On January 21, 2009, the head of the Moscow police department, Vladimir Pronin, at a reporting press conference dedicated to the results of 2008, also touched upon the issue of hate crimes. According to him, the number of such crimes has tripled compared to 2007 (by 300%): in 2008, the Moscow police department registered 47 murders and 46 cases of grievous bodily harm, in which a hate motive is suspected.

In Birobidzhan, on the facades of several houses located on the street. Parkovaya, a swastika and anti-Semitic inscriptions appeared. This was reported on January 21, 2009 at the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Jewish Autonomous Region. One of these inscriptions shows the word "skinhead". A search is underway for the authors of the "graffiti". The suspects were detained. On June 18, was confirmed . the indictment in the case Sources Chernenko V.

The All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) published the data of the poll "What kind of patriarch does Russia need?" According to the data received, 28% of respondents believe that Metropolitan Kirill will become the new patriarch.

At the beginning of 2009, instructions for organizing anti-Caucasian/anti-Muslim provocations began to be actively disseminated in the ultra-right segment of the Russian-speaking Internet. Their essence boils down to the fact that neo-Nazis plant dummies of explosive devices, which are accompanied by texts allegedly written on behalf of Muslims or immigrants from the Caucasus.

As it became known on January 21, 2009, from a report on the report of the Rossvyazokhrankultura department for the Sverdlovsk region for 2008, the editors of the Ura.Ru website, which received two anti-extremist warnings in 2008, challenged the issuance of a second warning twice during the year, but to no avail.

On January 20, 2009, the Investigative Committee of the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia held a meeting, the central issue of which was the investigation into the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova on January 19, 2009. According to the press service of the SKP, in the case of a crime, which is currently classified under clause “a”, part 2 of Art.

On January 21, 2009, on the evening air of the program "24" (REN-TV), there was a story about a "national self-defense unit" organized by DPNI activists. Far-right activists, without fail trained in hand-to-hand combat skills and armed with traumatic weapons, walk the streets of the city and check the documents of people of non-Slavic appearance. Even in the presence of TV reporters, the patrol committed at least one illegal act: checking the documents of one of the non-Slavs they met.

The leadership of local law enforcement agencies opened a criminal case against the defrocked Bishop of Chukotka Diomede (Dzyuban) and a group of his supporters in Chukotka for illegal trafficking in precious metals. According to the police, the former Bishop Diomede and his supporters bought ingots of precious metals from the mines of the Shmidtovsky district and “turned them into religious jewelry,” hung labels on them and sold them in church shops.

On January 21, 2009, it became known that an anti-Semitic passage was found in Yevgenia Gerasimenko's brochure "Extremism: the concept, socio-economic, political and historical causes of the phenomenon, trends in its development. Lecture", published by the All-Russian Institute for Advanced Training of Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia . (Quote: "Satanism, like Hasidism, grew out of Judaism, its secret savage and Kabbalistic sects..." ).

The Novgorod prosecutor's office completed the investigation of the criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred committed in public) against a 22-year-old resident of the city of Evgenia S. On January 12, 2009, the case was sent to the Novgorod City Court for consideration on the merits.

A 22-year-old resident of Veliky Novgorod is accused of inciting ethnic and religious hatred. From October 2006 to May 2007, she posted on the Internet text files containing, according to the examination, "extremist appeals and statements aimed at inciting racial, ethnic and religious hatred, humiliation of national dignity, propaganda of exclusivity, superiority or inferiority of citizens according to on grounds of their racial, national or religious affiliation".

On January 19, 2009, speaking at the Collegium of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate in St. Petersburg, Vladislav Piotrovsky, the head of the department, reported on the fight against extremism in the past year and made some forecasts for the future. Piotrovsky noted the growth of extremist crimes and also stated: "The activities of human rights organizations are expected to be activated, through which foreign special services finance extremist activities .

On January 22, 2009, it became known that a wanted member of the local RNE, 24-year-old Anton Tabachkov, was arrested in Tver. He was charged with the murder of two people motivated by ethnic hatred. He was detained by law enforcement agencies in the Tver region on January 18, 2009.

with the Public Collegium for Press Complaints The centralized religious organization "Church of Evangelical Christians in Murman" filed a complaint against the newspaper "Arguments and Facts in Murman" . Members of the CCEE believe that on December 3, 2008, an article was published in the supplement of the newspaper, damaging both the business reputation of the church and the honor and dignity of its leaders and members.

On January 22, 2009, a criminal case was initiated in Kaliningrad under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of ethnic, racial or religious hatred) against 19-year-old local resident Alexander Fedorov, who from January to February 2008. made and posted nationalist leaflets on the street.