Another resident of Mari El was fined for a prohibited video. On April 5, 2021, the Sovetsky District Court of Mari El fined 1 thousand rubles under Art. 20.29 Code of Administrative Offenses (public dissemination of extremist materials) 33-year-old Stanislav Rukavishnikov. According to the regional prosecutor's office, he posted a video on VKontakte, which was recognized as extremist by the Kirovsky District Court of Novosibirsk.

A law has been adopted that introduces into the electoral legislation the concepts of "a candidate affiliated with a person acting as a foreign agent" and "a candidate who is an individual acting as a foreign agent." On April 6, in the second reading, and on April 7, in the third, the State Duma adopted the law on "foreign agent" candidates. It was introduced in the lower house of parliament in November 2020 and passed on first reading in December.

The third Jehovah's Witness from the village of Kholmskaya was sentenced to a real term under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code. On April 6, 2021, the Abinsk District Court of the Krasnodar Territory sentenced Jehovah's Witness Alexander Shcherbina to three years in prison under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (participation in the activities of an extremist organization). As an additional punishment, he was given a year of restriction of freedom.

The following is our monthly review of instances of xenophobia and radical nationalism, along with any government countermeasures, for March 2021. According to data collected by SOVA Center, five people were targeted in ideologically motivated attacks in March 2021, in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Among the victims was Vlad Tupikin, a well-known anarchist, editor of the journal Volya , who was attacked on March 27 in Moscow.

The police went to Navalny's headquarters in St. Petersburg and seized stickers and leaflets to check for extremism. On April 7, 2021, police officers came to the St. Petersburg headquarters of the opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who received an oral signal about the possible presence of extremist literature, illegal campaign products, firecrackers, etc. in the premises of the headquarters.

April 6, 2021 Chairman of the State Duma Committee on the Development of Civil society, issues of public and religious associations Sergey Gavrilov appealed to the Prosecutor General's Office with a request to check the video clip "New Wave" by Morgenstern and DJ Smash for signs of abuse religious feelings.

In Lipetsk, in several public places, unknown people painted a fascist swastika. Images of Nazi symbols were spotted on Pobedy Avenue at the bus stop st. Dovator, a white swastika is depicted in front of the post office. And also on one of the houses along Pobeda Avenue between the pharmacy and the bank branch, two swastikas are depicted. Photos with Nazi symbols were sent by a resident of the city to one of the local newspapers with a comment that no one paints over images of swastikas.

November 27, 2020 in the Federal List of Extremist organizations published on the official website of the Ministry of Justice, one organization was added .

The Investigative Committee reported on the investigation of four cases on the continuation of the activities of the organization of Jehovah's Witnesses in the Abinsk region. Earlier, three local Jehovah's Witnesses had already been sentenced to real terms.