Another believer was interrogated by security forces. On October 15, 2025, security forces conducted a search of a Jehovah's Witness in the city of Polyarny, after which she was taken to the police department in Snezhnogorsk and interrogated. Another believer, a resident of a neighboring village, was interrogated along with her. It is not yet known what specific case the Jehovah’s Witnesses were interrogated on. Believers are often persecuted under Art.

In Novosibirsk, the investigation into the case of attacks motivated by national hatred has been completed. On October 29, 2025, the third department for the investigation of particularly important cases of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Novosibirsk region announced that the investigation into the criminal case of the organizer and five members of the extremist community - Kirill Sidorov, Yaroslav Markin, Yegor Kobets and three minors - had been completed.

The defendant in the case was sentenced to three years of suspended imprisonment for seven transfers totaling 3.5 thousand rubles. On October 29, 2025, the Chkalovsky District Court of Yekaterinburg sentenced a local resident to three years of suspended imprisonment under Part 1 of Art. 282.3 of the Criminal Code (financing the activities of an extremist organization).

Military officer Mikhail Burshtinsky was found guilty under Art. 20.3.1 Code of Administrative Offences. On August 28, 2025, the 26th Garrison Military Court fined Baikonur resident Mikhail Burshtinsky 10 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 protocol against Burshtinsky was a video entitled “#YANEVERYU”, which he posted on the Odnoklassniki social network.

On October 29, 2025, it became known that the St. Petersburg City Court considered the administrative claim of the military prosecutor of the Leningrad Military District and recognized Mikhail Maurov’s songs “Russia is not for Russians” and “HOLOCAUST” as extremist. The songs were found freely available on the Internet.

Dmitry Golubev was sentenced to a year of forced labor. On October 28, 2025, the Balakovo District Court of the Saratov Region issued a verdict in the criminal case of Dmitry Golubev, accused under Part 2 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremist activities). According to the court, on December 23, 2023, Golubev posted comments on VKontakte calling for violent action against Roma. The defendant admitted his guilt in full and repented of his crime.

On October 20-26, 2025, further videos with direct actions appeared in far-right Telegram channels. The video, in particular, showed brutal beatings of people of Asian appearance, an alleged drug user, and beating with humiliation on a fake date. Violence On October 20, a video was posted showing a scene of a young man of Asian appearance being beaten in the forest. The start of the attack was left behind the scenes.

Andrey Trufanov was assigned forced labor. On October 28, 2025, the press service of the courts of the Amur Region reported that the Amur Regional Court commuted the sentence of a man convicted of financing extremism. In July 2025, the Zeysky District Court found Andrei Trufanov guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282.3 of the Criminal Code (financing extremist activities). He was sentenced to three and a half years in a general regime colony.

Emma Ryzhkina was given a suspended sentence. On October 17, 2025, the Ust-Kansky District Court of the Altai Republic sentenced Emma Ryzhkina (born 1961), accused under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (participation in the activities of a prohibited religious association) and Part 1 of Art. 282.3 of the Criminal Code (financing extremist activities). We are talking about participation in the activities of the neo-pagan movement “Ak Chan”.