Protesting miners from the town of Gukovo in the Rostov region were not allowed to leave in an organized manner for Moscow to meet with deputies of the State Duma. This was reported on December 19 on the website of Nezavisimaya Gazeta.

On December 14, the service of Jehovah's Witnesses in Tula was interrupted by the police, and on December 18, law enforcement officers came to the service in Smolensk. This was reported to OVD-Info by the press service of the Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia.

The Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation refused to consider the cassation appeal against the verdict against Ildar Dadin, convicted under Art. 212.1 (repeated violations of the legislation on rallies). His wife Anastasia Zotova wrote about this on her Facebook page. In 2015, Dadin was sentenced by the Basmanny Court of Moscow to three years in prison. Later the prison term was reduced to two and a half years.

On December 19, the Presnensky District Court of Moscow once again extended the term of house arrest for nationalist Dmitry Demushkin, who is accused of extremism for publishing a photo from the Russian March on VKontakte. The arrest has been extended until February 21, 2017. It is reported by Komsomolskaya Pravda. A criminal case has been opened against Demushkin for publishing a photo from last year's Russian March on VKontakte.

FSB officers in the village of Uralsky, Nytvensky District, Perm Territory, detained sixteen-year-old Mark R. right during school lessons. The teenager was charged with incitement to extremist activity (part 2 of article 280 of the Criminal Code). This is reported by the local Periscope agency, citing its own source. The schoolboy was interrogated at the regional department of the FSB, now Mark is under house arrest and attends school.

Blogger from Tver Andrey Bubeev, who was sentenced to 2 years 3 months on charges of extremism, is being transferred by the court to a general regime colony; the court decision comes into force on December 23. His wife, Anastasia, wrote about this on Facebook. “During my stay in Tver pre-trial detention center No. 1, more than 62 violations were recorded in my personal file (sitting down wrong, standing up wrong, etc.) so that there were reasons for being placed in a punishment cell.

The prosecutor's office of the Central District of Chelyabinsk brought to a student at the Faculty of Journalism of the South Ural State University, Yekaterina Omaterina Omaterina Omaterinko, a warning about a possible violation of three articles at once: violation of the legislation on freedom of conscience (Article 5.26 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), violation of the right to freedom of conscience and religion (Article 148 of the Criminal Code) and public calls for extremist

On November 17, FSB officers came to work to a resident of Kaluga, Roman Grishin, and took him to the investigator. After a conversation on camera, Grishin was told that he was accused of inciting hatred or enmity (part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code) for reposting a video in 2014. Roman Grishin wrote about this on December 18 on Facebook. Now he is under house arrest in the status of a suspect in a criminal case. FSB group. In balaclavas, in special equipment.