In December 2016, the district court dismissed the claim of the Kirov-Chepetsk Jehovah's Witnesses. In January 2017, it became known that on December 6, 2016, the Kirovo-Chepetsky District Court of the Kirov Region dismissed a lawsuit filed by the local religious organization of Jehovah's Witnesses in the city of Kirovo-Chepetsk to invalidate a warning against extremist activities. The warning was sent to the organization after in the spring of 2016 its chairman was fined 2,000 rubles under Art.

Having achieved the exclusion of "Tannhäuser" from the repertoire and consecrated theater building, the Novosibirsk diocese staged at the Novosibirsk Opera and ballet his opera on the gospel story. The Metropolitan hopes that it will replace the "occult" ballet The Nutcracker. January 11, 2017 in Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater hosted the premiere of the opera "Christmas" commissioned by the local diocese. The opera was staged gospel story, directors consulted in the diocese.

The Committee on Information Policy recommended that the Duma approve in the first reading the amendments prohibiting the founding of media outlets by those convicted of extremist crimes. On January 11, 2017, the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications recommended that the draft amendments to the federal law "On the Mass Media" submitted to the lower house of parliament in December 2015 be adopted in the first reading.

In Yelabuga, a criminal case has been initiated against 28-year-old Ruslan N., 28, for a video posted on the VKontakte social network. In January 2017, in Elabuga, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs opened a criminal case under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting ethnic hatred) against 28-year-old Ruslan N.

On January 11, 2017, Grani.ru published a commentary by historian Nikolai Mitrokhin on an attempt to bring to administrative responsibility for illegal missionary work a St. Petersburg programmer who gave a lecture on yoga. At the first court hearing, it became known that Nail Nasibulin, an employee of the Stavros interregional missionary movement, operating under the auspices of the St.

The criminal case initiated in 2013 under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code. In January 2017, it became known that on December 14, 2016, the criminal case against six Jehovah's Witnesses from Taganrog, Rostov Region, was dropped on exonerating grounds. Believers were accused under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (organization of the activities of an extremist organization or participation in it). The criminal case was initiated in October 2013, and the defendants were then ordered not to leave.

In the city of Gubakha, Perm Territory, an employee of a correctional colony was brought to disciplinary responsibility for the video "Russian wake up! There is a war against you." In January 2017, a local resident in the Perm Territory was disciplined. According to the prosecutor's office, on the page of a resident of Gubakha on a social network, a video "Russian wake up!

In the Kemerovo region, a 28-year-old local resident was fined for the image of the Nazi swastika and the song of the GROT group. In January 2017, the Central District Court of the city of Kemerovo found a 28-year-old local resident guilty under Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (propaganda or public demonstration Nazi paraphernalia or symbols) and fined him 1,000 rubles.

In the Vologda region, 27-year-old a resident of the city of Vologda was fined for xenophobic audio clips and videos on the social network "In contact with". In January 2017, the Vologda City Court delivered a verdict in the criminal case of a 27-year-old resident of the city Vologda, accused under Part 2 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for carrying out extremist activities) and Part 1 of Art. 282 UK (inciting hatred or enmity).

In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, a criminal case has been opened against a 22-year-old resident of the city of Nazarovo for xenophobic slogans, photos and videos on the social network. In January 2017, in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, a criminal case was initiated under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred or enmity) against a 22-year-old resident of the city of Nazarovo.

In the city of Valdai, Novgorod region, 47-year-old Oleg Borovskikh was sentenced to compulsory labor for publishing anti-Gypsy and anti-Ukrainian materials in his LiveJournal. In January 2017, the Valdai District Court issued a guilty verdict in the criminal case of Oleg Borovskikh. He was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred and enmity).