The case of seven Jehovah's Witnesses from Kirov charged under Art. 282.2 and 282.3 of the Criminal Code. On March 18, 2020, the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Kirov Region announced the completion of the investigation into the case of seven Jehovah's Witnesses. With the approved indictment, it was sent to the court for consideration on the merits. We are talking about a case in which the defendants are Polish citizen Andrzej Onischuk (b.

The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill introducing a new article 243.4 into the Criminal Code, and has already thought about its further tightening. On March 18, 2020, the State Duma adopted in the first reading a presidential bill providing for amendments to the Criminal and Criminal Procedure Codes of the Russian Federation.

In March 2020, a court in the Tver region recognized two far-right songs by the group PS7.62 as extremist. On March 12, 2020, the Likhoslavl District Court of the Tver Region considered a lawsuit to recognize the songs “I Made My Choice” and “Af-Af” by the PS7.62 group as extremist. Video clips of these songs are also banned. The song "I Made My Choice" contains calls for racist violence, while the composition "Af-Af" calls for violence against anti-fascists and promotes far-right ideology.

The FSB found a video with Nazi symbols from two residents of the Sarmanovsky district on VKontakte. On March 18, 2020, the prosecutor’s office of the Sarmanovsky district of Tatarstan reported that on March 16, the Sarmanovsky district court fined two local residents 1,000 rubles each under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (public display of Nazi symbols).

to 4 years in prison In May 2020, in Orel, a court sentenced a previously convicted fan of neo-Nazi groups of the 2000s , who was found guilty of inciting terrorism and extremism. In May 2020, in Orel, a sentence was passed in a criminal case under Parts 1 and 2 of Art. 205.2 of the Criminal Code (public calls for terrorism) and Part 2 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremism).

On 12 March 2020 in Vienna, members of the OSCE Permanent Council discussed the problem of persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. “ After the liquidation of all local religious organizations Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia carried out 869 searches in their homes, 26 people are pre-trial detention, 23 under house arrest, 316 indicted and 29 have already been convicted ,” the statement said.