There was an attack in Moscow. Murad Hovhannisyan stabbed doctor Jamal Odilov several times. On December 13, 2021, in Moscow, Murad Oganesyan (born 1961) broke into one of the private dental clinics and hit doctor Jamal Odilov several times. The victim received severe injury. The attacker was arrested by a police officer. On December 15, Murad Hovhannisyan was arrested.

The Information Policy Committee considered the amendments received for the second reading of the bill on expanding the grounds for extrajudicial blocking. On December 16, 2021, a meeting of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications was held. The Committee considered amendments to the draft law on the extrajudicial blocking of information "substantiating" or "justifying" extremism and terrorism.

The chairman of the board of the military-patriotic club "Desantnik" was fined for a homophobic inscription demonstrated on the stage by the club's pupils. On December 16, 2021, the World Court of the Leninsky District of Yaroslavl fined Andrei Palachev, chairman of the board of the military-patriotic club Paratrooper, five thousand rubles.

The Naberezhnye Chelny City Court imposed suspended sentences on Jehovah's Witnesses Myakushin, Karimov, Matrashov, and Yulmetyev. On December 16, 2021, the Naberezhnye Chelny City Court of the Republic of Tatarstan passed sentence on four Jehovah's Witnesses. Vladimir Myakushin was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (organization of the activities of an extremist organization) and Part 1 of Art.

A Jehovah's Witness from Ufa was sentenced to a suspended sentence under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code. On December 16, 2021, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Bashkortostan upheld the sentence handed down to Jehovah's Witness Anatoly Vilitkevich. In September, a court in Ufa sentenced him to a two-year suspended sentence under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (participation in the activities of an extremist organization).

The Tverskoy District Court refused to recognize the out-of-court blocking of the channel of Navalny's associate Lyubov Sobol as illegal. On December 16, 2021, the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow denied Lyubov Sobol's claim to invalidate the blocking of her YouTube channel. This was announced by the project "Network freedoms" with reference to the lawyer Leonid Solovyov. Roskomnadzor began seeking to block the channel out of court in July 2021.

A 19-year-old resident of Ukhta was fined 20,000 rubles. On December 16, 2021, the Justice of the Peace of the Timansky judicial district of Ukhta considered the criminal case of a 19-year-old local resident. He was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 214 of the Criminal Code (vandalism) and fined 20 thousand rubles.

A court in Krasnoyarsk is finishing its consideration of the case of Jehovah's Witness Vitaly Sukhov, accused under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code. On December 16, 2021, the Zheleznodorozhniy District Court of Krasnoyarsk held a debate of the parties in the case of Jehovah's Witness Vitaly Sukhov, accused under Part 1 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (organization of the activities of an extremist organization). The public prosecutor asked the court to sentence him to six years in prison.

Mundep Lusya Stein is accused of displaying Nazi symbols for posting a picture in 2018 with the inscription "Lyusya Stein is a fascist deputy." On December 16, 2021, Lyudmila (Lyusya) Shtein, a municipal deputy of the Moscow district of Basmanny, a member of the Pussy Riot group, was detained when she left her house and was on her way to the penitentiary inspectorate to register.

The court sentenced Elena Menchikova to five years' imprisonment under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code. On December 16, 2021, the Circassian City Court of Karachay-Cherkessia sentenced Jehovah's Witness Yelena Menchikova to five 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) and involving others in its activities (part 1.1 article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).