The prosecutor requested terms of seven and a half years for the Yalta residents charged under Art. 282.2 and 282.3 of the Criminal Code. On January 30, 2023, the debate of the parties in the case of four Jehovah's Witnesses began in the Yalta City Court. The public prosecutor asked the court to impose a sentence of seven and a half years in prison on Sergei Lyulin, accused under Part 1 of Art.

In 2022, law enforcement agencies began to register more extremist crimes and initiate more cases to justify terrorism on the Internet. On January 20, 2023, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs published a report on the state of crime over the past year. According to the report, in January-December 2022, 2,233 terrorist crimes were registered (+4.5% by 2021).

Aleksey Vlasenko was sentenced to imprisonment and a fine. On October 12, 2022, the Yegorlyksky District Court of the Rostov Region sentenced Alexei Vlasenko (born 1979) under Part 1 of Art. 30 h. 1 tbsp. 223.1 of the Criminal Code (preparation for the illegal manufacture of explosives, alteration or repair of explosive devices). The convict was sentenced to imprisonment for a period of 4 years and 9 months and a fine of 300 thousand rubles. Vlasenko appealed against the decision of the court.

The Smolensk opposition leader was sentenced to six and a half years in prison for posts on the social network. in July 2022 On January 31, 2023, the Military Court of Appeal, located in Vlasikha, Moscow Region, considered an appeal against the sentence handed down to Sergey Komandirov by the 2nd Western District Military Court . The verdict was left unchanged. On May 18, 2023, this decision was approved by the Supreme Court.

In January 2023, it became known that in Mezhdurechensk, Kemerovo Region, "USSR citizen" Natalya Kandykova was declared insane. Recall that cases of participation in a banned organization and its financing (Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code and Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code) were initiated in the summer of 2022 against 64-year-old Natalya Kandykova and her 32-year-old daughter Maria Viltovskaya.

On January 30, 2023, it became known about the conflict around the sports palace in Pushkino near Moscow, whose administration leased one of the halls to the Muslim community. Parents of children involved in the sports palace are outraged. Muslims began to rent a gym for Friday prayers in the summer of 2022, when the sports sections were on vacation.

In Krasnoyarsk, a case was initiated under Art. 280 (public calls for extremist activities) for xenophobic publications on the Internet. At the end of January 2023, a criminal case was opened in Krasnoyarsk against a 52-year-old local resident working as a baker. The case was initiated for comments on the Internet: the “cleaner” persistently suggested that the Russian people unite and burn visitors in ovens. A criminal case has been initiated under Art.

Due to the increase in the number of administrative cases under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (production and distribution of prohibited materials), we combine such cases into a single list for each month. The data are given without taking into account the decisions of the courts, which we consider to be clearly unlawful.

In Anapa, four members of the Trade Union of the USSR were detained for trying to order the murder of a bailiff. In January 2023, Aleksey Glimeydo, Yuri Sadlovsky, Igor Guzhev and Stanislav Parksheev were detained in Anapa, who ordered the murder of a bailiff. They handed over canisters of incendiary liquid to the police officers embedded in their group from among the employees of the Center "E", who were hired to set fire to the house and car of a civil servant.

After the Supreme Court overturned the acquittal of Jehovah's Witnesses from Kamchatka, the regional court again placed them on probation. On January 31, 2023, the Kamchatka Regional Court considered for the third time the appeals against the sentencing of Jehovah's Witnesses Konstantin Bazhenov, his wife Snezhana Bazhenova and Vera Zolotova. Each of the accused was sentenced by the court to a two-year suspended sentence under part 2 of Art.

Earlier, Nikitenko was sentenced to three years in prison under Art. 280.3 and 297 of the Criminal Code. The regional court overturned the verdict and issued a new one itself, while the term was reduced by only a month.

The ECtHR awarded the activist more than 16 thousand euros in compensation after the attack on him at LGBTQ protests. On January 30, 2023, the European Court of Human Rights awarded compensation for non-pecuniary damage in the amount of 16.3 thousand euros to Vasily Ivanov, an activist from St. Petersburg.