On August 21, 2023, it became known that the authorities of Uglich were going to demolish the Alexander Nevsky Chapel due to its emergency condition. The diocese does not object, but residents, on the contrary, are in favor of preserving the chapel. The chapel, built on Assumption Square in 2004, is part of the memorial “Defenders of the Fatherland at all times.” The building is on the balance sheet of the city administration, and there are no funds for restoration in the city budget.

On August 14, 2023, the Primorsky District Court of St. Petersburg considered the administrative claim of the Deputy Prosecutor of the Leningrad Region for recognition of the text of the book “Siege” (“Siege”) by James Mason (Mason). According to the press service of the courts of St. Petersburg, on October 20, 2021, the investigative department of the Federal Security Service of Russia for the Republic of Buryatia opened a criminal case under Part 1 and Part 2 of Art.

Semyon Vasiliev was found guilty under Art. 20.3.1 Code of Administrative Offenses due to statements about Russians. On August 4, 2023, the Novoaltaisky City Court of the Altai Territory fined local resident Semyon Vasiliev five thousand rubles under Art. 20.3.1 Code of Administrative Offenses (incitement of hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity). The reason for the administrative case was Vasilyev’s comment to a post in the “Barnaul Incident” group on VKontakte.

In Yekaterinburg, unknown persons destroyed the memorial to the murdered graduate student from Gabon, Francois Njelassili. On August 21, 2023, in Yekaterinburg, on Malysheva Street, two unknown young people destroyed an impromptu memorial that appeared in the city after the murder of a graduate student from Gabon, Francois Njelassili. According to eyewitnesses, the young people jumped onto the flowerbed and kicked the flowers onto the floor.

In Kirov, a sentence was passed for xenophobic shouts and an attack on a passerby. In August 2023, in the Kirov region, the court passed a verdict under Part 1 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremist activities), Part 2 of Art. 213 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism committed by a group of persons motivated by ideological hatred and enmity, with the use of violence).

On August 6 and 19, 2023, attacks on gatherings of furry fans occurred in St. Petersburg. On August 6, 2023, in St. Petersburg in Udelny Park, 19-year-old Daniil Magrov with an airsoft grenade attacked participants in a picnic of furry fans. The Furrburg picnic was organized by the St. Petersburg furry community on VKontakte. Several dozen people came to the event. Magrov pulled the pin from the grenade, those gathered ran up to him and threw him to the ground.

A suspect in the murder of a graduate student from Gabon, Francois Njelassili, was detained in Yekaterinburg. On August 19, 2023, 23-year-old Danil Fomin, a native of Artemovsky, was detained in Yekaterinburg on suspicion of murdering 32-year-old graduate student from Gabon Francois Njelassili. On August 21, the Leninsky District Court of Yekaterinburg remanded Fomin in custody until October 17, 2023.

The reason for the persecution of Sergei Patsiashvili was his publications on VKontakte. On August 23, 2023, it became known that a criminal case had been opened in Tambov under Part 1 of Art. 280.3 of the Criminal Code (repeated discreditation of the armed forces and government agencies) against Sergei Patsiashvili.

Three Jehovah's Witnesses from the Vladimir region were accused under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code. On August 23, 2023, the investigative department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Vladimir region announced the initiation of criminal cases under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (participation in the activities of an extremist organization) against three residents of Kovrov - men born in 1952, 1969 and 1987.

In the Moscow region, a young man attacked a girl because she was “inappropriately dressed” - wearing long sports shorts. On August 23, in Nakhabino, Moscow Region, a young man hit a 21-year-old resident of Nakhabino near Moscow, who was jogging in Druzhba Park. The reason for the attack was that she was “inappropriately dressed” - wearing long sports shorts and a T-shirt. The attacker in black clothes grabbed her by the arm and, shouting “Why do you look like that?”, hit her in the face.