The Federation Council supported the law, according to which convicts, including those under certain anti-extremist articles of the Criminal Code, will be prohibited from running for legislative and local representative bodies for five years after the conviction is expunged or extinguished.

In 2020, 32.7 million rubles were allocated for the restoration of the Smolny Monastery in St. Petersburg. On May 20, 2020, it became known that for the restoration of the Smolny Monastery in Petersburg, 32.7 million rubles were allocated in 2020. Basically, we are talking about the restoration of the interiors of the Church of Zechariah and Elizabeth (1765). In addition, the authorities of St.

Since February, Jehovah's Witnesses accused under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code. As we learned in May, the Sverdlovsk District Court of Kostroma has been hearing since February 2020 in the case of Jehovah’s Witnesses Valeria and Sergei Raiman, accused of organizing the activities of an extremist organization and participating in it (parts 1, 2, art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code). The criminal case against the spouses was initiated in July 2018.

In mid-May 2020, residents of Yekaterinburg celebrated the anniversary of the protests against the construction of the Church of St. Catherine in the park near the Drama Theater. May 20, 2020 in the center of Yekaterinburg appeared on the metro ventilation duct the inscription "Our square", applied in black paint. The inscription was painted over middle of the same day. On May 13, members of the Parks and Squares community Yekaterinburg" launched a flash mob dedicated to the protests of 2019.

In May 2020, a criminal case was initiated in St. Petersburg under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code against a 31-year-old local resident suspected of publishing a xenophobic post on the VKontakte network. In May 2020, it became known that a criminal case was opened in St. Petersburg under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred).

Asgat Khafizov, convicted of organizing the activities of the Hizb ut-Tahrir party, which is recognized as a terrorist party in Russia, has become a defendant in a new case. In May 2020, it became known that a new criminal case was initiated in the Chelyabinsk region on participation in a terrorist organization (part 2 of article 205.5 of the Criminal Code) against Asgat Khafizov. On May 25, an anonymous source confirmed to OVD-Info that Khafizov was a suspect under this article.

A resident of Shuya, Ivanovo region, was fined 3,000 rubles under Art. 20.29 Administrative Code for posting a video for a satirical song on VKontakte. On May 20, 2020, the prosecutor's office of the Ivanovo region reported that the court had fined a resident of Shuya 3,000 rubles under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (mass distribution of extremist materials).

Vitaly Popov is charged under Art. 282.2 and 282.3 of the Criminal Code. On May 13, 2020, Vitaly Popov, a Jehovah's Witness from Novosibirsk, was charged with the final version and announced that the investigation of his criminal case had been completed. The investigator demanded that he familiarize himself with 21 volumes of the case in a week. The case was investigated under Part 2 of Art.

A student from Kemerovo was arrested, although he published photos from the 1945 Victory Parade and a video about the USSR's fight against Nazism. On May 15, 2020, the Kirovsky District Court of Kemerovo arrested for 10 days under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (public demonstration of Nazi symbols) of 18-year-old college student Vladislav Koretsky.