MOSCOW, November 3 (RAPSI, Oleg Sivozhelezov) – Russia’s Supreme Court plenum had amended its resolution on crimes of extremist nature of 2011 clarifying, among other issues, those concerning the classification of actions related to publishing of information regarded as incitement of hatred and enmity on the Internet, RAPSI learnt at the Supreme Court plenum meeting on Thursday.

Thus, in his speech a Supreme Court judge noted that certain problems were faced when classifying reposts on social networks and stressed the necessity to assess actions regarded as incitement of hatred and enmity more thoroughly.

In the final version of the Supreme Court plenum resolution on cases relating to crimes of extremist nature a provision stating that courts should proceed from all facts of such cases and take into account the context, form and nature of information published, content of commentaries, if any, or attitudes towards such information expressed in any other format when addressing the issue if the motivations behind the actions of a person publishing such information or expressing his/her attitude towards such information were to incite hatred, or enmity, or to humiliate a person or a group of persons.

Some amendments were also made to a Supreme Court plenum resolution on particulars of judicial practice with regard to crimes of terrorist nature, adopted in 2012.