On December 18, 2019, two more criminal cases for faith became known, this time in the city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. The criminal cases are headed by D.S. Melnikov, FSB investigator. In the spring, he opened a case against Aleksandr Kozlitin, 44, and on December 10, 2019, he opened a hunt for Evgeniy Yelin, 45.