The Moscow prosecutor's office believes that the purpose of the structures of supporters of the oppositionist Alexei Navalny is to prepare a "color revolution".

In Izhevsk, Jehovah's Witnesses were searched in connection with a new criminal case, and at least two people were taken into custody. On April 14, 2021, at least 12 addresses of Jehovah's Witnesses were searched in Izhevsk. A criminal case was initiated under Part 1 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (organization of the activities of an extremist organization). After the searches, six men aged 31 to 56 were detained, Jehovah's Witnesses report.

On April 15, 2021, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church appointed Metropolitan of Ekaterinodar and Kuban Pavel (Ponomarev) as vicar of the Moscow Metropolis, Metropolitan of Krutitsky and Kolomna. Let us recall that Metropolitan Juvenaly (Poyarkov) of Krutitsky and Kolomna, after the Synod on April 13 divided the Moscow diocese into five parts, retired. Previously, Metropolitan Pavel was the Patriarchal Exarch of all Belarus.

An elderly Jehovah's Witness from the Krasnodar Territory will spend seven and a half years in a colony. On April 15, 2021, the Krasnodar Regional Court upheld the verdict handed down on February 10 by the Abinsk District Court in the case of Jehovah's Witness Alexander Ivshin from the village of Kholmskaya. The verdict came into force.

One of the founders of the Maykop local religious organization of Jehovah's Witnesses became a suspect under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code. On April 16, 2021, the investigative department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Republic of Adygea announced the arrest of a 46-year-old resident of Maykop. He is suspected of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

April 11, 2021 34-year-old resident Petersburg, Grigory Ivanov staged a pogrom in St. Andrew's Cathedral. Temple staff felt that The visitor is behaving strangely. After they turned to him, the man began waving his arms, calling "to expel the merchants from the temple, tore off the mask from priest and threw the bottle into the window of the church shop, breaking the glass. The hooligan was detained by parishioners.

A resident of Murmansk received 14 years for preparing an explosion in the city. On April 16, 2021, the 2nd Western District Military Court sentenced Denis Shpicka, a resident of Murmansk, to 14 years in prison, with restriction of liberty for a period of 1 year and 6 months and a fine of 200 thousand rubles. Denis Shpychka was found guilty under Part 1 of Article 30, Part 1 of Article 205 (preparation to commit a terrorist act), Part 1 of Art.

In Chuvashia, a case was initiated under Art. 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses in relation to a student who in 2015 reposted the text of the radical feminist Lyubov Kalugina. On April 2, 2021, the prosecutor's office of the Leninsky district of Cheboksary opened a case on an administrative offense under Art. 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (incitement of hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity) in relation to student Marina Pralkova.