At the beginning of February 2009 in Barnaul, within the framework of the project "Effective social technologies for the prevention of interethnic conflicts and extremism through the creation of centers of ethnic and social tolerance", the festival "School of Peace" was held. The organizer of the festival was the ARPO "Women's Business Center" Etoile ".

On February 11, speaking at a meeting of employees of the Chechen Muftiate and kadiy of all districts, the republic, the first deputy mufti of Chechnya, Valid Kuruev, complained about the insufficient material assistance to the imams from the heads of district administrations. The president of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, was obliged to provide the imams with monthly material assistance to the heads of administrations.

In Kaluga, the conflict that began in 2006 over the building of the Church of Evangelical Christians "Word of Life" continues. During a meeting of the regional government on February 9, Governor Anatoly Artamonov instructed Vice Governor Maxim Akimov to seize the church's land "by any means." At the same time, the Kaluga Pentecostals were called the "Swedish Church". The order became known due to the fact that the meeting was broadcast on the website of the regional administration.

Dozens of semi-underground extremist groups operate in the Stavropol Territory. This was discussed on February 12, 2009 at the first meeting of the socio-political council under the governor of the region.

The Muslim community of Novocheboksarsk (Chuvashia) appealed to President D. Medvedev and Prime Minister V. Putin in connection with the situation around the construction of a mosque in the city. At the end of 2008, the city administration took away the land allocated in 2007 from the Muslims.

In early February, the Office of the Federal Drug Control Service for the Saratov region entered into a cooperation agreement with the Saratov regional branch of the Center for Religious Studies, which specializes in the study of new religious movements.

On February 12, 2009, the head of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta, said that Moscow was the leader in terms of the number of extremist crimes. "In short, Moscow holds the lead in such painful crimes for the country as extremism," the head of the UPC RF said. According to him, in 2008 93 such crimes were committed in Moscow, and 19 extremist crimes were registered in St.

An act of vandalism was committed at a rural cemetery in the Kalininsky District of the Krasnodar Territory. Unknown people destroyed 24 tombstones: on some, monuments were shifted and knocked down, while others were mechanically damaged. In addition, vandals pulled out of the ground and damaged 7 crosses. The destruction was discovered by visitors to the cemetery from 8 to 10 February.

The Spiritual Administration of the Muslims of Tatarstan sent to the leadership of the higher Muslim madrasahs "Muhammadiya" and madrasahs named after him. of Extremist Materials be excluded from the programs of these educational institutions On the occasion of the 1000th anniversary of the adoption of Islam, a letter demanding that books included in the Federal List . The madrasas claim that they have never used forbidden literature.

On February 11, 2008, the presentation of the SOVA Center's annual report "Radical Nationalism in Russia and Opposition to It in 2008" was held at the Independent Press Center . The presentation was attended by the author of the report, Deputy Director of the SOVA Center Galina Kozhevnikova and a member of the Coordinating Council of the Youth Human Rights Movement Dmitry Makarov.

In February 2009, it became known that the prosecutor's office of the Krasnoarmeisky district of Volgograd had checked anti-fascist graffiti for extremism, considering it to be propaganda and a public demonstration of Nazi symbols. In addition to the swastika itself, the graffiti contained the words "No to fascism" and "ANTIFA".