The police decided to check the Tulskaya Pravda newspaper for extremism. On May 8, 2019, in Tula, the police seized 7,000 copies of the Tulskaya Pravda newspaper to check for extremism. At the same time, five activists of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation were also detained, including secretary of the Tula regional party committee and editor-in-chief of the newspaper Mikhail Fedorov, district deputy Maxim Dronov and ex-deputy of the regional Duma Alexander Novikov.

Art. 282 of the Criminal Code, his conviction has been cancelled. On May 7, 2019, the Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg released Ruslan Sokolovsky from punishment under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity) in connection with the partial decriminalization of this norm.

In Nizhny Novgorod, a drunken man was detained, who, on the territory of the Pechersky Monastery, threatened the watchman with a pistol and shouted insults at the clergy. May 7, 2019 in Nizhny Novgorod, a drunken man armed with a pistol, on the territory of the Pechersky Monastery threatened the watchman and shouted insults to the clergy. The abbot of the monastery called the police. The man was detained.