The Belgorod prosecutor's office asks the court to close two organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses for extremism. In January 2016, it became known that the Belgorod Regional Court accepted the application of acting. the regional prosecutor on the termination of the activities of the communities of Jehovah's Witnesses in Belgorod and Stary Oskol. The prosecutor's office asks to liquidate religious organizations in connection with their extremist activities.

In January 2016, in Tver, the case against 40-year-old local resident Andrey Bubeev, who is accused of publishing materials on the social network VKontakte calling for extremism and violation of territorial integrity countries. The case was opened in September 2015. The trial in the case began on February 17. In September 2015, a criminal case was opened in Tver against Andrei Bubeev (born 1975). In January 2016, the investigation of the case was completed in Tver.

In the Stavropol Territory, a criminal case was initiated against a local resident accused of creating a religious association and using hypnosis to manipulate parishioners. January 26, 2016 announced the initiation of a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 239 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (creation religious association whose activities involve violence against citizens) against 32-year-old resident of Stavropol Dmitry Savin.

In January 2016, in the city of Maikop, Republic of Adygea, the court recognized guilty of inciting national hatred of a 17-year-old local resident who published racist video on social media. In January 2016, in the city of Maikop, Republic of Adygea, a verdict was passed in the case of inciting ethnic hatred (Part 1, Article 282 of the Criminal Code).

The Maikop city court began hearings on the case of the publication of an article about a pig farm as complicity in extremism. On January 26, 2016, the Maykop City Court began considering a criminal case against ecologist Valery Brinikh, who is accused of aiding in inciting hatred (part 5 of article 33 and part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code) in connection with the publication of an article about a pig farm.

In January 2016 in the Tula region the court fined a local resident Yevgeny K. for 1 thousand rubles, who published banned audio clip in the social network. In January 2016, in the Belevka district of the Tula region, there were initiated an administrative case under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (distribution extremist materials).

Inna Svyatenko wants to protect children in the subway with content filters. Inna Svyatenko, chairman of the Moscow City Duma Commission on Security, proposes to limit access to information available through the free Wi-Fi network in the Moscow metro in order to protect children at the legislative level.

In January 2016 in Pskov the court fined a local resident for posting a banned racist song in social network. In January 2016, an administrative case was initiated in Pskov under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (dissemination of extremist materials). The case was initiated against a local resident who published in social network "VKontakte" a certain racist audio clip, which was previously was included in the Federal List of Extremist Materials.

In January 2016 in the city of Glazov, Udmurt Republic in the court filed a lawsuit demanding that 5 photos from signatures that call for violence against people from the Caucasus. In January 2016, in the city of Glazov, Udmurt Republic, the prosecutor's office filed a lawsuit with the court to recognize 5 xenophobic images as extremist, published under a pseudonym by a minor local resident in the social networks "VKontakte".

In December 2015, the border service did not let people into Russia pastor of the St. Petersburg Baptist Church "Keystone" Shay Fountain, US citizen, although his visa is valid until August 2016. January 2016 pastor filed a complaint with the court against the actions of the border service. On January 25, 2016 it became known that in December 2015 Russian border guards banned Baptist pastor Shay Fountain from entering Russia. A US citizen, since the 2000s he has served in St.

In the Smolny Cathedral of St. Petersburg, concert activities have been stopped, the organ was dismantled, the building was transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church. On January 25, 2016, the authorities of St. Petersburg handed over to the Russian Orthodox Church Smolny Cathedral. Since January, the concert has been stopped in the cathedral activities, and on January 25, the director of the museum-monument "St.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) communicated the complaint of a blogger who was convicted in 2008 for commenting on "unfaithful cops". On January 26, 2016, it became known that on January 7, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) communicated the complaint of blogger Savva Terentyev against the sentence under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (actions aimed at inciting hatred on the basis of belonging to a social group, committed in public).