Jehovah's Witnesses who came to court were handed summons for interrogation at the FSB. Earlier, such a case occurred in Dagestan. On March 18, 2020, at the Yoshkar-Ola City Court, before a hearing on the extension of house arrest, Jehovah's Witness Ekaterina Pegasheva was handed summons to six visitors for questioning by the deputy head of the investigation department of the Federal Security Service for the Republic of Mari El. At the same time, listeners were not allowed into the courtroom.

Zenit striker Artyom Dzyuba published a collage on his page on the social network Instagram, where he compared the players of the St. Petersburg club with monkeys from a Soviet cartoon. In early March 2020, Zenit striker Artyom Dzyuba published a collage on his page on the Instagram social network, in which he compared the players of his club with monkeys from a Soviet cartoon.

We are talking about the video "Let's Remind the Crooks and Thieves of their Manifesto-2002", which we consider to be illegally recognized as extremist. On March 24, 2020, the prosecutor's office of the Vladimir region reported that the court had fined a resident of Suzdal under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (mass distribution of extremist materials) for storing a video on a page on the VKontakte social network.

In Voronezh, a vandal depicted Nazi symbols on gravestones located next to the Orthodox church and tried to attack a random witness. March 23, 2020 in Voronezh, a vandal painted swastika on tombstones next to the temple of the prophet Samuel on Karl Marx Street. Noticing that a passer-by was photographing him, the attacker rushed at her. Woman was forced to take refuge in the temple. The parishioners managed to put the tombstones in order.

The following isour review of the primary and most representative events in misuse of Russia'santi-extremist legislation in February 2020. Prosecutions for Anti-Government Statements and Abuses WhenCountering Incitement to Hatred In February, aprosecutor's office in the Voronezh Region discontinued the administrative caseunder Article 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (incitement tohatred or enmity) against video blogger Pavel Sychev.