An appeal has been filed against the decision to block the Tor browser site. On January 11, 2022, the lawyers of Roskomsvoboda filed in the interests of The Tor Project Inc. an appeal against the decision of the Saratov District Court, which recognized the information on the main page of the Tor project as prohibited for distribution.

Alexander Rybkin was charged with displaying the symbols of an extremist organization. On January 24, 2022, the National Bolshevik Alexander Rybkin was taken to the police in Moscow. In his regard, the police decided to draw up a protocol under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (public demonstration of the symbols of an extremist organization).

The Nevelsk city court is finishing its consideration of the case of five Jehovah's Witnesses. On January 21, 2022, the debate of the parties in the case of five Jehovah's Witnesses began in the Nevelsk City Court of the Sakhalin Region. The state prosecutor asked to sentence them to suspended sentences. He asked Yevgeny Yelin to be sentenced under Part 1 of Art.

In Moscow, attackers left insulting inscriptions on photographs of those killed on January 19, 2009 lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova. appeared on far-right Telegram channels On January 22, 2022, photos taken on the site of an impromptu memorial in memory of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova, who were killed on January 19, 2009, . Offensive inscriptions appeared on the portrait of the dead.

In Sevastopol, a court sentenced a local resident to a suspended sentence for inciting extremism and possession of weapons. On January 22, 2022, the press service of the FSB department for Crimea and Sevastopol announced that a sentence had been passed under Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremist activity), article 222 of the Criminal Code (illegal possession of firearms and explosives).

The following is our review of the primary and most representative events in the misuse of Russia's anti-extremist legislation in December 2021.

The prosecutor's office requested six years in prison under Art. 282.2 and 282.3 of the Criminal Code for Astrakhan Anna Safronova.

The consideration of the case of three Jehovah's Witnesses from Chuvashia, accused under Part 1 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code. On January 21, 2022, the Kalininsky District Court of Cheboksary held a debate between the parties in the case of three Jehovah's Witnesses 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 them to real terms of imprisonment.