On March 14, 2018, the Pyatigorsk City Court sentenced Aleksey Muravlev to two years probation for inciting hatred on a social network. On May 10 of the same year, the Stavropol Regional Court confirmed Muravlev's guilt, but changed the verdict. On March 14, 2018, the Pyatigorsk City Court of the Stavropol Territory found 49-year-old local resident Alexei Muravlev guilty under Part 1 of Art.

In Tatarstan, a resident of Chistopol was fined for a photo with a swastika on a social network. In March 2018, the court sentenced a resident of Chistopol to a fine under part 1 of article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (intentional public demonstration of Nazi paraphernalia or symbols). According to the case file, a resident of Chistopol posted a photo of his acquaintance in the public domain.

Yegorov is accused of calling for the assassination of the president and his inner circle. March 28, 2018 it became known about the end of the investigation in a case initiated in Toropets, Tver Region, against activist Vladimir Yegorov, who is accused of public calls for extremist activity on the Internet (part 2 of article 280 of the Criminal Code). criminal case against Egorov, then chairman of the local branch of the Yabloko party, was initiated in October 2016.

In Moscow, a verdict was passed in the criminal case of Roman (Zukhel) Zheleznov for participating in the Ukrainian Azov battalion as a mercenary. The verdict was appealed, but the Moscow City Court left the complaint unsatisfied, and the verdict remained unchanged. In March 2018, Roman Zheleznov was sentenced in absentia in Moscow under Part 3 of Art. 359 of the Criminal Code (participation of a mercenary in an armed conflict).

On March 30, 2018, the SOVA Information and Analytical Center presented its annual report “Problems in the implementation of freedom of conscience in 2017.” The author of the report, SOVA Center expert Olga Sibireva, spoke about the main trends in the field of freedom of conscience in 2017. Pressure on Protestant organizations and new religious movements increased. The central event was the ban on centralized and local organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses.

In Yekaterinburg, a court fined a prisoner in one of the colonies for a tattoo with a swastika. In March 2018, the Verkh-Isetsky Court found the prisoner of IK-2 guilty under Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (intentional public demonstration of Nazi paraphernalia or symbols) and fined the violator 1,000 rubles. According to the case file, the prisoner got himself a tattoo in the form of a swastika.

Yevgeny Bersenev was sentenced to a fine for publishing two pictures on a social network - with the NBP flag and with the slogan “Orthodoxy or death.” None of these posts, in our opinion, deserved prosecution. On March 28, 2018, the Leninsky District Court of Barnaul fined the head of the city branch of The Other Russia, Evgeny Bersenev, under Art. 20.3 (propaganda or display of symbols of organizations recognized as extremist) and Art.