The Buddhist community of the Shad Tchup Ling Monastery, located on the top of Mount Kachkanar in the Sverdlovsk Region, is ready to leave the disputed territory. On February 2, 2021, it became known that the Buddhist community of the Shad Tchup Ling Monastery, located on the top of Mount Kachkanar in the Sverdlovsk Region, is ready to leave the disputed territory on February 8.

In Volgograd, priests received a blessing from the local bishop to read an appeal created to “prevent unauthorized rallies” after the Sunday sermon. On January 31, 2021, it became known that Volgograd priests received a verbal blessing from the local bishop to read the appeal of the Committee for Nationalities and Cossacks, created to “prevent unauthorized rallies” after the Sunday sermon.

The state prosecutor asks for the mother and son of the Baranovskys from Khakassia to be sentenced to five and eight years in prison, respectively, under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code. On February 1, 2021, during a debate in the Abakan City Court, the state prosecutor asked to sentence 46-year-old Jehovah's Witness Roman Baranovsky, accused under Part 1 of Art.

A resident of Murmanskaya was found guilty of public calls for extremism. On February 2, 2021, it became known that in Murmansk, the Leninsky District Court found 29-year-old local resident E. Americanova guilty under Part 2 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremism on the Internet) and sentenced her to a fine of 25 thousand rubles.

Administrative cases have been initiated on the fact of the transportation of two prohibited books. On February 2, 2021, the Rostov customs and the border department of the FSB of Russia in the Rostov region reported that publications recognized as extremist materials were found on board the ship Mission, which arrived in Rostov-on-Don from the Turkish port of Tuzla.

The verdict was approved for journalist Svetlana Prokopieva, who was fined under Art. 205.2 of the Criminal Code for a radio broadcast about the causes of an explosion in the UFSB building in Arkhangelsk. On February 2, 2021, the Military Court of Appeal upheld the sentence handed down to journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva under Part 2 of Art. 205.2 of the Criminal Code (justification of terrorism in the media).

Mikhail Shendakov was found guilty under Art. 282 and 280 of the Criminal Code. On February 2, 2021, the Krasnogorsk City Court of the Moscow Region found the activist and Colonel of the Armed Forces in the reserve Mikhail Shendakov guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred towards a social group) and Part 2 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremism on the Internet) and sentenced him to two and a half years of probation.

Due to the increase in the number of administrative cases under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (production and distribution of prohibited materials), we combine such cases into a single list for each month. On February 26, 2021, it became known that the Apsheronsky District Court of the Krasnodar Territory fined 38-year-old Olesya Avdeeva for publishing “materials stating that adherents of one of the religions are slaves” included in the FSEM on her social network page.