Previously, four believers received real terms; one was given a two-year suspended prison sentence. On January 20, 2022, the Kursk Regional Court upheld the sentences of Jehovah's Witnesses Andrey Andreev, Andrey Ryshkov, Alexander Vospitanyuk, Artyom and Alevtina Bagratyan, convicted under Parts 1 and 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (organization of the activities of an extremist organization or participation in the activities of such).

A new defendant has appeared in the case of the community of believers in the city of Gryazi. On January 20, 2022, it became known that the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee for the Lipetsk Region opened a case against a Jehovah's Witness from the city of Gryazi under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 (participation in the activities of an extremist organization) and Part 1 of Art. 282.3 (financing of extremist activities).

On January 21, 2022, it became known about the beginning of the trial consideration of the claim of the prosecutor's office challenging the legality of transaction the sale of the land plot transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church on Tveritskaya embankment in Yaroslavl. The defendant in the lawsuit is the Yaroslavl diocese.

Center "Sova" held a presentation of the book by Mikhail Akhmetiev and the report of Vera Alperovich. On January 20, 2022, in Moscow, in the Open Space, the SOVA Center presented the book by Mikhail Akhmetyev "Citizens without the USSR. Communities of "Soviet Citizens" in Modern Russia" and the report of Vera Alperovich ""If you die, you start again from the beginning ...": public activity of the ultra - right groups, summer-autumn 2021" in Open Space.

January 17, 2022 Nevelsk City Court Sakhalin Region court found Jehovah's Witness Yevgeny Kulakov guilty under Part 1 of Art. 1 st. 328 of the Criminal Code (evasion of conscription for military service) and fined him for 120 thousand rubles. The believer reported that he was denied the right to alternative civilian service.

19 January 2022, it became known that the residents of Kazan began collecting signatures under petition against the construction of a cathedral mosque on the banks of the Kazanka. IN for several years, options for sites for construction were discussed , but in January 2022, President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov said that the place for construction has already been chosen - on the opposite bank of the Kazanka from the Kremlin - "there subway, good view .

On January 20, 2022, the Arbitration Court of the Ural District, having considered the complaint of the Ekaterinburg diocese, overturned the decisions of the previous courts and sent the case of ownership of 14 buildings of the Sredneuralsky Monastery for a new consideration. Let us recall that earlier the Arbitration Court of the Sverdlovsk Region recognized the ownership of the monastery complex as the diocese, and the 17th Arbitration Court of Appeal overturned this decision.