On August 19, 2020, Forum 18 published its own statistical data on prosecution of believers for "illegal" missionary work activity. According to these data, during 2019 and the first half 2020 to liability under Parts 4 and 5 of Art. 5.26 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (violation of the law on freedom of conscience, freedom of religion and religious associations) 17 religious organizations and 125 believers were involved (some in several episodes).

The Moscow Regional Court found that activist Kholkin was legally arrested for being tagged in a post critical of the authorities. On August 20, 2020, the Moscow Regional Court upheld the decision of the Voskresensky City Court, which on July 8 arrested activist Aleksey Kholkin for five days for inciting hatred against the civil servants social group (Article 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). Kholkin was arrested for posting the video "We all go out to protest.

In August 2020, in the city of Sortavala, Republic of Karelia, a court sentenced a 69-year-old local resident to 2 years in prison, who was found guilty of publishing texts calling for xenophobic violence on the Internet. On August 20, 2020, the Sortavalsky City Court of the Republic of Karelia issued a verdict in the case of public incitement to extremism (part 2 of article 280 of the Criminal Code).

A case was initiated against a resident of Primorye under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code. On August 18, 2020, an investigator from the Investigative Department for the city of Partizansk of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of the Primorsky Territory and officers from the FSB conducted a search at the home of Jehovah's Witness Leah Maltseva.

In the Kemerovo region, a case under Art. 148 of the Criminal Code. A resident of Kiselevsk is accused of insulting the religious feelings of Muslims. On August 17, 2020, it became known that the case of the 30-year-old a resident of Kiselevsk, Kemerovo region, who is accused under Part 1 of Art. 148 Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public actions expressing clear disrespect for society and committed in order to offend the religious feelings of believers).

A lengthy trial ended with the recognition of one volume of al-Saadi's tafsir and two volumes of Ibn Kathir's tafsir as extremist. On August 18, 2020, the Krasnoglinsky District Court of Samara satisfied the claim of the Prosecutor's Office of the Samara Region and partially recognized the Russian-language editions of two authoritative interpretations of the Koran (tafsir) as extremist.

Moscow Seminary of Evangelical Christian Baptists, whose educational license had previously been revoked, established an autonomous non-profit organization and received a new license. At the beginning of August 2020, it became known that back in May the Moscow Theological Seminary of Evangelical Christian Baptists received a new educational license. Recall that in February 2020, the court on the claim Rosobrnadzor canceled the license of the seminary.