December 6, 2018 Spiritual Council of the Russian United Union of Evangelical Christians (Pentecostals) issued a statement in connection with the ban on entry into Russia to the pastor of the Christian Center "Restoration" Evgeny Peresvetov. The statement confirms that Peresvetov was ordained "in in accordance with the canonical rules "of ROSHVE, lives in Russia on legal grounds, and his wife and children are citizens of Russia.

The proposals of the Human Rights Council are similar to the amendments sent to the Duma by Tatyana Moskalkova. On December 5, 2018, the Russian Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights (HRC) published an expert opinion on the presidential bill on the introduction of an administrative prejudice to Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred or enmity). The HRC put forward three proposals. Firstly, experts believe that from the composition of Art.

Three Russians and one citizen of Azerbaijan were sentenced to more than two years in prison under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code. On December 7, 2018, the Orekhovo-Zuevsky City Court of the Moscow Region delivered a verdict in the case of four supporters of the banned Islamic movement Tablighi Jamaat.

Three members of the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir party received sentences of up to six and a half years in prison in November 2018, and the organizer of the cell received 16 years. As we learned in December, on November 13, 2018, the Volga District Military Court passed a sentence on four residents of the Chelyabinsk region.

The investigation refused to open a case against the leader of the movement "Shahar" Alexander Kargin, due to suspicion of extremist activities who was searched in the Moscow Choral Synagogue in the summer. On December 7, 2018, it became known that law enforcement the authorities did not find grounds for initiating a criminal case against head of the Shahar movement and a representative of the Israeli Likud party Alexander Kargin.

In St. Petersburg, a 17-year-old nationalist is suspected of intentionally causing bodily harm. On December 7, 2018, it became known that a criminal case was initiated in St. Petersburg under Part 1 of Art. 112 of the Criminal Code (intentional infliction of harm to health of moderate severity). The suspect was a 17-year-old student of the 11th grade of school No. 519. According to investigators, at the end of September 2018, not far from the house 61 on the street.

Barnaul Planetarium, whose building was built in 2014 was handed over to the Russian Orthodox Church, no new premises have yet been found. The inhabitants of the city started collection of signatures against the transfer of the building to the diocese.

The authorities will have to pay 15 thousand rubles for the illegal persecution of a Saratov resident who published ditties criticizing judges. On December 6, 2018, it became known that the Zavodskoy District Court of Saratov partially satisfied the claim of Natalya Kovaleva for damages for illegal criminal prosecution. She was awarded compensation in the amount of 15 thousand rubles. The decision has not yet entered into force. Kovaleva herself demanded a million.