In Vladivostok, the case of Dmitry Barmakin, accused under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code. Earlier, a similar decision was made in the case of his wife Elena. On December 18, 2020, the Pervorechensky District Court of Vladivostok returned to the prosecutor the case of Jehovah's Witness Dmitry Barmakin, accused of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1, Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

A bill was adopted in the second reading, which introduces large fines for site owners and hosters for avoiding blocking illegal content. On December 22, 2020, the State Duma adopted in the second reading a bill that introduces into the Code of Administrative Offenses (CAO) rules on liability for failure by site owners and hosting providers to remove or block illegal content.

The Supreme Court of Mordovia agreed with the district court, which fined Zyaki Aizatullin under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses for the sale of the banned book "Selected Hadiths". On December 21, 2020, the Supreme Court of Mordovia approved the decision to bring to administrative responsibility under Art. 20.29 Administrative Code (mass distribution of extremist materials) Zyaki Aizatullin, former Mufti of the Regional Spiritual Administration of Muslims (RDUM RM).

The State Duma adopted in the second reading a bill on combating illegal content in social networks. It will be distributed only on social networks with a half-million audience. They will have to independently and upon complaint block such content that is subject to existing out-of-court blocking legislation. At the same time, the amendments provide a mechanism for challenging the decisions of the administration of the social network.

The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill extending criminal liability to all new types of "foreign agents", including individuals. On December 22, 2020, the State Duma adopted in the first reading a draft amendment to Art. 330.1 of the Criminal Code (malicious evasion of the performance of duties determined by the legislation of the Russian Federation on non-profit organizations performing the functions of a foreign agent). It was submitted to the Duma on 11 December.

Semyon Baibak from Rostov-on-Don was sentenced to three and a half years of probation under Art. 282.2 and 282.3 of the Criminal Code. On December 21, 2020, the Leninsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don sentenced Jehovah's Witness Semyon Baibak to three and a half years of suspended imprisonment, finding him guilty of participating in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code) and financing extremism (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

Moscow Old Believers began raising funds to buy out the building of the St. Nicholas Old Believer Church put up for auction on Malaya Andronievskaya Street. On December 22, 2020, it became known that the Moscow Old Believers began raising funds to buy out the building of the Nikolskaya Old Believer Church on Malaya Andronievskaya Street put up for auction. The church was built in 1910-1912 and belonged to the Rogozhskaya Old Believer community before the revolution.

In Moscow, the building of the Annunciation Church in Fedosino was transferred to the ownership of the Russian Orthodox Church. On December 18, 2020, the building of the Annunciation Church in Fedosin (Lukinskaya street, house 11, building 1) was transferred to the ownership of the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow. The church was built in 1854 and is considered an object of cultural heritage of federal significance. From 1941 until the mid-1990s it was closed.

In Moscow, a criminal case was initiated under Part 1 of Art. 214 of the Criminal Code (vandalism) against a drunken man who damaged the gates of a church building. On December 20, 2020, a criminal case was initiated in Moscow under Part 1 of Art. 214 of the Criminal Code (vandalism) in relation to a drunken man who left the church and then drove his car into the gates of the church building. The injured party estimated the damage caused by him at 172 thousand rubles.

A bill was adopted in the second reading that allows restricting access to sites such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter for censoring Russian media. On December 22, 2020, the State Duma adopted in the second reading a bill introduced by a group of six deputies led by Alexander Khinshtein and Senator Alexei Pushkov. It allows you to block Internet resources, from the point of view of the authorities, unreasonably restricting the dissemination of Russian media materials.

The deputies propose to establish criminal liability for hooliganism committed by an unorganized group of persons without prior agreement or with the use of violence. On December 22, 2020, the State Duma adopted in the first reading the bill "On Amendments to Article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation", introduced on December 16 by Deputy Dmitry Vyatkin ("United Russia"). If the proposed amendments are accepted, paragraph “a” of Part 1 of Art.

On December 16, 2020, the federal list of extremist materials was updated. The list was supplemented by a book about the relationship between the Circassians and Karachays, anti-Semitic and anti-church videos, and another book by Nikolai Korolev. Update of the Federal List of Extremist Materials dated December 16, 2020. 5131 Information material - a brochure of a printed publication entitled “Step to the Truth” “Elbrus between the Circassians and the Karachais” by the author M.O.

December 18, 2020 in the Federal List of Extremist organizations published on the official website of the Ministry of Justice was added one organization .

The bill toughening the legislation on "foreign agents" was adopted in the second reading. On December 22, 2020, the State Duma adopted in the second 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 tightens the legislation on "foreign agents". The bill was submitted to the State Duma on November 18 and passed the first reading on December 8.

Anastasia Sycheva from Obluchye, Jewish Autonomous Region, is accused of participating in the activities of a banned organization of Jehovah's Witnesses in Birobidzhan (Part 2, Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).