Amnesty International noted in its annual report the persecution of religious minorities and the restriction missionary activity in Russia. On February 22, 2018, Amnesty International published its annual report on the human rights situation in the world. One of the sections is devoted to Russia, including the situation with freedom religion.

In Karachay-Cherkessia, a 17-year-old resident of Cherkessk was fined for wearing a swastika and an extremist video posted on a social network. On February 16, 2018, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the KChR discovered that a 17-year-old resident of Cherkessk posted and publicly demonstrates Nazi symbols banned on the territory of the Russian Federation.

On January 18, 2018, the Kovdorsky District Court of the Murmansk Region fined Aleksey Ermachkov for the videos “Romper Stomper – Skinhead!!!!”, “9/06/2012 Dmitry Borovikov”, "Russian Banner - Dmitry Borovikov", "Dima Borovikov (SOUR)". On January 18, 2018, the Kovdorsky District Court of the Murmansk Region issued a verdict in an administrative case under Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (propaganda and public demonstration of Nazi paraphernalia and symbols).

In Udmurtia, a prisoner in one of the colonies was fined 1,000 rubles. for displaying Nazi symbols. In February 2018, the Zavyalovsky District Court fined the convicted FKU IK-1 1,000 rubles. The audit showed that from July to December 2017, a convict serving a sentence in PKU IK-1 and living in the dormitory of detachment No. 10, where more than 100 convicts lived with him, showed tattoos on his left shoulder in the form of a lines and a cross with curved ends.

On February 21, 2018, passengers of the Moscow metro found train car of the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line pasted on the walls of anti-Semitic leaflets. The text was written by hand. Flyers with the following content: Power in Russia in 1917 it was not the Bolsheviks who took it (this is the name of the party), but the Jews (they were members of this party). Russia is long gone, there is Zhidovia. V. Putin is a puppet president, protege of the USA and Jews.

In September 2018, the Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg received the case of Alexander Zenin, who had been on the federal wanted list for 12 years on suspicion of the murder of Timur Kacharava. Art. 105 of the Criminal Code (murder). In December 2018, the court found the young man guilty and sentenced him to 1.5 years in prison. On September 10, 2018, it became known that the case of 33-year-old Alexander Zenin was received by the Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg.

In Krasnodar, a criminal case was initiated against a 66-year-old member of the Spiritual and Ancestral Power of Rus' association. In February 2018, the Investigative Committee for the Prikubansky district of Krasnodar of the ICR for the region initiated a criminal case against a 66-year-old local resident suspected under Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code (participation in an extremist organization).

According to the statement of the Ministry of Justice of the Amur Region, the court seized Jehovah's Witnesses own a building and a plot in Tynda. On February 21, 2018, the Arbitration Court of the Amur Region accepted decision to seize property from a local religious organization of the Witnesses Jehovah in Tynda. At the request of the regional Ministry of Justice, the court seized 431.4 square meters of Jehovah's Witnesses and building built on top of it.

The Ministry of Justice, referring to the practice of the ECHR, argues that the ban on the painting by Alexander Savko was legal and necessary. On February 14, 2018, the Russian Ministry of Justice compiled and sent to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) answers to questions asked by the court on the complaint of the artist Alexander Savko, whose painting "The Sermon on the Mount" was recognized as extremist.

On February 22, 2018, the Federal List was updated again extremist materials. Items were added to it. 4383 - 4388. List supplemented the ultra-right materials on the Internet. February 22, 2018 update of the Federal List of Extremist Materials 4383. Image with text: “Arm. Do you have HOS? And the chump has a knife!