On May 31, 2018, it became known about cases of police pressure on Jehovah’s Witnesses in different regions. On May 8, in Murom, Vladimir Region, a 32-year-old Jehovah's Witness was detained on the landing of his house. A search was carried out in his apartment, personal belongings and a telephone were confiscated. Employees of Center “E” interrogated the believer for several hours, threatened and blackmailed him about the well-being of his relatives.

May 31, 2018 at Petersburg, a verdict was passed in the case of a neo-Nazi group, members who was accused of murdering a native of Uzbekistan, six episodes of deliberate grievous bodily harm, three robberies, three robberies, arson of a temple and other crimes. On May 31, 2018, the St. Petersburg City Court delivered a sentence on a criminal case against a group of Nazi skinheads who were accused of committing a whole number of hate-motivated attacks.

In May 2018, a resident of the Balaklavsky district of Sevastopol received a suspended sentence for publishing a picture with an inscription directed against law enforcement officers. On May 23, 2018, the Balaklavsky District Court of Sevastopol sentenced local resident I. Stukalo (b. 1998) to two years’ imprisonment with an eight-month probationary period, finding him guilty of inciting hatred against a social group (Part 1, Article 282 of the Criminal Code) .

Inhabitant Rossoshansky district of the Voronezh region was sentenced to two years of suspended imprisonment for Islamist publications on VKontakte. 28 May 2018, the Rossoshansky District Court of the Voronezh Region issued an indictment sentence to a 21-year-old local resident, found guilty under Part 1 of Art.

In Shuya, Ivanovo Region, a new criminal case has been initiated against a follower of Jehovah's Witnesses. On May 31, 2018, the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Ivanovo Region announced the initiation of a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282.3 of the Criminal Code (financing of an extremist organization) in relation to a 40-year-old resident of Shuya.

In July 2018, a court in Kursk found a 19-year-old local resident guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code and sentenced him to a fine of 15 thousand rubles. On July 5, 2018, in the Kursk region, the Kursk district court found a local resident guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred).

In Izberbash, the organizer of a circle to study the heritage of an Islamic theologian received a real prison term. On May 31, 2018, the Izberbash City Court of the Republic of Dagestan sentenced Ilgar Aliyev (b. 1977) to eight years in prison in a general regime colony and two years of restriction of freedom, finding him guilty of organizing the activities of the extremist organization "Nurdzhular" (part 1 of Art.

in Altai the regional court considered a charity event to be "illegal" missionary work and fined a Pentecostal pastor who did not participate. 23 May 2018 Magistrate Court of Judicial District No. 1 of Slavgorod Altaisky edge fined the pastor of a religious group of Evangelical Christians (Pentecostals) "Cornerstone" by Denis Chuprov for 5 thousand rubles for Part 4 Art.

A court in Tolyatti punished a local resident for a link on a page on a social network. On May 22, 2018, the Komsomolsky District Court of Togliatti, Samara Region, fined 1,000 rubles under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (mass distribution of extremist materials) to local resident A. Semenova.