The court, at the request of the prosecutor's office, confiscated from Jehovah's Witnesses their largest complex in Russia in the village of Solnechnoye near St. Petersburg. On December 7, 2017, the Sestroretsk City Court of St. Petersburg considered the claim of the prosecutor's office of the Kurortny District of St. Petersburg and the territorial administration of the Federal Property Management Agency against the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania.

On December 4, 2017, VTsIOM published the results of a survey on the attitude of Russians to the strengthening of state measures to protect minors. IN it includes the question of the possibility of deprivation of parental rights for involving children into "sects" and illegal public organizations. “Rather positively” reacted to this opportunity 79% of respondents, "rather negatively" - 16%, 5% found it difficult to answer.

On November 30, 2017, in Skopin, Ryazan Region, a court fined a prisoner in one of the colonies for 1,000 rubles for demonstrating a tattoo with a swastika. On November 30, 2017, the Skopinsky District Court of the Ryazan Region opened an administrative case under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (propaganda and public display of Nazi symbols).

The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation refused to consider the complaint of the “Army Salvation” in Vladivostok to points of laws restricting the distribution religious literature in the framework of missionary activity.

In Orel, a criminal case has been initiated against a 20-year-old local resident for xenophobic videos on the VKontakte social network. In December 2017, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Oryol Region initiated a criminal case against a 20-year-old resident of the Oryol District, suspected under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred or enmity).

The coordinator of the initiative group “Dzerzhinsk against rising travel prices” was arrested for publications with Nazi symbols. On December 7, 2017, the Dzerzhinsky City Court of the Nizhny Novgorod Region found the coordinator of the movement against increasing public transport fares, Mikhail Penkin, guilty of publicly displaying Nazi symbols (Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code) and sentenced him to four days of administrative arrest.

In the Kursk region, 23-year-old Mikhail Kamynin, who is serving a sentence in a correctional colony, was sentenced for xenophobic video files on the VKontakte social network. On December 7, 2017, the Kurchatov MSO of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Kursk Region reported that the court had sentenced Mikhail Kamynin, a 23-year-old resident of the Soviet District. He was found guilty under Part 1 of Art.

Citizens of Russia, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan are accused of organizing the activities of an extremist organization and participating in its work. On December 4, 2017, the Babushkinsky District Court of Moscow received a criminal case against eight alleged members of the banned religious association Tablighi Jamaat.

In Tomsk, a 27-year-old native of Tuva received a two-year suspended sentence for a xenophobic text on the Internet. In December 2017, the Kirovsky District Court of Tomsk found a 27-year-old native of Tyva guilty under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting ethnic hatred).