Criminal cases have been initiated in Vladivostok and the Nadezhdinsky district of Primorsky Krai, one believer has been arrested. On August 1, 2018, it became known that two new criminal cases were opened in Vladivostok and in the Nadezhdinsky District of Primorsky Krai about the continuation of the activities of organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses.

The publication of a video with "Father Pavlo" worshiping money was recognized by the court as public desecration of objects of religious veneration. On July 13, 2018, the justice of the peace of the judicial district No. 2 of the Urai judicial district of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Ilyuz Khasanova, fined a local resident Dmitry Kolganov 30 thousand rubles under Part 2 of Art. 5.26 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (deliberate public desecration of objects of religious veneration).

On July 24, 2018, the Arbitration Court of the Bryansk Region refused Klintsovskaya diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, which demanded that the temple be withdrawn from the community of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (ROAC).

In a new case, two believers were detained, one of them was arrested. On July 30, 2018, in Vilyuchinsk, Kamchatka Territory, after searches in the homes and cars of local residents, spouses Mikhail and Elena Popov, followers of Jehovah's Witnesses, were detained. On August 1, 56-year-old Mikhail Popov was arrested by the city court until September 24, his wife's detention was extended for another 72 hours, then she was placed under house arrest.

August 1, 2018 in the Federal list of extremist organizations published on the official website of the Ministry of Justice was one organization was added: the Orthodox religious group “In honor of the icon of the Mother of God “Derzhavnaya”.

Border guards once again confiscated collections of prayers from citizens crossing the border. On August 2, 2018, the press center of the FSB border department in the Altai Territory reported that at the Mikhailovka, Kulunda and Veseloyarsk automobile checkpoints, more than 10 copies of the book of the banned book "Fortress of the Muslim" were confiscated from three residents of Kazakhstan and Russia.