On October 26, 2020, it became known that two criminal cases had been initiated in the Sverdlovsk region - under Art. 148 (violation of the right to freedom of conscience and religion) and Art. 330 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (arbitrariness). The cases were initiated due to the fact that in September members of the diocesan commission were not allowed into the Sredneuralsky monastery to conduct an inventory.

Mikhail Sharygin in October 2020 was sentenced to a large fine for a comment in which he proposed blowing up the fence of a construction site that interfered with residents. On October 7, 2020, the 2nd Western District Military Court, at an offsite hearing in Nizhny Novgorod, sentenced local resident Mikhail Sharygin.

On October 26, 2020, the Krasnoyarsk Regional Court proceeded to the consideration of the claim of the prosecutor's office for the liquidation of the Church of the last testament. The defense asked more than 20 questions to the plaintiff. To the prosecutor's office could prepare answers, it was decided to postpone the consideration of the claim on December 14th.

They refuse to let Christensen out due to the fact that he refuses to work in prison production for health reasons. October 26, 2020 Lgovsky the district court of the Kursk region refused to grant the petition of Jehovah's Witness Dennis Christensen to replace the unserved part of his term of imprisonment with a fine.

The St. Petersburg diocese once again turned to the authorities with a request to transfer to it six buildings of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, which are under the jurisdiction of the Museum of Urban Sculpture. On October 23, 2020, it became known that Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and Ladoga Barsanuphius (Sudakov) turned to Governor Alexander Beglov with a request to transfer six buildings to the church on the territory of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.

Zyaki Aizatullin and the Uskudar mosque were fined under art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. October 23, 2020 Proletarsky District Court Saransk fined the former mufti of the Regional Spiritual Administration of Muslims (RDUM RM) Zyaki Aizatullin for two thousand rubles, and the Uskudar mosque, of which he was the mufti until mid-August 2020, as a legal entity - on one hundred thousand rubles under Art.