In Omsk, the case of a 24-year-old student for xenophobic comments on a social network was sent to court. In December 2016, in Omsk, the investigation of a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred).

In December 2016, in the city of Naberezhnye Chelny, Republic of Tatarstan, a court fined a 27-year-old local resident, finding him guilty of posting photographs with Nazi symbols on a social network. In December 2016, in the city of Naberezhnye Chelny of the Republic of Tatarstan, an administrative case was initiated under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (propaganda and public display of Nazi symbols).

An ultra-right activist from St. Petersburg is accused of inciting hatred against employees of the "E" centers. December we learned that in St. Petersburg, a case under Part 1 of Art. 282 UK (inciting hatred on the basis of origin and membership of a social group) against the far right activist Dina Garina. The case was opened in connection with the speech Garina at a rally on March 15, 2015, during which she commented the work of employees of the "E" centers.

Activist Roman Grishin became a suspect in the case of inciting ethnic hatred. On December 18, 2016, Roman Grishin, a resident of Kaluga, reported on his page on the social network Facebook that on November 17 they came to work FSB officers in balaclavas and special equipment and delivered him to the investigator. To him it was announced that he was suspected of inciting national hatred under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code.

In December 2016, a criminal case was initiated in Krasnodar under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code and part 2 of Art. 205.2 of the Criminal Code against a 19-year-old local resident who published a certain banned book on a social network. In December 2016, a criminal case was initiated in Krasnodar under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred) and part 2 of Art. 205.2 of the Criminal Code (calls for terrorism).

In December 2016, in the city of Nolinsk, Kirov Region, a court sentenced 19-year-old Dmitry Arsenyev to 160 hours of compulsory labor, who was found guilty of posting xenophobic materials on a social network. In December 2016, in the city of Nolinsk, Kirov Region, a verdict was pronounced in the case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred) and part . 2 tbsp. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremism).

In December 2016, in the city of Bor, Nizhny Novgorod Region, a court sentenced a 24-year-old local resident to 3 years of imprisonment on probation, finding him guilty under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code, art. 280 of the Criminal Code and art. 212 of the Criminal Code. In December 2016, in the city of Bor, Nizhny Novgorod Region, a verdict was pronounced in the case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred), part . 2 tbsp.

In December 2016, two criminal cases were initiated in Bryansk against 18-year-old and 31-year-old local residents suspected of posting xenophobic materials on social networks. In December 2016, two criminal cases were initiated in Bryansk under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred). Cases were initiated against 18-year-old and 31-year-old residents of the city, who, according to law enforcement agencies, published some xenophobic materials on the Internet.

The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Liski, Tula Region, has lost ownership of the prayer house after it was removed from the register legal entities for failure to provide financial statements, but restored the right property in court. On December 5, 2016, the Arbitration Court of the Tula Region recognized the Seventh-day Adventist Church's ownership of the House of Prayer building in city ​​of Lipki.

Witness buildings searched in Smolensk and Sochi Jehovah. In both cases, the service was disrupted. On December 17, in Sochi, police officers and Cossacks came to building of Jehovah's Witnesses, blocked all doors, expelled believers from the hall, except two people, and conducted a search. During the search, a publication included in the Federal list of extremist literature. One of the witnesses who came with the police, according to the testimony believers, helped knock out the gate.

On December 16, 2016, it became known that the prosecutor's office issued warning to a student of South Ural State University Ekaterina Omelchenko, who created a petition against the construction of a chapel in Chelyabinsk. The prosecutor's office of the Central District of Chelyabinsk, deciding that "in in the future, it is possible to commit acts that incite religious hatred and enmity” , warned the student about the inadmissibility of “illegal actions”, provided for in Art.