In June 2019, it became known that a criminal case was initiated in St. Petersburg under Art. 280 of the Criminal Code against the nationalist Vladimir Timoshenko. On June 25, 2019, it became known that a criminal case was initiated in St. Petersburg under Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremism). The case was initiated against the previously convicted nationalist Vladimir Tymoshenko in connection with his publication on the VKontakte network, made back in April 2014.

The State Duma adopted in the first reading one of two bills that would ease the ban on displaying symbols of banned organizations. On June 25, 2019, the State Duma of the Russian Federation approved in the first reading the bill "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts in Part of Improving the Legal Regulation of the Use of Nazi Symbols in Works of Science, Literature, and Art". It is included in the package of bills by Elena Yampolskaya ("United Russia"), along with a proposal to amend Art.