A resident of Moscow fined for publishing photos that offend Christian symbols. On March 9, 2023, the Solntsevsky District Court of Moscow found Pavel Petryakov guilty under Part 2 of Art. 5.26 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (deliberate public desecration of religious or liturgical literature, objects of religious veneration, signs or emblems of ideological symbols and paraphernalia, or their damage or destruction) and fined him 30 thousand rubles.

Zinaida Yakovleva was fined 500 thousand rubles. On April 21, 2023, the Orenburg Regional Court rendered a verdict under paragraph “c” of Part 2 of Art. 354.1 of the Criminal Code (rehabilitation of Nazism) to Zinaida Yakovleva. According to the court, Yakovleva added the comment “Still, Hitler was right when he exterminated the Jews” to one of the posts in a freely accessible social network. They don’t even want to remember who burned them in the ovens of Auschwitz and shot them at Babi Yar.

A resident of Yelets is accused of inciting national hatred. In April 2023, a criminal case was transferred to the Yelets City Court of Lipetsk under paragraph “a” of Part 2 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred or enmity). On February 27, 2017, a 37-year-old resident of Yelets published a xenophobic text on VKontakte.

The court in Sochi arrested under Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses to Svetlana Matukhnova, who posted a Ukrainian greeting in English on Instagram. On April 19, 2023, the Central District Court of Sochi arrested Svetlana Matukhnova for five days, finding her guilty of publicly displaying the symbols or paraphernalia of an extremist organization (part 1 of article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

Ilya Florinsky was sentenced to six years in prison. On April 19, the 2nd Western Military Court sentenced under paragraph “h” of Part 2 of Art. 205.2 of the Criminal Code (public calls for terrorist activities) Orel resident Ilya Florinsky to 6 years in prison.

The reason was the publication on VKontakte of an image with a swastika and the riot police emblem. On January 25, 2024, the Yoshkar-Ola City Court fined local resident Andrei Sokolov one thousand rubles, finding him guilty under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 Code of Administrative Offenses (public display of Nazi symbols).

On April 19, 2023, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow chose a preventive measure for the former leader of the Chelyabinsk church “New Generation” Svyatoslav Yugov - detention. Yugov is charged with Part 3 of Art.