For the second reading in the State Duma, a new draft law on media-"foreign agents" has been prepared in an amended form. On July 3, 2018, the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications considered amendments to the bill expanding the legislation in the field of relations with "foreign agents" and recommended it for adoption in the second reading.

Andrey Stupnikov, 44, was detained at the airport. The next day he was arrested. On July 3, 2018, at the Yemelyanovo airport, officers of the Federal Security Service of Russia for the Krasnoyarsk Territory detained 44-year-old Andrey Stupnikov, a follower of Jehovah's Witnesses. The next day, by decision of the Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Krasnoyarsk, Stupnikov was arrested for two months, until September 2.

In June 2018, FIFA fined 10,000 Swiss francs Russian Football Union because of the raised by the fans at the match Russian national team with Uruguay neo-Nazi banner with the number "88".

In July 2018, in the city of Chita, Trans-Baikal Territory, a court sentenced Yevgeny Krasnoyarov to life imprisonment, who was found guilty of committing a series of murders and attacks. The initial charges included a motive of national hatred, but whether it was taken into account in sentencing remains unclear.