More than a million Russians took part in the Epiphany events. On January 19, 2021, according to police, more than 1.2 million Russians took part in baptismal "religious events." Apparently, we are talking not only about attending a service, but also about swimming in an ice hole and visiting a church for the sake of holy water. The policemen of St. 49 thousand people), in Moscow - 3 thousand (in 2020 - 125 thousand).

The Kemerovo Regional Court rejected the appeal of Sergey Britvin and Vadim Levchuk. January 19, 2021 Kemerovo regional court upholds sentence for Jehovah's Witnesses Sergei Britvin and Vadim Levchuk, delivered on September 2, 2020 by the Berezovsky City Court. And on February 1, 2022, the Eighth Court of Cassation in Kemerovo rejected the complaint of Britvin and Levchuk against the decision of the regional court.

The reason was the fact that a bust of the scientist and leader of the Bashkir national movement Akhmet-Zaki Validi was installed on the territory of the university and his museum is located. January 18, 2021 St. Petersburg State the university received a response from the prosecutor's office of the Vasileostrovsky district of St.

There was a debate on the case of Galina Parkova. January 19, 2021 in Leninsky district court of Rostov-on-Don ended the debate in the case of a follower teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses Galina Parkova, accused under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 CC (participation in the activities of an extremist organization). The prosecutor asked to sentence Parkova to three years of suspended liberty with a year of restriction freedom and a four-year probationary period.

The prosecutor's office seeks to ban the book of the Bishop of the Orthodox Church of the Mother of God "Sovereign". On January 14, 2021, it became known that on December 30, 2020, the prosecutor’s office of the city of Moscow sent a lawsuit to the Tagansky District Court of Moscow to recognize as extremist material the book of the Bishop of the Orthodox Church of the Mother of God “Sovereign” John (in the world - Veniamin Yakovlevich Bereslavsky) “Rose of the Seraphim.

On January 20, 2021, the federal list of extremist materials. The list was supplemented by the song of the "gay skinheads" group, the book by the skinhead Blinov and an extremist video. Update of the Federal List of Extremist Materials dated January 20, 2021. 5149 Lyrics of the song of the performer "Evil Oh!" titled "Kill a woman" and an audio recording of her performance, 01 min long. 41 sec.

The Kamchatka Regional Court upheld the verdict against Sergei Ledenev. January 19, 2021 Kamchatsky the regional court upheld the verdict issued on November 24, 2020 by Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky city ​​court to a follower of the teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses, Sergei Ledenev. Ledenev was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (organization of the activities of an extremist organization) and sentenced to two years in prison on probation.