The prosecutor's office considered that "esoteric methods" could contribute to the spread of extremist appeals. On July 25, 2017, it became known that the Prosecutor's Office of the Pravoberezhny District of Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region, issued a warning to a local resident, Sergei Litvinov, about the inadmissibility of violating anti-extremist legislation.

On July 19, 2017, a court in Orenburg fined a 21-year-old local resident for an audio recording from the federal list of extremist materials on the VKontakte social network. On July 19, the Dzerzhinsky District Court of Orenburg fined the offender for Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (dissemination of extremist materials).

A resident of Penza was fined 1,000 rubles. On July 25, 2017, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Penza announced that on June 22 it had fined I. Timerbulatov 1,000 rubles under Art. 16.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (non-compliance with prohibitions and restrictions on the import of goods into the customs territory of the Eurasian Economic Union or into the Russian Federation).

Owners of anonymizers and VPNs will be required to stop access to sites blocked in Russia. On July 25, 2017, the Federation Council approved a bill banning the use of anonymizers and VPN services to access sites blocked in Russia. The bill was approved by the State Duma in the first reading on June 23, adopted in the second reading on July 19 and in the third on July 21.

On July 25, 2017, the Federal List was updated again extremist materials. Items were added to it. 4178 - 4185. List replenished the materials of Nazi skinheads on the Internet, the book of A.S. Shmakov "International Secret Government" and pamphlet by Abdurrahman bin Abdulkarim Ash-Shikha "Muhammad is the Greatest of All. Muhammad is the messenger Allah." Update of the Federal List of Extremist Materials dated July 25, 2017 4178.

In Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, a 20-year-old native of the village of Listvennichnoye received a suspended sentence of one and a half years for xenophobic videos posted on a social network. In July 2017, the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk City Court delivered a verdict in the criminal case of a 20-year-old native of the village of Listvennichnoye. He was found guilty under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred or enmity).