The Federation Council approved the presidential amendments. On December 21, 2018, the Federation Council approved two presidential bills on partial decriminalization of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (incitement to hatred) by introducing a mechanism of administrative prejudice. They were submitted to the State Duma in October, adopted in the first reading in November, in the second - with minor changes - on December 18, and in the third - on December 19.

The Federation Council supported the amendments allowing to send a part of convicts for crimes of a terrorist nature in prisons instead of colonies, and also arbitrarily transfer to other regions prisoners suspected of propaganda of terrorism among inmates.

The Supreme Court proposes to punish those who have committed a minor crime for the first time, not providing for imprisonment, without a criminal record. Government against. On December 19, 2018, Chairman of the Supreme Court of Russia Vyacheslav Lebedev submitted to the State Duma a bill that introduces the concept of "criminal misconduct" into the Criminal Code. The project was developed by the Sun a year earlier.

The Court of Appeal of the Arbitration Court seized the temple from the ROAC in Trubchevsk, which managed to defend in the first instance. It was the last historical temple of the ROAC in Russia. December 19, 2018 court at a meeting in Tula decided to withdraw from the community of the Russian Orthodox Church Autonomous Church (ROAC) of the Ilyinsky Church of the 19th century in Trubchevsk, Bryansk areas.

In December 2018, it became known that in the city of Arzamas, Nizhny Novgorod region, the case against a local resident K., accused of publications in the social network group “Russia for Russians” created by him of xenophobic materials. In December 2018, it became known that in the city of Arzamas, Nizhny Novgorod region, an investigation into the case of inciting ethnic hatred was completed (part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code). A local resident K.

On December 20, 2018, a 30-year-old local resident was caught red-handed in St. Petersburg, who was painting a swastika on an obelisk in memory of juvenile victims of concentration camps on Pobediteley Alley in the Geroev-Izhortsev square. It is reported that the swastika appeared on the monument for several weeks. On December 20, 2018, it became known that an act of neo-Nazi vandalism had been committed in St. Petersburg.

The investigator did not apply to extend the arrest of Amir Gilyazov. On December 21, 2018, Amir Gilyazov, accused under Part 2 of Art. 205.5 of the Criminal Code (participation in the activities of a terrorist organization) for involvement in the activities of the radical Islamic party Hizb ut-Tahrir, banned in Russia, was released on his own recognizance.

On December 20, 2018, the 9th, 10th and 11th defendants in the case of the neo-Nazi attack on the Sokol club were probably detained in St. Petersburg. On December 20 and 21, 2018, on the VKontakte page of the neo-Nazi Andrey Link, information appeared about the detention of three participants in the attack on the Sokol club. Recall that on September 2, 2018, in St.