Editing Ynglism (section)

===Judicial prosecution===
Tensions between the Ynglist Church and authorities began in 1997 when complaints accused the former for its use of ''[[swastika]]''-like religious symbolism and for [[ultranationalism]].{{sfn|Shnirelman|2017b|p=91}} Years later, in 2004, the headquarters of the Ynglist Church in Omsk, namely the "Spiritual Administration of the Asgardian Country of Belovodye", were prosecuted and dissolved as "extremist organisations" by decision of the Omsk Regional Court,<ref name="MoJ-extremist-organisations">{{cite web|title=Перечень НКО, ликвидированных в соответствии с ФЗ "О противодействии экстремистской деятельности" (обновлено по состоянию на 19 февраля 2021 г.) |work=Министерство юстиции Российской Федерации |trans-title=List of NPOs liquidated in accordance with the Federal Law "On Countering Extremist Activities" (updated as of 19 February 2021) |publisher=[[Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation]] |url=https://minjust.gov.ru/ru/documents/7822/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210310151542/https://minjust.gov.ru/ru/documents/7822/ |archive-date=10 March 2021}}</ref>{{rp|entries 4, 5, 6}} a decision which was appealed at the [[Supreme Court of Russia]] later that year, but was upheld by the court.{{sfn|Matytsin|2009|loc=passim}} The reasons for the prosecution were once again the use of ''swastika'' symbols and the teachings about the unhealthiness of interracial mixing; Aleksandr Khinevich himself was prosecuted in 2008–2009 by the Omsk District Court, which found him guilty of having illegally reorganised the church and continued to propagate its teachings, under the article 282 of the [[Criminal Code of the Russian Federation]], and on 11 June 2009 sentenced him to the punishment of one year and a half of prison, conditional with two years of probation.{{sfnm|1a1=Matytsin|1y=2009|1loc=passim|2a1=Maltsev|2y=2015|2loc=passim|3a1=Aitamurto|3y=2016|3p=51|4a1=Golovneva|4y=2018|4p=341}}

In 2008, a local Ynglist organisation in [[Adygea]] was prosecuted by the [[Maykop]] District Court,<ref name="MoJ-extremist-organisations"/>{{rp|entry 26}} while in 2015 an Ynglist organisation in [[Stavropol Krai]] was prosecuted by the [[Stavropol]] Regional Court.<ref name="MoJ-extremist-organisations"/>{{rp|entry 45}} In the same year 2015 it was the turn of the ''Slavo-Aryan Vedas'', the sacred writings of Ynglism, to be condemned as "extremist literature" by the Omsk District Court, a decision which was later appealed but confirmed in 2016 by the Omsk Regional Court.{{sfnm|1a1=Maltsev|1y=2015|1loc=passim|2a1=Yashin|2y=2016|2p=39|3a1=Shnirelman|3y=2017b|3p=91}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Экстремистские материалы |trans-title=Extremist materials |work=Министерство юстиции Российской Федерации |publisher=[[Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation]] |url=https://minjust.gov.ru/ru/extremist-materials/?page=34 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127005226/https://minjust.gov.ru/ru/extremist-materials/?page=34 |archive-date=27 November 2020}}</ref>{{rp|entry 3353}}