The police and thugs from the pro-government movements NOD and SERB came to the conference on the forms and experience of activism "Protest as a Quest". This was reported to OVD-Info by Daria Serenko, a participant in the conference. According to her, the titushki kicked out the door to the hall where the conference was taking place. Then the police came to the event and began to demand a lease agreement for the premises.

In Adygeya, on October 2, police searched the home of Region Online journalist Yana Toporkova as part of a criminal case on a fake about coronavirus. This is reported by MBH Media with reference to the editor-in-chief of Region Online, Liana Yankina.

In Nizhny Novgorod, activist Alexei Onoshkin was detained for pitching a tent at the memorial to journalist Irina Slavina. Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod Memorial Arkady Galker told OVD-Info about this. The activist pitched the tent so that no one would remove the flowers and candles laid at the site of Slavina’s death. Around midnight, police detained him and took him to police department No. 5. They asked the activist for an explanation.