Alexey Seregin was fined for the picture that accompanied the post about the attack on the State Duma deputy. On July 27, 2021, the Yoshkar-Ola city court fined 1,500 rubles under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (public demonstration of the symbols of an extremist organization) Alexei Seregin, press secretary of the National Democratic Party in the Republic of Mari El.

Suspects under Art. 354.1 of the Criminal Code was a 29-year-old Chelyabinsk citizen. On July 30, 2021, the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee for the Chelyabinsk Region announced the initiation of a new criminal case under Part 1 of Art.

The trial of a Jehovah's Witness from Rostov-on-Don, accused under Art. 282.2 and 282.3 of the Criminal Code. On July 29, 2021, the Leninsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don held a debate between the parties in the case of Jehovah's Witness Andrey Okhrimchuk. He is accused of participating in the activities of an extremist organization (part 2 of article 282.2 of the Criminal Code) and financing extremism (part 1 of article 282.3 of the Criminal Code).

78-year-old Vasily Reznichenko was sentenced to a suspended sentence under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code. On July 29, 2021, the Amur Regional Court considered the appeal against the sentence of Vasily Reznichenko, a Jehovah's Witness from Zeya, and left it unchanged. Thus, the verdict entered into force. The Zeya District Court of the Amur Region in June sentenced 78-year-old Reznichenko to a two-year suspended sentence and six months of restricted freedom.

Another verdict under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code ruled in Birobidzhan. On July 30, 2021, the Birobidzhan District Court sentenced Jehovah's Witnesses Natalia Krieger to two and a half years' suspended imprisonment, finding her guilty of participating in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). The state prosecutor requested four years in prison for her and two years of restriction of liberty.

Orchanin was convicted under Art. 354.1 of the Criminal Code for uploading a photo of Hitler to the Memory Bank website. On July 30, 2021, the Orenburg Regional Court sentenced Andrey Akimov, 32, a resident of Orsk. The court found him guilty under paragraph "c" part 2 of Art.

Natalya Rezontova, who supports Navalny, was not registered as a candidate for the State Duma. On July 30, 2021, the election commission of the Nizhny Novgorod Region refused to register journalist and activist Natalia Rezontova as a candidate for the State Duma elections in the 129th constituency from Yabloko.

The SOVA Center [1] presents a report for the first half of this year in comparison with the corresponding time period of 2017 when we last published such a semi-annual report. 2017 is also the year when mass ethnic xenophobia was at its minimum [2] and the scope of criminal prosecutions for “extremist statements” at its maximum, the year of the “Maltsev revolution,” which marked the complete collapse of the organized nationalist movement.

Comedian Idrak Mirzalizade is brought to justice for an excerpt from a speech. On July 30, 2021, the Prosecutor's Office of the Central Administrative District of Moscow opened an administrative case under Art. 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (inciting ethnic hatred) against stand-up comedian Idrak Mirzalizade. The reason was the statements of Mirzalizade in the release of the show "Crackdowns" on YouTube, which was released on March 1, 2021.