On December 6, 2008, in Moscow on Lipetskaya Street, a Russian man was attacked, whom the attackers mistook for a priest because of his large beard. It is unclear from media reports whether the victim survived. This became known from the news about the detention of a group suspected of attempting a terrorist attack at a McDonald's restaurant in January 2009. According to the investigation, the detainees consider themselves to be part of the neo-pagan movement of the Rodnovers.

On December 26, 2008, the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for Tatarstan initiated a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 (inciting ethnic hatred or using the media) on the fact of one of the publications of the organization Milli Mejlis (national parliament) of the Tatar people. On January 2, 2009, another case was initiated under the same article, and then the cases were merged into one proceeding.

On January 21, 2009, it became known that a criminal case had been opened in Omsk under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity) for distributing DVDs with an extremist film. were found in the mailboxes of several houses in the city Discs with a film on the Federal List of Extremist Materials . The film's title has not been revealed.

On January 20, 2009, the Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg declared illegal the search conducted in December 2008 by investigators of the UPC at the Memorial Research Center. The court also ruled to return all the materials seized during the search, but refused to give a legal assessment of the actions of the Investigative Committee.

A group of people suspected of committing a series of terrorist attacks has been detained in Moscow. Three detainees are 17-year-old residents of Moscow. Three more are natives of Volgograd: Pyotr Bashelutskov, head of the department for strategic analysis and state policy development of the Ministry of Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy of the Russian Federation, his cousin David Bashelutskov and Stanislav Lukhmynin, who is not working.

Since the beginning of 2009, police in the Sverdlovsk region have detained 14 members of the Jehovah's Witnesses organization for distributing religious literature. Detentions were made in Asbest, Bisert, Nevyansk and Pyshma. The detainees were searched, photographed and fingerprinted.

On January 17, another picket took place in defense of the Ryazan Kremlin historical and architectural museum-reserve. The organizers planned to hold the action in the center of Ryazan, on Victory Square, but the city administration proposed moving the picket to the alley of the park in front of the Kremlin, because Sanitary cleaning was planned for the square that day. About 70 people took part in the action.

On January 21, 2009, three Nazi skinheads were arrested in Moscow, suspected of numerous attacks on people of non-Slavic appearance. 22-year-old Anton Vasiliev and 18-year-old Konstantin Kucher and Andrey Gordeev living in Moscow were detained. According to the preliminary investigation, the detainees were involved in approximately 20 racist attacks, the victims of which were Chinese, Africans, Koreans and one Russian citizen from Buryatia .

On the morning of January 15, unidentified persons smashed five windows in the rehearsal hall of the house of prayer for Evangelical Christian Baptists in Zelenograd. Bottles and clods of frozen earth were thrown into broken windows. The police department was called to record the incident. The parishioners installed the new glass on their own. Sources Vandalism in Zelenograd // Site RSECB. 2009. January 18.

On January 21, 2009, it was reported that the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights had detected anti-Semitism in a brochure published by the All-Russian Institute for Advanced Training of Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. We are talking about a brochure by Evgenia Gerasimenko entitled "Extremism: the concept, socio-economic, political and historical causes of the phenomenon, trends in its development.

On January 20, 2009, the Stavropol Leninsky District Court began considering the case of a group of Nazi skinheads accused of a series of racist attacks. Almost all of the 10 people, most of whom are students of city universities and colleges, are charged with Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity). The investigation established that in 2007 the suspects united in the White Legion group and regularly carried out neo-Nazi raids in the city.

On January 15, access was opened to the Seraphim chapel of the Trinity Cathedral in Pskov, the iconostasis of which, designed and painted by the famous icon painter Archimandrite Zinon (Theodor), was under restoration. Art critics and the public expressed concern that the restoration was being carried out with numerous violations, and unique icons were being repainted with oil paints. The diocese denied this information.

A group of Orthodox activists who applied to the prefecture of the Central Administrative District of Moscow with an application to hold a picket against the possible autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate were not given permission to hold the action. The refusal was motivated by the fact that the application was incorrectly executed. In an informal conversation, employees of the prefecture referred to a letter they received from the Moscow Patriarchate.