In December 2015, a criminal case was brought to court in Severodvinsk against a 24-year-old local resident for xenophobic images on the VKontakte social network. On December 16, 2015, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Arkhangelsk Region and the Nenets Autonomous Okrug completed a preliminary investigation against a 24-year-old resident of Severodvinsk. He is charged under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred).

The court fined an 18-year-old citizen of Kirov for 150 thousand rubles for publication of materials calling for terrorist actions and aimed at to incite hostility towards one of the religious groups. December 16, 2015 The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Kirov region announced the conviction of an 18-year-old resident of the region. He was found guilty under Part 1 of Art.

On December 16, 2015, a criminal case on public statements and calls for violence against Armenians was submitted to the court in the Rostov region. On December 16, 2015, the Salsky MSO of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Rostov Region completed the investigation of the criminal case against Alik Ibragimov.

On December 16, 2015, as part of the case of re-establishing the banned “Army of the People’s Will,” a search was conducted at the home of IGPR “ZOV” activist Kirill Barabash. On December 16, 2015, law enforcement officers conducted a search in the apartment of Kirill Barabash, an activist of the Initiative Group for a Referendum “For Responsible Power” (IGPR “ZOV”). According to the initiative group, as a result of the search, a stack of Barabash’s work papers was seized.

In the Kirov region, a criminal case on insult religious feelings. The suspects are two local residents who hung an effigy on worship cross. On December 16, 2015, it became known about the initiation of a criminal cases against two residents of the Vyatskopolyansky district of the Kirov region. They suspected under Part 1 of Art. 148 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public actions expressing a clear disrespect for society in order to offend the religious feelings of believers).

December 16, 2015 in the Federal list of extremist organizations published on the official website of the Ministry of Justice, one organization was added.

On December 16, 2015, in the Tver region, a court imposed an administrative arrest on a resident of the Rameshkovsky district for posting Nazi symbols on a social network.

December 14, 2015 the Federal List was updated again extremist materials. Item 3180 was added to it. The list was supplemented by Nazi skinhead materials on the Internet. Update of the Federal List of Extremist Materials dated December 14, 2015 3180.

In December 2015, in Otradnoye, Samara Region, the head of the housing and maintenance service was fined for having a swastika on the facade of a house. In December 2015, the prosecutor's office of Otradnoye, Samara Region, announced that it had found violations of the requirements of the Federal Law "On Counteracting Extremist Activity" in the activities of Otradnoye KSK LLC. Nazi symbols - the swastika - were painted on the end wall of the house at 80 Pobedy Street.

On December 15, 2015, the court of the Central District of the city of Kaliningrad recognized the song of the Faberge Eggs group as extremist material. On December 15, 2015, the court, at the request of the Central District Prosecutor of the city of Kaliningrad recognized as extremist material the song of the group "Eggs Faberge.

On November 23, 2015, the Moscow City Court granted the claim of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation for the liquidation of the Church of Scientology in Moscow. The decision was made, among other things, on the basis of a religious studies examination carried out by the head of the Department of Religious Studies of the Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University Larisa Astakhova.

The ECtHR informed the Sochi pastor Aleksey Kolyasnikov that his complaint about the fine for reading the Bible in a cafe is registered. On December 14, 2015 it became known that the European Court of Human Rights of a person registered a complaint of the leader of the Evangelical Christian group “Community Christians” by Aleksey Kolyasnikov, challenging the legitimacy of the fine for reading Bibles in a cafe.