During November 2017 law enforcement officers bodies in different regions detained Jehovah's Witnesses, demanded to disclose their religion, were often taken to the department, confiscated personal belongings, forcibly photographed and fingerprinted, as well as invaded the homes of believers. Such incidents were noted, in particular, in Dmitrov Moscow region, the village of Severnaya Ferma of the Vologda region, Diveevo of the Nizhny Novgorod region, Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.

On December 8, 2017, the Federal List was updated again extremist materials. Items were added to it. 4300 - 4309. List replenished far-right materials on the Internet, Islamist videos, video and article "Putin and terrorist attacks". Update of the Federal List of Extremist Materials dated December 8, 2017 4300.

In December 2017 in Mineralnye Vody of the Stavropol Territory a criminal case was initiated under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code against an 18-year-old local a resident suspected of posting certain xenophobic photographs on the social network. In December 2017 in Mineralnye Vody of the Stavropol Territory a criminal case was initiated under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting a national hate).

A resident of St. Petersburg, trying to defeat the "hotbed of evil", broke a window and tried to open the door of St. Isaac's Cathedral. On the evening of December 11, 2017, a 31-year-old man climbed over fence near St. Isaac's Cathedral, broke a stained-glass window and tried to open the door cathedral. He also broke two windows of the nearby Four Seasons Hotel. The vandal was detained by employees cathedral security.

In December 2017, in the Krasnoarmeysky district of the Chuvash Republic, a court sentenced a 42-year-old local resident to 350 hours of compulsory labor after he was found guilty of publishing xenophobic materials on a social network. In December 2017, in the Krasnoarmeysky district of the Chuvash Republic, a verdict was passed in the case of inciting national hatred (Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code).

In Moscow, a man attacked a believer, a Jehovah's Witness. November 23, 2017 on Kuskovskaya street in Moscow, a tenant one of the houses pushed a 54-year-old preacher - Jehovah's Witness to the stairs flying so that she fell. The woman's tablet was broken. Sources Message from Jehovah's Witnesses. 2017. December 12.

The website of the Russian movement "Open Russia" was also blocked. On December 11, 2017, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, Roskomnadzor blocked the website of the Open Russia movement.

Sokolovsky's lawyer believes that there was no corpus delicti in his actions. December 12, 2017 year, the defense of Yekaterinburg video blogger Ruslan Sokolovsky filed a cassation appeal against his sentence to the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. Sokolovsky's lawyer Aleksey Bushmakov believes that there was no corpus delicti in the actions of his client, and dubious testimony was the basis of the verdict.

In December 2017, it became known that in Kostroma the court granted a lawsuit to declare three videos and one article as extremist. In December 2017, it became known that in Kostroma the court considered a lawsuit to recognize three videos and one article as extremist. Reportedly, the materials were posted online by local a resident who has already been sentenced to 2 years in prison under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (more about the case see here ).

OFAS in the Sverdlovsk region found a violation of the law on a billboard advertisement with a quotation from the Gospel that contradicts the Family Code. In December 2017, it became known that the Office The Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia for the Sverdlovsk Region considered illegal placement on the street. Shchors in Yekaterinburg billboards with a quote from Gospels.

The Strasbourg Court communicated the complaint of the Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia and its chairman. December 1, 2017 year, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) partially communicated the complaint of the Administrative center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia and its chairman Vasily Kalin, filed on 3 February 2017.

In December 2017 it became it is known that in Kaluga the court fined a local resident, finding him guilty of publications in the social network of prohibited audio recordings and videos. IN December 2017, it became known that an administrative case under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (distribution of prohibited materials).

December 10, 2017 in Moscow in cinema "October" at the festival "Artdocfest" the screening of the film "Flight bullets” dedicated to the war in the Ukrainian Donbass. December 10, 2017 in Moscow in cinema "October" at the festival "Artdocfest" the screening of the film "Flight bullets” dedicated to the war in the Ukrainian Donbass.