The creator of the community "ANTI ENTEO | ANTI "GOD'S WILL" (18+)" was searched. In August 2017, it became known that a criminal case was being investigated in St. Petersburg under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (incitement of religious hatred) regarding the publication of anti-Christian materials on the social network VKontakte. The case was initiated on July 11, and on August 9, as part of it, a search was conducted at the residence of St. Petersburg resident Leonard Konwisher.

A protest action was held in Tyumen against the screening of Alexei Uchitel's film Matilda. August 17, 2017 in Tyumen took place protest action against the screening of the film by Alexei Uchitel "Matilda". It was attended about 50 Orthodox believers. Participants of the action held posters: “The film “Matilda” is vile slander”, “What is the people’s money spent on?”, “Do not touch the anointed mine (Ps 104-15)”, “Nicholas II - Russian Tsar! Holy king!”, “Hands off the holy family” and others.

The case was initiated under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code. On August 18, 2017, the Investigative Committee of the ICR for the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic announced the initiation of a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting religious hatred) against the chairman of the local religious organization of Jehovah's Witnesses in Maysky.

Residents of Makhachkala sent an application to the Leninsky Court with a request to cancel the construction of an Orthodox cathedral near Lake Ak-Gel. On August 16, 2017, it became known that residents of Makhachkala sent an application to the Leninsky court with a request to cancel the construction of an Orthodox cathedral in the city park, near Ak-Gel Lake.

We are publishing a commentary by Ksenia Sergazina, an expert at the SOVA Center and an associate professor at the Center for the Study of Religions at the Russian State University for the Humanities, dedicated to the recognition of the Bible in the translation of Jehovah's Witnesses as an extremist text.

On August 17, 2017, the Vyborg City Court declared the “Holy Scripture. New World Translation” (the Bible translated by Jehovah’s Witnesses) to be an extremist text. We are publishing a commentary by religious scholar Pyotr Chistyakov, associate professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities, dedicated to the scandalous decision of the Vyborg court. This is a completely unprecedented decision, contrary to the law , which guarantees the inviolability of sacred texts.

On August 16, 2017, the Federal List was updated again extremist materials. Items were added to it. 4197-4199. List replenished ultra-right materials. Update of the Federal List of Extremist Materials dated August 16, 2017 4197. Video clip (video material) with the title: “Moskals on Knives”, duration 39 sec. (volume 8.67 mb.) (decision of the Yuryansky District Court of the Kirov Region of 06/22/2017); 4198.

The Vyborg City Court banned the publications of "Holy Scripture. New World Translation", "The Bible and Its Main Theme", "Science instead of the Bible?" and "How to improve health. 5 simple rules." On August 17, 2017, the Vyborg City Court granted the claims of the Leningrad-Finland Transport Prosecutor to recognize as extremist the publications "The Holy Scripture.