In April 2017, the case was brought to court in Vladimir against a local resident born in 1987, accused of posting on a social network materials with calls for xenophobic violence. In April 2017, an investigation was completed in Vladimir cases under Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremism).

In April 2017, in Murmansk, the court fined 5,000 rubles of a local resident found guilty of publishing some photos on a social network with Nazi symbols and banned videos. In April 2017, Murmansk initiated administrative case under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (dissemination of extremist materials) and Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (public display of Nazi symbols).

The Supreme Court refused to consider the counterclaim of the Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses and to involve representatives of local communities in the process. On April 5, 2017, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation proceeded to consider the claim of the Ministry of Justice on the liquidation of the Administrative Center Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia as an extremist organization.

In March 2017 in the Zvenigovsky district Republic of Mari El, a criminal case was initiated under Part 1 of Art. 282 CC against 66-year-old local resident suspected of posting xenophobic images on social media and texts. At the end of March 2017 in Zvenigovsky district of the Republic of Mari El, a criminal case was initiated under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred).

In April 2017, in Krasnodar, a court fined a local a resident found guilty of publishing certain prohibited materials on a social network. In April 2017, Krasnodar initiated administrative case under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (dissemination of extremist materials).

At the request of the leaders of four Orthodox foundations, a concert of medieval French music in the Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin has been cancelled. On April 3, 2017, the heads of four Orthodox foundations addressed to V. Putin and D. Medvedev with a request to cancel the concert scheduled for April 4 French medieval music in the Assumption Cathedral of the Kremlin. The concert was dedicated to the exhibition of Western European art of the XIII-XIV centuries.

On April 3, 2017 Regions.ru published a selection comments of religious figures on the expected ban on centralized organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. A number of Orthodox clergy confident in the expediency of the ban. Muslims approve of the ban. editor-in-chief of the Pravoslavnaya Moskva newspaper, Archpriest Mikhail Dudko, is sure that the state in general has no right to ban any religious organizations. Task states to protect citizens.

The local organization of Jehovah's Witnesses in Tula and its leader will be fined for possession of prohibited pamphlets. On April 4, 2017, the Tula Regional Court approved the decision of the Proletarsky District Court, which on February 6, 2017 fined under Art.

In April 2017 in Yaroslavl, the court fined 1,000 rubles two local residents, having found both guilty of publishing some banned songs. In April 2017, two administrative cases under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (dissemination of extremist materials).

A court in Tver banned two pictures with unflattering remarks about the president. March 30, 2017 from the next update of the Federal list of extremist materials, it became known that the list included items 4065-4074 containing materials posted on the user's page "VKontakte" by Alexander Tsvetkov and banned by the decision of the Central District Court of Tver dated May 11, 2016.

In March 2017, in the city of Sochi, Krasnodar Territory, the court fined a 30-year-old local resident found guilty of drew a swastika on the fence. In March 2017, in the city of Sochi, Krasnodar Territory, there were an administrative case was initiated under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (propaganda and public displaying Nazi symbols).

Four people were sentenced to long terms in Kazan charges of terrorism and collaboration with Hizb ut-Tahrir. April 5, 2017 Privolzhsky District Military Court (Samara) delivered a verdict at a visiting session in Kazan in the case of involvement in Hizb ut-Tahrir". Airat Shakirov, 25, 28-year-old Rainur Ibatullin and Nail Yunusov, 30-year-old Arslan Salimzyanov were found guilty under part 1 of Art.