In Balashov, Saratov Region, masked FSB officers searched a mosque near the Dmitrievsky market. A criminal case has been initiated. On August 25, 2017, in Balashov, Saratov Region, masked FSB officers carried out a search in the mosque near the Dmitrievsky market. Vzglyad-info informs about initiation of a criminal case, but no details. At the Spiritual Board of Muslims The Saratov region does not comment on the conduct of the special operation and does not confirm it.

In Mordovia, two young people (17 and 19 years old) were convicted for xenophobic materials on social networks. In August 2017, in the Republic of Mordovia, the Leninsky District Court of Saransk issued a sentence under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (incitement of ethnic hatred or enmity) to two 17 and 19 year old local residents.

The activist did not remove the publication from the social network, so he was fined a second time. On August 29, 2017, from a message from the prosecutor's office of the Oktyabrsky district of Barnaul, it became known that in June and July the local activist Vladislav Konopikhin was again fined by the court under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 (public display of Nazi symbols) and Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (mass distribution of extremist materials).

In the Krasnodar Territory, a 22-year-old resident of Tikhoretsk was fined for wearing a swastika, audio and video footage on a social network. In August 2017, in Tikhoretsk, a local resident was punished under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (distribution of extremist materials) and art. 20.3 (public display of Nazi paraphernalia). He was fined.

A 30-year-old local resident is on trial in Nizhny Novgorod on charges of xenophobic assault and other crimes. In August 2017, the media reported that in the Sovetsky district of Nizhny Novgorod, the court was considering a criminal case against a 30-year-old resident of Nizhny Novgorod, who is accused of beatings (Article 116 of the Criminal Code), intentional infliction of minor bodily harm (Article 115 of the Criminal Code) and sexual relations with a minor (Article 134 of the Criminal Code).

In Yekaterinburg, a huge inscription “No to the Temple!” on the waterfront, where the city administration plans to build a cathedral. August 29 2017, it became known that in Yekaterinburg on the embankment of the city pond there was a huge inscription "Temple - no!". Recall the townspeople have been opposing the construction of this temple for more than a year.

On August 25, 2017, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) adopted Recommendations on the RF report. According to the document, the Committee recommends that Russia finally adopt a comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation and cite current regulations that mention discrimination, incl. Art. 136 of the Criminal Code, in accordance with the Convention (clauses 9, 10).

In Neftekumsk, after a call from an anonymous source, police officers detained members of the Jehovah's Witnesses community who were vacationing with their children on the shore of a lake. They were interrogated at the police station for more than 3 hours.

In August 2017, the previously convicted ex-leader of the far-right nationalist group Pit Bull and several of his accomplices were detained in Krasnodar. Young people were accused of a number of crimes of a common criminal nature. In April 2018, the case against members of the group was brought to court. In February 2019, the case was sentenced. The verdict was appealed, but in January 2020 the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the verdict and it came into force.

A group of teenagers was discovered in St. Petersburg, robbing and beating migrants and attacking an anti-fascist. In August 2017, members of the national militia of the MOP "Patriot" reported that in St. Petersburg, the police, the prosecutor's office and the administration of the Kolpinsky district discovered a group of teenagers who committed several attacks. The size of the group, consisting of teenagers aged 14 to 24 years, was about 30 people.

On August 28, 2017, the Bryansk Regional Court passed a verdict in the case of the murder of the leader of the Bryansk rock band "Reply to Chamberlain" by Alexander Chizhikov. On August 28, 2017, the Bryansk Regional Court delivered a guilty verdict in the case of the murder of 46-year-old Alexander Chizhikov, vocalist of the Otvet Chamberlain rock band, based on the verdict of a jury . Alexander Chizhikov, leader of the Bryansk rock band Otvet Chamberlain, was killed on July 28, 2016.

A motion was filed to reconsider the case due to newly discovered circumstances. On August 21, 2017, the Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Adygea sent a petition to the Maykop City Court to review, due to newly discovered circumstances, the decision to recognize the article “Silence of the Lambs”, published by environmentalist Valery Brinikh on the website “For Krasnodar”, as extremist. The hearing of the case is scheduled for September 13, 2017.