In February 2018 in Moscow the city of Troitsk completed the investigation of a criminal case under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code and art. 280 of the Criminal Code against a 19-year-old student accused of posting on a social network xenophobic content. In February 2018 in Moscow the city of Troitsk completed the investigation of the criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 UK (incitement of national hatred) and Part 2 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremism).

In February 2018 in St. Petersburg the court sentenced local resident Ivan Torbin to 2 years of imprisonment on probation, found guilty of publishing a xenophobic image on the VKontakte social network. In February 2018 in St. Petersburg was sentenced in the case of incitement of national and religious hatred (part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code).

The fine for distribution of Markus Lehman's novel "Forcibly Baptized" recognized as extremist exceeded 100,000 rubles. On February 21, 2018, the Moscow city prosecutor's office reported that at the suit of the prosecutor's office of the North-Eastern Administrative District, was brought to trial liability under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (production and distribution extremist materials) bookstore through whose website the a book that has been declared extremist.

In Izhevsk, representatives of the Gradsovet public organization are protesting against the construction of an Orthodox church in Cosmonauts Park. February 14, 2018 at Izhevsk representatives of the public organizations "Gradsovet" made two appeals with a protest against the construction of an Orthodox temple in the park of Cosmonauts.

In Moscow, the Church of St. Philaret the Merciful at the Children's City Clinical Hospital. Speransky. On February 20, 2018, it became known that in In Moscow, for the free use of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Church of St. Philaret Merciful at the Children's City Clinical Hospital. Speransky. Services have been held in the church since 2006. The chief physician of the hospital is ready to continue to participate financially in building restoration. Sources Temple at the Moscow hospital.