The court rulings said the Kolovrat could “legitimately be interpreted” as a “potentially nationalist” symbol. On December 7, 2024, the Novy Urengoy City Court of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District fined Ilya Sokolovsky one thousand rubles, and on December 17, Alexei Samokhvalov. Both were punished under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (public display of prohibited symbols) for displaying Kolovrat.

On January 14, 2025, the Arbitration Court of the Perm Territory received a claim from the Department of Land Relations of the Perm Administration against the Trinity Stefanov Monastery. The city authorities are trying to collect from the monastery the debt on renting the land plot through the court. The debt amounts to 408.4 thousand rubles. Sources The mayor's office collects rent debt from the monastery // Kommersant. 2025. January 20.

Alexander Basansky was arrested for 15 days for a comment and photo on VKontakte. On December 10, 2024, the Novocherkassk City Court of the Rostov Region arrested for 15 days under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 Code of Administrative Offenses (public display of prohibited symbols) by Alexander Basansky. The attention of law enforcement agencies was attracted by two of his publications on VKontakte. On April 21, 2022, Basansky published in the community “Rostov Main.

According to investigators, the Orenburg woman published on social networks a picture with a St. George ribbon and a swastika, which was accompanied by a “historically inaccurate” signature. On January 20, 2025, the Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Orenburg Region reported that the investigative department for the Southern Administrative District of Orenburg was investigating a case initiated under Part 4 of Art.

Leon Darsht was sentenced to 13 years in prison for a series of arson attacks, including a store, a house with migrants and equipment on a railway, as well as an attempted terrorist attack . On January 17, 2025, the Southern District Military Court sentenced Leon Darsht, a resident of the Krasnodar Territory, to 13 years in prison. Darsht Leon Vyacheslavovich, accused under Part 2 of Art. 167 (deliberate destruction or damage to someone else’s property, committed by arson), part 1 of Art.

Valery Ledkov is accused of financing extremism. Previously, his son was subject to criminal prosecution. In January 2025, it became known that on December 24, 2024, a criminal case was opened in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug for financing extremist activities (Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code) against Valery Ledkov. On December 28, the Khanty-Mansiysk City Court chose a preventive measure in the form of house arrest.

On January 20, 2025, the Tula Regional Court satisfied the claims of the regional prosecutor to recognize the public association of football fans “Cyborgs” as an extremist organization and ban its activities. Let us recall that in April 2024, the prosecutor’s office of the Tula region went to court with a demand to recognize “Cyborgs” as extremist. The Arsenal football fans' association Cyborgs was founded in 2023. The association included more than 10 far-right young people.

A resident of Kirishi lit a cigarette from the Eternal Flame and became a defendant in a criminal case. On January 20, 2025, the investigative department for the city of Kirishi of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Leningrad Region opened a criminal case under Part 3 of Art. 354.1 of the Criminal Code (insulting the memory of defenders of the Fatherland, desecration of the symbol of military glory) against a 33-year-old local resident.

Konstantin Khrabrov was fined, and three coins were confiscated from him. On December 6, 2024, the Moscow District Court of Kaliningrad fined one thousand rubles under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 Code of Administrative Offenses (public display of Nazi symbols) by Konstantin Khrabrov. The reason was the fact that he was selling three coins of Nazi Germany in the Antiques store, which depicted Nazi symbols, including the swastika. The Pfennigs were on display in the public domain.

On December 26, 2024, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Belgorod handed down a guilty verdict in the case of attacking passers-by. Denis Gubin was convicted under Part 2 of Article 213 Part 2 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism). His accomplice - under Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code, paragraph “a” of Part 2 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (incitement of national hatred), Part 3 of Art.

On January 17, 2025, police and riot police conducted a raid to identify migrants in a mosque in Surgut. Security forces arrived at the mosque after the end of Friday prayers. During the inspection, 91 people were taken to the department. Of these, administrative liability under Part 1 of Art. 18.8 of the Administrative Code (violation by a foreign citizen or stateless person of the rules of entry into the Russian Federation or the regime of stay) two were charged.

The case of two residents of Makhachkala, who are accused under Art. 354.1 of the Criminal Code will be considered again: in 2024, the verdict was erroneously pronounced by the district court, and not the republican one. On January 15, 2025, the Supreme Court of Dagestan received a criminal case against Yuliana Aliyeva and Maryam Chunkova, who are accused under Part 4 of Art. 354.1 of the Criminal Code (insult to the memory of defenders of the Fatherland, committed by a group of persons).

Alexander Konstantinov was sentenced to a large fine for trolling on the Nizhny Novgorod forum. On September 11, 2024, the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Court sentenced Alexander Konstantinov under Part 4 of Art. 354.1 of the Criminal Code (desecration of symbols of Russia’s military glory, insult to the memory of defenders of the Fatherland, humiliation of the honor and dignity of veterans of the Great Patriotic War, committed on the Internet).

On January 19, 2025, in Moscow, near the Open Space co-working space on Baumanskaya, neo-Nazis attacked anti-fascists who had gathered to watch a film in memory of the murdered anti-fascists. One of them was shot with a spray can, the other was hit in the kidney with a hammer. On January 19, the annual all-Russian event took place in memory of lawyer Stas Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, killed on January 19, 2009 .