On December 21, the Supreme Court of Crimea dismissed appeals to extend the arrest of four defendants in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case - Emil Dzhemadenov, Teymur Abdullayev, Uzeyir Abdullayev and Vadim Siruk. This was reported in the Facebook group “Crimean Solidarity”.

On December 21, the Tverskoy District Court imposed a fine of 10,000 rubles on Konstantin Tselms for a single picket at the Prosecutor General's Office in support of Ildar Dadin - under part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. Tselms told OVD-Info about this.

A resident of Yekaterinburg, Pavel Volkov, who was charged with inciting hatred (under Article 282 of the Criminal Code), spent the night at the police station before being secretly taken to court on December 21 by a lawyer to consider the issue of a measure of restraint. This was told to OVD-Info by a member of the Public Monitoring Commission for the Sverdlovsk Region, Sergei Zykov, who arrived that day to check in OP-5.

The Orel administration refused to allow the Native Eagle public movement to hold a rally against the region's governor, Vadim Potomsky, on Lenin Square. This was reported on December 20 by the Oryol News news agency. As the government's refusal was explained, the declared number of participants in the public event (ten thousand people) does not meet the norms for the maximum occupancy of the area, which is set at one person per square meter.

The leader of the movement "God's will" Dmitry Enteo and Orthodox activist Lyudmila Esipenko were detained by police at a rally at Stalin's grave. At that moment, when fans of the “Leader of the Peoples” from the Communist Party laid bouquets at the bust of their idol in honor of his recent birthday, Enteo and Esipenko threw carnation flowers at the monument with the words “Burn in hell”, “Judas”, “Killer of the Russian people” . this Enteo announced on his Twitter on December 21.

The Investigative Committee terminated the criminal case of slander against judges, which was previously opened in the Stavropol Territory against Professor, Doctor of Law, historian of law and Honored Lawyer of Russia Larisa Svechnikova in connection with the publication of the article “The Judicial System of the Russian Federation - the Stavropol Regional Court: on the Edge of the Abyss”.

The European Court of Human Rights has ordered Russia to pay 900 euros in compensation to The Other Russia activist Igor Berezyuk , convicted on charges of participating in clashes on Manezhnaya Square in Moscow in December 2010. that His lawyer, Dmitry Agranovskiy, told TASS on December 21 the ECHR had concluded that a provision of the European Convention prohibiting the unlawful extension of detention had been violated.

On December 21, the State Duma adopted in the third reading the powers of FSIN officers to use force against convicts. This was reported by the online publication Meduza with reference to the online broadcast of the State Duma meeting.