The European Court held that the ban on Falun Gong materials violated Art. 9 and 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, guaranteeing the right to freedom of expression and freedom of religion. On January 31, 2023, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) published a ruling on the complaints of the followers of the spiritual movement "Falun Gong" Mikhail Sinitsyn and Sergey Alekhin on the recognition of four materials of the movement as extremist materials.

The European Court found that Russia had violated the site's owners' right to freedom of expression. On January 17, 2023, the European Court of Human Rights published the decision on complaint 55496/19 “Mediafocus LLC v. Russia”, issued on December 6, 2022. The complaint was filed on October 11, 2019 by the owner of the opposition online publication Ezhednevny Zhurnal, founded in 2004.

On January 31, 2023, at the general meeting of the monastic Sangha, the acting Supreme Lama of Kalmykia was elected: he was the rector of the Central Khurul - Geshe Tendzin Choydak (Mutul Ovyanov). In addition, three candidates were elected at the meeting: in addition to Geshe Tendzin Choidak, these are Gelung Lobsang Tsondu (Anja Aleksandrovich Khartskhaev) and Gelung Tendzin Norzang (Sanal Badmaevich Mukabenov).

In February 2023, the court replaced the suspended sentence for a real participant in the Russian Marches, Mikhail Shendakov. On February 1, 2023, the Krasnogorsk City Court replaced retired colonel and activist Mikhail Shendakov with a suspended sentence due to the video “Surkov promised war to Donbass!” to two and a half years of a real term of imprisonment. Recall that the colonel was detained on January 31.

In the status of Victoria Tkacheva's messenger there was an inscription "Glory to Ukraine!" in Korean. On February 1, 2023, the police officers drew 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) in relation to a resident of Sochi, Victoria Tkacheva The next day, the Central District Court of Sochi imposed a fine of two thousand rubles on her.

On January 31, 2023, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in the Nabokikh and Others v. Russia case, which brought together the complaints of several Jehovah's Witnesses whose religious meetings in 18 Russian regions were disrupted by security forces in 2010-2013.

Victoria Gomzyakova was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. On January 11, 2023, the Central District Court of Sochi arrested local resident Victoria Gomzyakova for two days. She was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (public demonstration of the symbols of an extremist organization).

Earlier, believer Ildar Urazbakhtin was given a six-year suspended sentence. On February 2, 2023, the Krasnoyarsk Regional Court upheld the verdict against Jehovah's Witness from Kodinsk, Ildar Urazbakhtin, convicted under Part 1 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (organization of the activities of an extremist organization).

In the spring of 2019, a law was signed supplementing Art. 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (petty hooliganism) in parts 3-5, which allow citizens to be fined for disseminating on the Internet "information expressing in an indecent form that offends human dignity and public morality, a clear disrespect for society, the state, official state symbols of the Russian Federation, the Constitution of the Russian Federation or bodies exercising state power in the Russian Federation.