In January 2018, it became known that the parish of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Pskov region evicted pensioners from a rural house. We are talking about a house in the village of Zhabory, Porkhovsky district, in which several elderly women, parishioners of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, lived since 1998. The Russian Orthodox Church began to lay claim to this temple in 2010, seeking that the house be transferred to the ownership of the Intercession Church, located in the same village.

The accusation against the far-right activist has been reclassified from inciting hatred to insulting a representative of the authorities. The Investigative Committee has reclassified the criminal case of far-right activist Dina Garina from Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred or enmity) to article 319 of the Criminal Code (insulting a representative of authority). At the same time, the term for bringing to criminal liability under Art.

In the Altai Territory, the criminal case of a 24-year-old resident of Aleysk was sent to court for xenophobic publications on social networks. In January 2018, in the Altai Territory, the criminal case of a 24-year-old resident of Aleysk was sent to court under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred or enmity).

In Rostov-on-Don, a criminal case has been initiated against a 19-year-old resident of the Kuban for publications on the social network VKontakte. In January 2018, a criminal case was initiated in Rostov-on-Don under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred) against a resident of the Novopokrovsky district of Kuban. According to investigators, from 2012 to 2015.

The complaint of the publishing house "Kogita" was rejected. January 15, 2018 St. Petersburg the city court rejected the complaint of the Kogita publishing house against the decision of the Moscow District Court of St. Petersburg, which on August 23, 2017 recognized the information banned for distribution in Russia, a collection of the Polish publicist Jan Novak-Ezeransky "Oriental Reflections", its original layout and an electronic copy published on the Internet.

In the Kirov region, a convict from one of the colonies in the village of Rudnichny was fined for writing an extremist book on a social network. In January 2018, an administrative case was initiated under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (distribution of prohibited materials).

The Strasbourg court is interested in whether the right of an activist of the Tatar national movement to freedom of speech and personal integrity has been violated. On January 12, 2018, it became known that the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) communicated the complaint of the chairman of the Tatar Public Center, Rafis Kashapov, against his sentence regarding the application of Art.