Resident of Nizhnevartovsk sentenced to six years in prison for involvement to Hizb ut-Tahrir. On October 31, 2016, the Volga District Military Court issued an indictment sentence to a resident of Nizhnevartovsk for involvement in Hizb ut-Tahrir. He is recognized guilty under Part 2 of Art. 205.5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (participation in the activities of terrorist organizations) and Part 1 of Art.

The reason for initiating a criminal case under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code served as the publication of the video on the social network VKontakte. November 1, 2016 Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for Vladimir region announced the initiation of a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (excitation enmity and hatred on the basis of attitude to a social group) against a 21-year-old resident of Gorokhovets.

In October 2016, as a result of racist and neo-Nazi motivated attacks injured at least 4 people in Moscow and Omsk region, one of which - a native of Armenia in Omsk - died. Total since the beginning of the year, according to our data, from racist violence 5 people died and 47 were injured, three received death threats. racist attacks were recorded in 11 regions of Russia. At least 4 acts took place in October neo-Nazi vandalism in the Kaliningrad and Rostov regions, the Republic Karelia.

In Omsk, 40-year-old Alexander Edelev was sentenced for xenophobic photos and statements on the social network. On November 1, 2015, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Omsk Region announced that the court had sentenced 40-year-old Alexander Edelev. He was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred or enmity).

In Kirov, on the fence around the building of Jehovah's Witnesses Threats were found. On October 27, 2016, two unknown people covered the fence with threats around the building of Jehovah's Witnesses in Kirov. Threats against the believers of this organizations were written 17 meters of fence. Members of the community discovered the inscriptions on October 28 and brought the fence in order.

At the end of October 2016, a trial in the case of a resident of Nizhnekamsk began in the Republic of Tatarstan Iskanderov, accused of publishing a video and audio recording calling for religious hatred. At the end of October 2016, the Nizhnekamsk City Court began considering the criminal case of Iskanderov, accused under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting ethnic and religious hatred).

Head of the Synodal Department for Church Relations with society and the media Vladimir Legoyda defended the rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar" from the attacks of the Orthodox public, calling not to confuse the non-canonical with the blasphemous.

The copyright holder appealed to the Oktyabrsky District Court of Novosibirsk with a complaint against the ban on the reproduction of Vasya Lozhkin's painting. November 1, 2016 lawyer Damir Gaynutdinov reported that the Moscow businessman Alexei Khodorkovsky, who is owner of the rights to use the painting by Vasya Lozhkin, appealed the decision to ban its reproduction.