On the night of January 1, 2009 in Moscow, unknown people painted a swastika on the walls of the church of St. Nicholas in Otradnoye and left "inscriptions of fascist content." Anti-religious inscriptions were also painted on the walls of the houses adjacent to the temple. Sources An Orthodox church in Moscow's Otradnoye district suffered from vandals // Interfax-religion. 2008. January 6th.

On the night of January 1, unidentified people painted fascist inscriptions and images of swastikas on the walls of the church of St. Nicholas in Otradnoye. Anti-religious inscriptions were also painted on the walls of the houses adjacent to the temple. Sources An Orthodox church in Moscow's Otradnoye district suffered from vandals // Interfax-religion. 2009. January 6th.

On December 27, 2008, neo-Nazis attacked visitors to the concert of the Purgen punk group near the Estakada club in Moscow. It is reported that it is precisely known that 2 people were seriously injured. - One young man was hospitalized with stab wounds, one girl was also stabbed. One of the attackers was detained by the concert attendees and handed over to the police.

The Armavir prosecutor's office charged independent lawyer Andrei Mozzhegorov under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national, racial, religious hatred) in connection with the distribution of the pamphlet of the Athos monk Athanasius "Give us the Motherland!". According to the Russian Idea , a criminal case against him was initiated back in 2007. The case is being considered by the Armavir City Court of the Krasnodar Territory.

At the city cemetery in the city of Sosnovy Bor near St. Petersburg, more than two dozen graves were desecrated. The prosecutor's office of the Leningrad region reports that crosses were broken and turned upside down, photographs with the faces of the dead were smeared with paint. In addition, painted pentagrams and inscriptions using satanic themes have been found.

On January 5, representatives of the Orthodox community in Moscow held a prayer service in Chisty Lane. In this way they tried to protest against the “slander campaign” against the Patriarchal Locum Tenens Metropolitan Kirill, reports Interfax .

January 11, 2009 The Dorogomilovsky Court of Moscow held the first hearing in the case against the leader of the Movement Against Illegal Immigration (DPNI) Alexander Potkin (Belov). The leader of the DPNI is charged under Part 1 of Art.

On the evening of January 10, 2009 in Moscow in a park on the street. Kibalchich, three teenagers aged 14-17 attacked a citizen of Cameroon (previously it was reported that the victim was a citizen of Nigeria) Essol. The attackers inflicted four stab wounds to the foreigner in the back and cut his hands. The citizen of Cameroon lost consciousness from his wounds and was hospitalized in serious condition. The victim died on the night of January 11, 2009 in the hospital.

At the end of December 2008, the Investigative Department of the FSB of Russia for the Samara Region opened a criminal case under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 (participation in the activities of an extremist organization) against National Bolshevik Roman Mishurov.

January 2, 2009 in the south of Moscow on the street. Biryulevskaya, near house No. 22, the corpse of a citizen of Uzbekistan with multiple stab wounds was discovered. Some time later, at house No. 11 on the same street, there was another native of Uzbekistan with stab wounds, who later died in the intensive care unit of the hospital. The investigation is considering all versions of what happened, including murder motivated by national hatred.

On January 10, 2009, it became known that 7 people from the Caucasus and Central Asia were attacked in Moscow in the first 10 days of the new year. It is reported that all the victims, including natives of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and China, were stabbed, three of them died. Three crimes were committed in the Filevsky Park area. In all cases, involvement in Nazi skinhead attacks cannot be ruled out.

According to Moscow law enforcement agencies, almost 110 thousand people took part in Christmas services in the capital. The Moscow City Internal Affairs Directorate reported that 108.5 thousand people visited the city’s operating churches (about 260) on Christmas night. About 11 thousand of them took part in the festive service in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

On January 10, 2009, the Tobolsk City Court passed a verdict against a student of the Tobolsk School of Arts and Culture. Alyabyev, who wrote calls in the city center and on the cafe building "to commit violent acts against persons of non-Slavic nationality" . The court found the minor guilty under Part 1 of Article 282 (inciting national hatred) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and sentenced him to 100 hours of free community service.

On January 1, an attempt was made to set fire to an Orthodox church in Karabulak (Ingushetia). Several empty fuel bottles were found at the scene. The interior of the temple was not damaged. Police officers are looking for those responsible for the arson. Sources An attempt was made to set fire to an Orthodox church in Ingush Karabulak // Interfax-religion. 2009. January 3rd.

On January 5, at the exit from the Kropotkinskaya metro station, police officers detained the chairman of the Council of the Orthodox Brotherhood in the name of the Holy Martyr Vladimir (under the jurisdiction of the ROAC), Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia Oleg Filatchev. He was heading to the building of the Moscow Patriarchate in Chisty Lane to hold a prayer stand there on the eve of the Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church and the MP. In addition to O.