In August 2018, in the city of Taganrog, Rostov Region, there were initiated a criminal case under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code against an 18-year-old local resident, suspected of posting xenophobic images on a social network, videos, audio recordings and other materials. In August 2018 in the city of Taganrog, Rostov region, a criminal case was initiated under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting a national hate).

The regional court upheld the appeal filed by the prosecutor's office after the appeal of the HRC. On August 14, 2018, the Novosibirsk Regional Court sent for a new trial a case concerning the ban on the painting by Vasya Lozhkin (Aleksey Kudelin), known as "Great Beautiful Russia". The previous decision of the Oktyabrsky District Court of Novosibirsk was canceled. This was announced by the Chairman of the Human Rights Council under the President of Russia (HRC) Mikhail Fedotov.

In Togliatti, a new - and an old - criminal case was opened against the activist of the “Community of the Indigenous Russian People” Lyubov Kuzaeva. In total, she is accused under five articles of the Criminal Code. In August 2018, in the city of Togliatti, Samara Region, pensioner Lyubov Kuzaeva was detained, who, according to law enforcement agencies, until 2015 led the Community of Indigenous Russian People (OCRN) movement.

August 10 on the portal TJournal published an article "The Most Extremist Regions of Russia", which is interesting for the visual presentation of data on the website of the General prosecutor's office crimestat.ru . The authors, relying on these data noted an abnormal increase in the number of criminal cases against anti-extremist orientation in certain regions.