrorist organizations to run for elections at all levels into law.

13:24 04.06.2021

Sentence of videographer of Navalny’s foundation in extremism case reduced by month

The Moscow City Court on Tuesday reduced a two-year jail sentence imposed on Pavel Zelensky, a camera-control engineer of a foundation founded by Alexey Navalny and recognized as foreign agent, for calls for extremism by one month.

15:00 01.06.2021

Chair of banned Majlis of Crimean Tatars sentenced to 6-year imprisonment in absentia

The Supreme Court of Crimea on Tuesday sentenced Refat Chubarov, chairman of Majlis of Crimean Tatars banned in Russia as extremist, to 6 years in prison in absentia for organizing mass riots.

13:59 01.06.2021

MPs back bill banning extremists from running for State Duma election

State Duma lawmakers passed a draft law prohibiting persons having links to extremist and terrorist organizations to run for elections in the lower house of parliament in the second reading on Tuesday.

15:10 25.05.2021

Moscow court suspends activity of Navalny’s foundation and offices

The Moscow City Court on Monday suspended activities of the foundation established by Alexey Navalny, which had been declared a foreign agent, and the organization’s seats until a prosecutor’s lawsuit seeking to declare them extremists is resolved.

12:00 26.04.2021

Videographer of Navalny’s foundation to be imprisoned for 2 years in extremism case

Pavel Zelensky, a camera-control engineer of a foundation founded by Alexey Navalny, on Friday received two years in penal colony as part of an extremism case.

16:47 16.04.2021

State Duma committee backs extremist materials database bill

The State Duma Anti-Corruption and Safety Committee on Wednesday recommended that the lawmakers should adopt in the first reading a government legislative proposal to create a specialized information database of extremist materials.

17:12 07.04.2021

Three alleged extremists arrested in Rostov-on-Don on vandalism plot allegations

Three alleged members of an extremist group have been arrested in Rostov-on-Don on suspicion of federal building vandalism plotting.

13:53 26.03.2021