Senators approved a law specifying the conditions for prosecution for displaying prohibited symbols. On February 26, 2020, the Federation Council approved the law "On Amendments to Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation", changing the text of Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (propaganda or public demonstration of Nazi symbols or symbols of extremist organizations).

At the end of February 2020, the Forty Forties movement resented the interior of the GOD cafe, opened on Rubinstein Street in St. Petersburg. On your page "VKontakte" they offered to write a complaint to the governor and demanded that the cafe be closed for "inciting religious hatred towards Christians.

Jehovah's Witness Sergei Filatov is asked to be sentenced to imprisonment under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code. On February 25, 2020, the debate of the parties in the case of Jehovah's Witness Sergei Filatov, accused under Part 1 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (organization of the activities of an extremist organization). The public prosecutor asked the court to sentence him to seven years in prison to be served in a strict regime colony.

On February 6, 2020, a jury in Moscow found one AntonBerezhnoy guilty of beating a gay male but acquitted him of killing another.Anton Berezhnoy was sentenced to restriction of liberty for 1 year and 11months . On February 6,2020, a jury of the Basmanny District Court of Moscow issued a verdict againstAnton Berezhnoy accused of assaulting a gay male couple that ended in the deathof one of the victims. The incidentoccurred on June 29, 2019, right at the entrance of the busy Kursky RailwayStation.