On October 10, 2017, the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow authorized absentee arrest of blogger Vyacheslav Maltsev. On October 11, 2017, Maltsev's defense appealed this decision. On October 31, the Moscow City Court recognized as lawful the decision of the court that issued the arrest warrant in absentia. On October 10, 2017, the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow authorized arrest in absentia activist blogger and leader of the Artpodgotovka movement Vyacheslav Maltsev.

A convenient pretext is suspicion of extremism. On October 6-7, 2017, the police, under the pretext of checking "for extremism" confiscated campaign materials from activists of the "Open Russia". On October 6, a coordinator was detained in Tomsk on suspicion of possessing extremist literature. "Open Russia" Alexei Pryanishnikov, in whose car were movement propaganda posters. Pryanishnikov was taken to the police station and later released. The posters were seized for a linguistic examination.

The Orthodox held protests in several cities against the showing of Matilda. Some of them involved right-wing radicals. On October 7, 2017, Orthodox protests were held in several Russian regions against the screening of the film "Matilda". In Irkutsk, a rally against "Matilda", which was attended by about 50 people, was organized by local Cossacks.

A criminal case has been opened in Altai for an anti-Christian comment on the VKontakte social network. On September 24, 2017, a criminal case was initiated in Gorno-Altaisk under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting ethnic hatred) against a 20-year-old local resident. According to the case file, on April 2, 2017, a local resident wrote a comment on the VKontakte social network, "with signs of inciting interfaith hatred against Christians ." The suspect fully admitted his guilt.

The Kunashak District Court fined M. Farkhutdinov for keeping a brochure on the attitude towards women in Islam. On September 26, 2017, the Kunashaksky District Court of the Chelyabinsk Region found M. Farkhutdinov guilty under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (distribution extremist materials) and fined him two thousand rubles with the confiscation of the book.

Questions have been addressed to the Russian authorities about whether the ban on an article about the Chuvash language in the newspaper Vzyatka and the criminal prosecution for its publication was properly justified. 18 September 2017 European Court of Rights person communicated the complaints of the journalist Ilya (Ille) Ivanov and the chief editor of the newspaper "Bribe" Eduard Mochalov, bringing them together. Ivanov disputes sentence given to him.

In Kaluga, a 37-year-old local resident received 240 hours of compulsory labor for a xenophobic video file on a social network. In October 2017, the Kaluga District Court sentenced a 37-year-old wrestling coach from Kaluga. He was found guilty under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred and enmity). According to the case file, in December 2014, the man posted a xenophobic video file on his personal page on the social network.

In Rostov-on-Don, a criminal case was initiated on the initiation of hate. He is suspected of publicly lecturing containing xenophobic statements about Jews and representatives of three religions. On October 9, 2017, it became known about the initiation of a criminal case according to part 1 of Art.

Journalist Roman Yushkov was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting ethnic hatred) for an article on a social network called "Stop feeding strangers." The Supreme Court upheld this decision. On September 12, 2018, the Perm Regional Court found Roman Yushkov guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (incitement of ethnic hatred) and sentenced him to two years of probation. On November 29, 2018, the Supreme Court upheld this decision.