In January 2009, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation published on its website a decision on the complaint of the Union of Right Forces (SPS) party against the refusal to invalidate the results of the State Duma elections held on December 2, 2007. The main subject of the SPS complaint and judicial review is the illegal seizure of the party's campaign materials during the elections to the State Duma. In total, 36 million items were seized - from stickers to newspapers.

On December 30, 2008, the Magistrate's Court of the Sovetsky District of Astrakhan sentenced Yury Kosov, Acting Editor-in-Chief of the Fakt i Kompromat newspaper, to a fine of two thousand rubles for an administrative offense under Art. 13.15 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (abuse of freedom of the mass media). In addition, the regional prosecutor's office submitted to Kosovo a proposal to eliminate violations of the law on countering extremism.

On January 21, 2009, in Nizhny Novgorod on Timiryazev Street, a 19-year-old citizen of Zambia, a student at the City University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (NGASU), was beaten up. The young man was hospitalized with a concussion. No robbery reported. Checking in progress. Sources Olga Petrova. Student from Zambia beaten up in Nizhny Novgorod // AiF - Nizhny Novgorod.Ru. 2009. January 22.

In January 2009, the Runet Council of Atheists appealed to the State Duma of the Russian Federation with a proposal to exclude from Art.

The Ministry for National Policy and Relations with Religious Associations of the Republic of Karelia will assist the local Orthodox diocese in restoring five churches that are monuments of cultural heritage. We are talking about the Exaltation of the Cross Cathedral in Petrozavodsk, the Nikolsky Church in Sortavala, the Church of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God in Olonets, the Cathedral of the Annunciation in Kem and the Church of the Holy Trinity in Konchezero.

The administration of the secondary school in the village of Troitskoye, Mozdok district, apologized to the teacher of Russian language and literature, Tatyana Fedorova. Earlier, the teacher complained to the mufti of North Ossetia about discrimination caused by the fact that she wears a hijab.

On January 23, the St. Nicholas Church on Butyrsky Val in Moscow was desecrated. The headman of the temple complained to the police that two hooligans smeared the wall with excrement. Sources Orthodox church desecrated in Moscow // Interfax-religion. 2009. January 23.

On December 20, 2008 in Moscow on Yasnogorskaya street near house 2, a group of young people attacked a citizen of Kyrgyzstan. The man received multiple injuries from sticks and beer bottles and died on the spot. This became known from the news about the detention of a group of young people suspected of the attack. Sources Suspects in the murder of a Kyrgyz detained in Moscow // Vzglyad.Ru. 2009. January 23.

On January 20, 2009, it became known that the world court of the Pervomaisky district of Izhevsk (Udmurt Republic) brought to administrative responsibility a city dweller who traded in items with Nazi symbols. The audit established that on October 25, 2008, in the "Army Souvenirs" department of the "World of Porcelain" store (Vadim Sivkov Street, 109), an individual entrepreneur Mikhail Kovalev, born in 1959, sold commission goods, among which were items with Nazi symbols and Nazi paraphernalia.

On January 22, in Naberezhnye Chelny, the trial of the chairman of the Tatar Public Center (TOC) Rafis Kashapov, accused under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity). According to the prosecutor's office, R.

In January 2009, seven Nazi skinheads attacked 29-year-old Georgian citizen Artur Vardanyan at the Seven Keys tram stop in Yekaterinburg. Shouting "Russia for the Russians!" The teenagers knocked Vardanyan to the ground and for several minutes severely kicked him in heavy boots. One of the attackers, a 15-year-old boy, stabbed Vardanyan. The young people fled, taking away the victim's mobile phone.

of the Sretensky temple in Ryazan were detained Suspects of arson . The militia has detained two young men who were engaged in thefts. During the investigation, it turned out that they were involved in the arson of the church. The detainees admitted that in early December they were returning home with a tipsy company, and someone wanted to see how the wooden building would burn. One of them poured gasoline from the nearby Zhiguli and poured it over the wall of the temple.

On January 22, 2009, three young people were detained in Moscow, suspected of attacking a citizen of Kyrgyzstan in December 2008, as a result of which the man died. All the detainees are residents of the Yasenevo district. The investigation is checking their involvement in other nationalist attacks. Sources Suspects in the murder of a Kyrgyz detained in Moscow // Vzglyad.Ru. 2009. January 23.

On January 22, 2009, in Novosibirsk, during an action dedicated to the memory of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova , killed on January 19, 2008, seven Nazi skinheads attacked anti-fascists. About 15-20 anti-fascists took part in the memorial action. Young people with flags walked from the House of Officers along Krasny Prospekt towards Lenin Square, chanting “Nastya should have lived! Stas should have lived!”, “We will not forget!

On January 23, 2009, it became known that in the Leninsky district of Vladivostok a criminal case had been opened under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity) against the leader of the local branch of the "Union of Slavs" Alexander Komarov.