at eliminating either the reasons or the conditions facilitating extremist activity, which in turn served as a basis for the systematic violation of legislation on combating the extremist activity perpetrated by a number of elements in the structure of the Organization. The administrative claimant holds that the extremist activities of the structural branches of the Organization, in the absence of any concrete organizational and practical measures from the Organization to prevent violations of the Federal Law on combating extremist activities, threaten to violate the rights and legitimate interest of an undefined range of persons, as well as threatening public order. For that reason, on the basis of the fourth part of Art. 7, Art. 9 of the Federal Law on Combating Extremist Activities, paragraph 4 Art. 6, paragraph 7 Art. 14 of Federal Law No 125-FZ, 26 of September 1997 on the Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations, the administrative claimant requests the Court to recognize the Organization as extremist, to prohibit its operation, and to liquidate the Organization and its incorporated local organizations of Jehovah’s Witnesses, to exclude them from the Unified State Registry of Legal Entities, to turn the Organization’s property over to the state ownership after satisfying creditors, and to put the ruling on the liquidation of the Organization and its incorporated local branches into effect immediately with respect to suspending their activities. In its written objections, the Organization asks the Court to dismiss the claim, arguing that the Organization is not currently and was not previously involved in extremist activities, and since its establishment was never prosecuted for violating provisions of either the Federal Law on Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations, or the Federal Law on Combating Extremist Activities. The defendant maintains that the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation’s claim violates provisions of articles 28, 29, and 20 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation and international treaties, ratified by the Russian Federation, in particular, the constitutionally protected human rights to freedom of religion and freedom of assembly, protected also by articles 9 and 11 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, as well as articles 18 and 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The defendant claims that liquidating the Organization of Jehovah’s Witnesses and its incorporated local branches will violate their rights, does not serve as a justified measure, does not pursue a legitimate aim, and is not necessary. The defendant considers the informational materials mentioned in the claim to have been unfairly identified as extremist owing to their incorrect evaluation in the relevant cases, which the Organization was not involved in. The Organization is not an author, publisher or a right-holder of the informational materials registered in the Federal Registry of Extremist Materials, it takes all reasonable measures to comply with requirements of anti-extremism legislation, has never funded extremist activities through the financial support of the charter activities of the local religious organizations, which are not its regional or structural branches. The Organization assumes that the courts’ decisions in the cases on administrative offences mentioned by the administrative claimant are not relevant because these decisions were delivered against the Organization. The Organization also guesses that the liquidation of its incorporated branches does not