In March 2022, a criminal case was opened in Astrakhan against a 34-year-old local resident suspected of publishing on the Internet calls for the destruction of churches and violence against clergy. On March 4, 2022, a criminal case was initiated in Astrakhan under Part 2 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremism).

March 4, 2022 20th Arbitration the court of appeal approved the settlement agreement between the Ryazan diocese and the administration Ryazan about the building of school number 6 with in-depth study of the French language. In accordance with By agreement, the building is transferred to the ownership of the diocese, and the school is agreement on the free use of the building for a period of seven years. The Ryazan diocese refused claims stated in the claim.

Previously, believers were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment. On March 3, 2022, the Astrakhan Regional Court upheld the sentence of Jehovah's Witnesses Evgeniy and Olga Ivanov, Ruslan Diarov and Sergei Klikunov. Earlier, the Trusovsky District Court of Astrakhan sentenced them to real imprisonment on a CC. 1 and 2 Art. 282.2 (organization and participation in the activities of an extremist organization) and Part 1 of Art.

Pacifists are suspected of vandalism based on political hostility. On February 25, 2022, it became known about the initiation of a criminal case against a resident of Belgorod, Vasily D., who wrote several anti-war slogans at the Vodostroy bus stop in protest against a special military operation in Ukraine, under Part 2 of Art. 214 of the Criminal Code (vandalism motivated by political hostility). On March 4, information appeared about the initiation of a similar case under Part 2 of Art.

The Duma immediately adopted in the second and third readings the amendments introducing new administrative and criminal offenses relating to public statements. On March 4, 2022, the State Duma of Russia adopted in the second and third readings laws on amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses (CAO) and the Criminal Code (CC), concerning calls for sanctions, the spread of fakes about the Russian armed forces, their discrediting and calls to prevent the use of armed forces.