On June 23, 2026, in the Moscow region, a court made a decision in the case under Art. 20.33 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (participation in the activities of a foreign or international organization whose activities are recognized as undesirable in the Russian Federation) in relation to one of the Protestant churches.

Daniil Nuryev was sentenced to three years of forced labor. On June 10, 2026, the Kirovsky District Court of Yekaterinburg passed a verdict in the criminal case of Daniil Nuryev, born in 2003, under Part 2 of Art. 214 of the Criminal Code (vandalism motivated by national hatred), Part 1 of Art. 280 (public calls for extremist activities), Part 2 of Art. 213 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism). The court sentenced Daniil Nuryev to three years of forced labor.

Let us also recall that we generally advocate the exclusion of the unclear term “social group” from the rules on incitement to hatred precisely because of its broad interpretation. On April 15, 2026, the Central District Court of Komsomolsk-on-Amur dismissed the case of Yuri Shcherbina under Art. 20.3.1 Code of Administrative Offenses (humiliation of human dignity based on membership in a social group).

A resident of Aldan received a suspended sentence for posting comments on a social network. On June 24, 2026, the Supreme Court of Yakutia found the 18-year-old Aldan resident guilty under paragraph “c” of Part 2 of Art. 354.1 of the Criminal Code (rehabilitation of Nazism).

A resident of the Smolensk region is accused of posting comments calling for xenophobic violence on the Internet. On June 25, 2026, it became known that a criminal case had been opened in the Smolensk region against a 39-year-old local resident under Part 2 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremist activities). According to media reports, the person involved in the case posted comments calling for xenophobic violence.

The first sentence was passed under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code for the sale of books that the investigation considered to be LGBT literature. Ex-employee of Invividuum and Popcorn Books Pavel Ivanov, like two other defendants, entered into a pre-trial agreement and was sentenced to a suspended prison sentence. On June 25, 2026, the Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow sentenced the former sales director of Popcorn Books, Pavel Ivanov. He was found guilty under Part 1.1 and Part 2 of Art.

On June 25, 2026, it became known that Oleg Garmash, the head of the School of Life organization, had been convicted. The Prikubansky District Court of Krasnodar found him guilty under Part 1 of Art. 239 of the Criminal Code (creation of a religious or public association, the activities of which involve violence against citizens or other harm to their health), paragraph “a”, part 3 of Art. 131 of the Criminal Code (rape of a minor) and paragraph “a”, part 3 of Art.

Mark Nikerov is accused of posting comments on a social network approving the crimes of Nazi criminals. In mid-June 2026, the Investigative Department for the city of Karachaevsk of the Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Karachay-Cherkess Republic completed the investigation of the criminal case of Mark Nikerov under Part 1 of Art. 354.1 of the Criminal Code (rehabilitation of Nazism committed in public).