The criminal case against the former plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Sakhalin region Vitaly Guliy, the author of the book "The Foot of the Russian Olympus", accused of inciting national hatred, has been dropped.

Eight people will serve terms from 5 to 10.5 years in a strict regime colony under Part 2 of Art. 205.5 of the Criminal Code. December 27, 2018 The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the verdict of the Moscow District Military Court in July in St. Petersburg in the case of eight Muslims accused of membership in the radical Islamic party Hizb ut-Tahrir (Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code), recognized as a terrorist organization in Russia.

In Irkutsk, a case was opened against a 21-year-old student of the Russian Law Academy for a video posted on a social network. In December 2018, the third department for the investigation of particularly important cases of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for the Irkutsk Region opened a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred or enmity). According to investigators, from 2016 to 2018.

Arkady Hakobyan was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code. December 27, 2018 Prokhladnensky District Court of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic found a seventy-year-old pensioner from the city of Prokhladny, a former tailor Arkadya Hakobyan, guilty of inciting religious hatred under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code and sentenced him to 120 hours of compulsory work. Previously The prosecutor requested that he be sentenced to three years in prison conditionally.

The Pushkinsky District Court of St. Petersburg dismissed a lawsuit to recognize the book and pamphlets of an American preacher as extremist. 27th of December 2018 Pushkinsky District Court of St. Petersburg considered the claim of the city prosecutor's office for recognition as extremist materials of books and brochures of the American preacher William Branham (Branham) (1909 - 1965).

A resident of Yuzhnouralsk was fined five thousand rubles for creation of a Pentecostal religious group without notifying the authorities.