In Yekaterinburg, a native of Africa was killed at a Burger King. On August 18, 2023, in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovskaya, a 32-year-old black graduate student of the Ural Federal University, Francois Njelassili from Gabon, was killed. The attack occurred at 6 a.m. at Burger King. According to the acquaintance of the deceased, two drunken young people approached them and with the words “Oh, look, Negro, let's give him a chirkan” a knife wound was inflicted.

On August 17, 2023, it became known about the decision of the Volgograd City Duma to transfer the building of the Catholic church on Prazhskaya Street to the ownership of the Catholic parish of St. Nicholas. During Soviet times, a cinema and a club operated in the building. In the 1990s, the building was transferred to the use of the Catholic community, and since 2008 the community has rented the temple building.

In Velikiye Luki, priests took part in the opening of a monument to Stalin. The diocese began an internal audit. On August 15, 2023, an eight-meter monument to Stalin was erected in Velikiye Luki, Pskov region - the monument was installed on the territory of the Mikron plant that manufactured it.

Alexey Konovalov from Magadan and Sergey Shiryaev from Moscow were fined 500 thousand rubles each. On August 18, 2023, the Mediazona portal reported that on January 24, 2023, the Magadan City Court of the Magadan Region fined local resident Alexey Konovalov 500 thousand rubles under Part 1 of Art. 282.3 of the Criminal Code (financing extremist activities). The Magadan Regional Court approved this decision on March 22, 2023.

On August 16, 2023, it became known that an indictment had been approved in the case of six residents of the North Caucasus Federal District accused of collaborating with At-Takfir Wal-Hijra. Depending on the role of each, they are charged with Part 1 of Art. 30, paragraph “a”, part 2, art. 205 of the Criminal Code (preparation for a terrorist act), Art. 205.1 of the Criminal Code (promotion of terrorist activities), art.