On December 2, 2019, Vladimir Putin approved a law specifying the procedure for using Nazi symbols and symbols of banned organizations. On December 2, 2019, President Vladimir Putin signed the law "On amendments to Article 6 of the Federal Law "On Perpetuating the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" and Article 1 of the Federal law "On Counteracting Extremist Activity", which changes rules regarding the use of prohibited symbols.

Increased fines for certain administrative offenses, introduced liability for violation of the requirements for the localization of databases of personal data. On December 2, 2019, President Vladimir Putin signed a law on the introduction of amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses (CAO), increasing fines for violations in the field of information legislation, as well as introducing new sanctions.

The case of residents of Yekaterinburg, accused under Art. 280 and 282.1 of the Criminal Code, referred to the court. On December 10, 2019, the Yekaterinburg Garrison Military Court will begin considering a criminal case on the activities of publics on the VKontakte social network and a criminal Instagram account. A married couple, Nikolai and Nina from Yekaterinburg, were charged under Part 2 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremism via the Internet) and ch.

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow arrested in absentia a rabbi accused of not returning to Russia a collection of Jewish books and manuscripts from the Schneerson Library. On November 29, 2019, the Tverskoy Court of Moscow ruled arrest in absentia for two months of Sholom DovBer Levin, an American rabbi accused of non-return to Russia of a collection of Jewish books and manuscripts from the library Schneerson, taken abroad in the 1930s.

The administration of Tver refused to allocate a site for the construction of an Orthodox church on Yuzhnaya Street to the city property management department. On November 25, 2019 it became known that the Administration of Tver refused to allow the City Department of Property Management to allocate a site for construction of an Orthodox church on Yuzhnaya Street (Microdistrict "Mamulino"). The reason for the refusal was the results of the public hearings held.

In Komi, "Frontier of the North" is excluded from the state register of legal entities. November 14, Syktyvkar City Court considered an administrative case on the claim of the regional Department of the Ministry of Justice to ANO "Rubezh Sever" on the liquidation and exclusion of information from the state register. The Department of the Ministry of Justice controls the activities of non-profit organizations.

The European Association of Jehovah's Witnesses counted the number of searches in the homes of Jehovah's Witnesses in November 2019. At the end of November 2019 European The association of Jehovah's Witnesses released its estimates of the number of searches in homes of Jehovah's Witnesses in November 2019. According to Jehovah's Witnesses, in November Russia had 28 searches. Total number of searches in the homes of Jehovah's Witnesses after the ban of the organization - 737.

Blame the Nazi uniform. On December 2, 2019, it became known that in Vladikavkaz fined under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (propaganda or demonstration of Nazi symbols) 27-year-old local resident. The reason was the repost of the video "17 moments of Klitschko", which was made by a young man on his page in the social network "VKontakte".

The President approved the law on individuals-foreign agents. On December 2, 2019, President Vladimir Putin signed the law "On amendments to the Law of the Russian Federation “On the Mass Media Information” and the Federal Law “On Information, Information Technologies and information protection.” It provides for the possibility of recognizing mass media as "foreign agents" of natural persons and establishes the procedure dissemination of information to the media - "foreign agents".

In November 2019, as a result of racist and neo-Nazi motivated attacks injured at least 3 people in St. Petersburg, Leningrad and Sverdlovsk regions. Total since the beginning of 2019 6 people died and 35 were injured from racist violence in 17 regions Russia. The SOVA Center is also aware of the arson in November Orthodox chapel in Zelenodolsk. In total, since the beginning of the year, we have recorded at least 19 acts of ideological motivated vandalism in 16 regions of the country.