The court in Tula fined a local resident ten thousand rubles for the publication of offensive images with Orthodox icons. January 29, 2021 it became known that the court fined a resident of Tula ten thousand rubles under Part 2 of Art. 5.26 Administrative Code of the Russian Federation (intentional public desecration of objects religious veneration, signs or emblems of ideological symbols and paraphernalia).

January 19, 2021 Magistrate's Court judicial district № 43 Uzlovsky judicial district of the Tula region dismissed the case under Part. 3 Article. 5.26 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (implementation by a religious organization activities without indicating its official full name) in regards to the pastor of the Church of Adventist Christians of the Seventh Day of the city of Uzlovaya Vadim Zhelika.

Some nationalist organizations did not remain away from the political events associated with the return and arrest of Alexei Navalny. January 17, 2021 some representatives "Movements of nationalists" arrived at Vnukovo airport to meet Navalny, but it is impossible to say how many there were.

One of the leaders of the Church of the last testament, Vladimir Vedernikov said that he had been tortured in a pre-trial detention center. GU FSIN does not confirm this information. February 1, 2021 lawyers person involved in the case of the Church of the Last Testament, Vladimir Vedernikov , was informed that their the client was tortured in SIZO-1 in Novosibirsk. Vedernikov complained that he was tortured two cellmates, demanding to confess and start cooperating with the investigation.

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave instructions to the Supreme Court based on questions asked in December by Alexander Verkhovsky, director of the Sova Center. He recommended the Supreme Court to study the issue of introducing an administrative prejudice under Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremist activity) and provide clarifications regarding judicial practice in cases related to religious freedoms.

January 28, 2021 Public Municipal Commission of Bryansk approved the amended projects for the improvement of squares of Energetikov and Proletarian. The Proletarian Square improvement project does not include the construction of the temple, which was opposed by the locals. city ​​authorities emphasized that the project "does not involve the construction of places of worship" . Benches, a fountain and a playground will be installed in the park.

January 30, 2021 it became known that in the Orthodox churches of Tula, leaflets are being distributed with a call to refuse from compliance with anti-epidemic measures - wearing masks, maintaining distance, use of antiseptics, as well as from vaccination. The authors of the leaflets call vaccination from COVID-19 "genocide of the people" and claim that the Russian Orthodox The church is against vaccinations.

Boris Zhirnov was arrested under Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses for the fact that in his video Svarogov Square was demonstrated, for which the driver of the "van" had previously been arrested. On January 23, 2021, the Central District Court of Khabarovsk arrested Boris Zhirnov, a correspondent for Arsenievsky Vesti, for 10 days under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (public demonstration of the symbols of an extremist organization).

The regional court decided that the lower instance had made a mistake in reclassifying the actions of the defendant from organizing the activities of an extremist organization to participating in it. On January 29, 2021, the Ulyanovsk Regional Court considered the appeals and the prosecutor’s submission against the verdict against six Jehovah’s Witnesses, which was handed down in October 2020 by the Zasviyazhsky District Court of Ulyanovsk.

In Arkhangelsk he was arrested under Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, activist Andrey Borovikov, who in 2014 kept a parody of the intro of the TV series Friends on VKontakte. On January 31, 2021, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Arkhangelsk arrested him for eight days under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (public demonstration of Nazi symbols) Andrei Borovikov, former coordinator of Alexei Navalny's headquarters in Arkhangelsk.

The North Caucasus reacted with restraint to the calls of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to go to the rally: on January 23, out of seven subjects of the North Caucasian Federal District, only in the Stavropol Territory and Dagestan were crowded actions in his support. In other places, individuals took to the streets, and only the brushes in their hands betrayed their intentions.

We do not know (yet) about hate crimes committed in January 2021 in Russia. mainly The public activity of nationalists in January was associated with opposition actions, which were carried out by supporters of Alexei Navalny, and nationalists were active "on both sides of the barricades". Since January, Zakhar Prilepin's party "For Truth" (merging with A Just Russia) became noticeable in street politics.

At the end of January it became known that the website of the administration of the Uzlovsky district of the Tula region published a list of registered on the territory of the district of religious organizations, some of which are labeled as "sect".

Resident of Stavropol fined for anti-Semitic appeals and possession of weapons. On February 1, 2021, it became known that the Leninsky District Court of Stavropol sentenced a 44-year-old local resident to a fine of 60 thousand rubles. According to the materials of the case, a resident of Stavropol published anti-Semitic statements in the social network VKontakte. A criminal case under Article 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremist activities) was initiated in September 2020.