In February 2017, a criminal case was initiated in Ryazan under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code against a 27-year-old previously convicted local resident, suspected in the publication of xenophobic materials on a social network. In February 2017, a criminal case was initiated in Ryazan under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred).

Residents of Vyazniki opposed the construction of an Old Believer church on a wasteland in the Tekmash microdistrict. On January 27, 2017, in Vyazniki, Vladimirovskaya Oblast, there were public hearings were held on the construction of the Old Believer churches in a wasteland in the Tekmash microdistrict (Metallistov street). Most of the locals attending the event opposed the construction (out of 42 people, 17 voted "against" construction, 11 - "for").

Andrey Eliseev was sentenced to a fine on charges of possessing banned religious pamphlets for the purpose of their mass distribution. On February 9, 2017, the prosecutor's office of the Murmansk region reported that that the Polyarny District Court fined the chairman of the Committee of the local religious organization Jehovah's Witnesses "Snezhnogorsk" Andrey Eliseev under Art. 20.29 Administrative Code (storage of extremist materials for the purpose of their mass distribution).

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the sentence handed down to Marcel Gabbasov by the Volga District Military Court in October 2016. 9 February 2017, it became known that the collegium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation for servicemen refused to satisfy the complaint against the sentence of Marcel Gabbasov, handed down by Privolzhsky district military court 31 October 2016. Sentence thus entered into force.

The appeal of the Jehovah's Witnesses against the decision of the Court of the Jewish Autonomous Region was dismissed. On February 9, 2017, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation considered an appeal against the liquidation of a local religious organization of Jehovah's Witnesses in Birobidzhan for extremism and dismissed it, upholding the decision of the Court of the Jewish Autonomous Region dated October 3, 2016.

Another arrest was made in Bashkortostan on charges of continuing the activities of a terrorist organization. February 9, 2017 in Ufa, as part of an investigation under Art. 205.5 of the Criminal Code (organization of the activities of a terrorist organization or participation in it) seven Muslims were arrested: Ruslan Zainullin, Artem Naumov, Batyr Mukhametov, Ural Abdrakhimov, Ural Galiev, Artur Zaripov and Yaroslav Timofeev.

In February 2017, in the village of Oparino, Kirov Region, initiated a criminal case under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code against a 17-year-old local resident, suspected of publishing xenophobic materials on a social network. In February 2017, in the village of Oparino, Kirov Region, initiated a criminal case under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred).

We are publishing a commentary by historian and museum worker Stanislav Ruzaev, author of a guide to Sevastopol, dedicated to the transfer to the Church of the objects of the Chersonese museum-reserve. These objects refer to the residential and utility premises of the Chersonesos Monastery, which were transferred to the museum in the 1920s. Currently, they house exhibition halls, a storage facility, a scientific archive, and employee offices.

In January 2017, a Ryazan court fined a 25-year-old local resident who was found guilty of posting a banned neo-Nazi song on a social network. In January 2017, an administrative case was initiated in Ryazan under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (dissemination of extremist materials). The case was initiated against a 25-year-old local resident who, according to law enforcement agencies, published a prohibited audio recording on his page on the VKontakte social network.