The President signed amendments on criminal liability for actions aimed at alienating the territory of the Russian Federation, and on administrative prejudice for calls for separatism. On December 8, 2020, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed laws amending the Code of Administrative Offenses (CAO) and the Criminal Code (CC) of the Russian Federation, which relate to responsibility for separatism and calls for it.

The Novokuznetsk association of Russian nationalists, headed by Alexander Bychev, is banned as extremist. On December 7, 2020, in the Kemerovo region, the Central District Court of Novokuznetsk recognized the local "Russian Patriotic Club" of Alexander Bychev as an extremist organization. an administrative claim with this requirement The prosecutor sent to the court in November 2020.

The State Duma adopted in the first reading the main bill from the package that tightens the legislation on "foreign agents". On December 8, 2020, the State Duma adopted in the first reading the bill "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation in Part of Establishing Additional Measures to Counter Threats to National Security", which concerns the tightening of legislation on "foreign agents". It was submitted to the Duma on 18 November.

In October 2020, Andriy Okhrimchuk became a suspect in a case initiated under Art. 282.2 and 282.3 of the Criminal Code. In December 2020, it became known that on October 29, an investigator for particularly important cases of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case against Jehovah's Witness Andrey Okhrimchuk under Part 2 of Art.

On December 8, 2020, a remote meeting of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church took place. The members of the Synod appointed a new bishop for Tatarstan, Metropolitan Kirill (Nakonechny), former Metropolitan of Yekaterinburg. Bishop Evgeniy (Kulberg) of Bronnitsky, chairman of the Synodal Department for Religious Education and Catechism, Vicar of the Patriarch, was appointed to Yekaterinburg.

A local resident is accused of public calls for extremism. On December 7, 2020, it became known that in Smolensk the Leninsky District Court will consider the case of a 4th year student of the Smolensk Pedagogical College, who is accused under Part 2 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremism on the Internet).