April 25, 2020 confessor of Sredneuralsky convent in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "The Conqueror of Bread" sheigumen Sergius (Romanov) delivered an anti-Semitic sermon in which he urged Orthodox do not obey orders to close churches for parishioners. "Our Orthodox faith withstood the yoke of well ... Freemasonry, under the diabolical satanic onslaught, survived in terrorist attacks, revolutions, wars, Gulags, torture, hunger, cold.

On April 27, 2020, the Yekaterinburg diocese announced on the deprivation of the confessor of the Sredneuralsky convent, shiigumen Sergius (Romanov) the right to preach publicly. “Due to inquiries regarding activities of a provincial cleric of the Yekaterinburg diocese, Sheikhumen Sergius (Romanov), the Yekaterinburg diocese reports that the content of the speeches of the specified cleric, clothed in the form of a sermon, do not express positions Yekaterinburg diocese.

On April 26, 2020 it became known that the head of the committee State Dumas on the development of civil society, issues of public and religious associations Sergei Gavrilov appealed to the Prosecutor General's Office with a request check the TV series Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes, released on the Russia 1 TV channel, for signs of insulting religious feelings.