On December 21, 2020, it became known that the Lazarevsky District Court of Sochi fined a foreign citizen 50 thousand rubles, having found him guilty of "illegal" missionary activity. According to the FSB, the district prosecutor's office and the court, he, without permits documents for conducting missionary activities, preached among builders building a residential complex in the village of Lazarevskoye, and created a prayer room there. The court found him guilty under Part 5 of Art.

A resident of Vladivostok is accused of inciting ethnic hatred. On December 20, 2020, the SO for the Pervorechensky district of Vladivostok was informed that a criminal case had been opened under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred or enmity).

On December 21, 2020, it became known about a draft decree of the government of St. Petersburg, according to which seven apartments on the territory of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra should be transferred to the ownership of the Russian Orthodox Church. Five of the mentioned apartments are home to 18 people; they are planned to be resettled by June 1, 2022. Within a month after the eviction of all tenants, the apartments must be transferred to the diocese. No one lives in two more apartments.

Jehovah's Witness Sergey Kazakov was placed in the isolation ward. On December 21, 2020, at least four searches were carried out in the apartments of Jehovah's Witnesses in the Khabarovsk Territory. At the same time, Sergei Kazakov, a 46-year-old resident of Bikin, Khabarovsk Territory, who had come to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to care for his sick mother, was detained, Jehovah's Witnesses reported. Probably, we are talking about a new criminal case initiated under Art.

Jehovah's Witnesses from Sochi are sentenced to real terms, but are released at the expense of time spent in a pre-trial detention center. On December 18, 2020, the Khostinsky District Court of Sochi sentenced Jehovah's Witnesses Nikolai Kuzichkin and Vyacheslav Popov u. They were found guilty of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (part 1 of article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). Kuzichkin was sentenced to one year and one month in prison, and Popov to a year and 10 months.

The new version of the bill on combating illegal content in social networks applies only to services with half a million audience. Social networks will have to independently and on the basis of complaints block content that is covered by existing legislation on out-of-court blocking. At the same time, the amendments provide a mechanism for challenging the decisions of the administration of the social network.

Leader of the Baptist Church in Maykop fined for non-compliance with anti-terrorist security requirements objects of mass stay. December 18, 2020 it became known that the Maykop City Court fined the head of the Church of Evangelical Christian Baptists Dmitry Kadatsky for 30 thousand rubles. The court recognized him guilty of violating the requirements for anti-terrorist protection of facilities mass stay of citizens. The breach was discovered during checks.

December 16, 2020 Judicial Collegium for Administrative Cases of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation canceled the rulings courts of three previous instances on the recognition of the refusal of the Federal Service as lawful execution of sentences from the conclusion of an agreement on cooperation with the Russian United Union of Christians of the Evangelical Faith (Pentecostals) (ROSHVE).