April 6, 2021 Ministry of Justice registered the order of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation on the introduction of the operation of the new nomenclature of scientific specialties. In particular, this list specialties were included: "theoretical theology", "historical theology" and "practical theology". Each of the specialties is divided into three research areas: Orthodoxy, Islam, Judaism. Other religious movements are not mentioned.

On April 9, 2021, in Moscow, near the Oktyabr cinema, during the Artdocfest festival, Sonth East Radical Blok (SERB) activists attacked director Vitaly Mansky. On April 9, 2021, director Vitaly Mansky was attacked by several SERB activists after an interview with The Associated Press. One of them tried "to intercept his throat with some kind of cloth", and then "some other people around" jumped up to Mansky, as a result, the director managed to fight back. The attackers fled the scene.

On April 5, 2021, an act of vandalism became known at the Sokol temple in Kaluga. Unknown people painted an Orthodox cross on the sacrificial stone. This temple has already been attacked by vandals in 2020. Sources Another vandalism at the Sokol temple... // VKontakte group "Pagans| Rodnovers | Kaluga. 2021. 5 April. Vandalism at the temple Sokol, Kaluga // Red ribbon. 2021. 5 April.

A resident of Kerch was detained for posting a video calling for extremist activities on the YouTube video hosting. In early April 2021, the investigative department of the FSB for Crimea and Sevastopol opened a criminal case against a resident of Kerch under Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremist activities). According to the FSB, a resident of Kerch (b. 1965) prepared a video calling for extremist activities and posted it on the YouTube video hosting.

Unknown people tried to burn the idol of Veles in Veliky Novgorod. On April 6, 2021, an attempt to burn down an idol became known. Veles in the park of Veliky Novgorod. Traces of arson were discovered by representatives native faith community "Volkhva". Sources Unknown tried to burn the idol of Veles in Veliky Novgorod // Red ribbon. 2021. 5 April.

April 8, 2021 head of the Spiritual Administration Muslims of Russia Mufti Ravil Gaynutdin sent to the President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, in which he expressed concern over the situation in spiritual sphere of the republic. He accused Mufti of Tatarstan Kamil Samigullin of spreading the teachings of the "marginal Turkish sect Ismail Agha".

Yuri Makeev brought to administrative responsibility for a comment under a post about police violence. March 29, 2021 Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Penza under Art. 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (inciting social hatred) sentenced 47-year-old Yuri Makeev to 20 hours of compulsory work.

Five believers are accused of organizing and financing an extremist organization, as well as participating in it. On April 8, 2021, during a debate in the Industrial District Court of Perm, the prosecutor requested punishment for five followers of the teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses. The state prosecutor demanded that Igor Turik be sentenced to nine years in prison, Boris Burylov and Viktor Kuchkov to seven years, and Yuri Vaag and Alexander Inozemtsev to four years in a penal colony.

In the Kemerovo region, a criminal case has been opened for xenophobic publications on a social network. In April 2021, the Investigative Department for the city of Berezovsky Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Kemerovo Region-Kuzbass initiated a criminal case against a local resident (born in 1978) under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred or enmity). Earlier in July 2020, the Berezovsky City Court fined the accused 10,000 rubles.

April 6, 2021 authorities of the Astrakhan region handed over to the Russian Orthodox Church the complex of the Annunciation Monastery, with Soviet era, under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Defense. "For the Ministry defense it was not an easy decision, associated with additional costs. Now the military commissariat, which has occupied the monastery since 1949, is being relocated to the building of the Caspian flotilla ,” said the governor of the region Igor Babushkin.