A case of hooliganism motivated by hatred was opened against Igor Maltsev and Sofia Semenova. On March 8, 2022, it became known that the police in St. Petersburg were asking the Vasileostrovsky District Court of the city to choose a preventive measure in the form of detention for local resident Igor Maltsev, who was detained as a suspect under paragraph “b” of Part 1 of Art. 213 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism motivated by political and ideological hatred).

At least one believer has been arrested. On March 3, 2022, in the Knyaz-Volkonsky rural settlement in the Khabarovsk Territory, searches were carried out at the residences of at least two families of Jehovah's Witnesses. During the searches, religious materials, electronic devices and personal records were seized. 60-year-old Jehovah's Witness Valery Rabota was detained for a period of two months. Obviously, a case was initiated against him under Part 1 of Art.

A resident of the Belogorsky district of Crimea was fined seven thousand rubles for "illegal" missionary activity. February 18, 2022 Magistrate's Court of Judicial Section No. 31 of the Belogorsk Judicial District of the Republic Crimea found local resident L. Palekha guilty under Part 4 of Art.

A protocol was drawn up against Marina Savvateeva under Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. On March 5, 2022, the Trans-Baikal Regional Court of Chita arrested a local lawyer and social activist Marina Savvateeva for 10 days under Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (public display of Nazi symbols). The reason was the repost that Savvateeva made on the social network from the page of the candidate of historical sciences.

Amendments to the draft law on electronic voting restrict the passive electoral right of those convicted of extremist crimes, even with an expired conviction, and also provide for the creation of a unified register of "foreign agents." On March 9, 2022, the State Duma Committee on State Construction and Legislation approved amendments to the legislation, which are supposed to be added to the second reading in the text of the bill No.

Mikhail Derendyaev, Alexander Kutin and Sergey Ashikhmin are charged under Part 1 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code. On February 14, 2022, the Pervomaisky District Court of Izhevsk received a case against three Jehovah's Witnesses—Mikhail Derendyaev, Alexander Kutin, and Sergei Ashikhmin. All three are charged under Part 1 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (organization of the activities of an extremist organization).