In Chelyabinsk, an investigation into the case of a 34-year-old local resident, who is accused under Art. 280 and 282 of the Criminal Code. On December 17, 2018, it became known that in Chelyabinsk the case of a 34-year-old local resident was brought to court. He is accused under Part 1 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremism) and part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred).

In Kopeysk, the Magistrate's Court of Judicial District No. 3 fined the pastor of the religious organization "House of Prayer of the International Union of Churches of Evangelical Christians (Baptists)" for illegal missionary work. On December 13, 2018, it became known that in Kopeysk of the Chelyabinsk Region, the World Court of Judicial District No.

In Volgograd, the Cossacks tore up posters of Alina Smolyakova and Vlad Pogorelov standing in a single picket. On January 17, 2018, LGBT activists Alina Smolyakova and Vlad Pogorelov tried to hold a one-man picket in Volgograd. It was timed to coincide with the date of signing the resolution of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR criminalizing "sodomy" - December 17, 1933. The activists also touched upon the topic of homophobia in modern Russia.

In October 2018, a criminal case was opened in Moscow against a participant in an opposition rally on Lubyanka Square who threw a burning firecracker at the FSB building. In October - December 2018, several series of arrests and searches took place in the case. On October 14, 2018, Alexey Klimishin, a participant in the “Unlimited Protest” and close to the nationalist organization “Right Bloc”, was detained in Moscow.

Residents of Yekaterinburg oppose the construction of a church in the park near the Drama Theatre. On December 14, 2018 in Yekaterinburg, a group of activists - opponents of the construction of the Church of St. Catherine in the park near the Drama Theater handed over to the presidential representative in the Urals Federal District (URFO) a list signatures. The document contains more than 1,000 signatures of city residents who spoke against the construction of a temple in the square.

According to the Indefinite Protest activist, Okopny, an employee of the Moscow CPE, who did not like being photographed, hit a young man in a paddy wagon in the face with a phone.

The FSB motivated the need to arrest believers by the fact that they did not renounce their religious views. December 7, 2018 at Neftekumsk, Stavropol Territory, a criminal case was initiated under Part 1 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (organization of the activities of an extremist organization). December 9 as part of investigation in the city, at least eight searches were carried out at Witnesses' Jehovah.

Sergei and Anastasia Polyakov spent five months in solitary confinement. December 4, 2018 in Omsk Sergey and Anastasia The Polyakovs, accused under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (participation in activities extremist organization), were transferred from the pre-trial detention center to house arrest. They spent five months in solitary cells. According to investigators, the Polyakovs, residents of St.

At a meeting of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights, human rights activists drew the president's attention to the fact that more than 400 organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses are included in the list of terrorist and extremist organizations, although they do not practice violence.