On February 11, at a meeting of the government of St. Petersburg, it was decided to cut funding for some construction programs. Among them was the construction of "Gazprom City" ("Okhta Center"), which provoked protests from the public, including the Orthodox. Opponents of the construction were outraged that the 400-meter tower of Gazprom was supposed to surpass the Peter and Paul Fortress Cathedral and St. Isaac's Cathedral in height and destroy the historical appearance of the city.

Bishop of Evangelical Christians-Baptists in the Smolensk region, Viktor Ignatenkov, addressed the regional prosecutor's office with a statement about the materials distributed during the campaign for the election of the mayor of Smolensk.

During the campaign for the election of the mayor of Smolensk, the newspaper "Special issue of the Russian Union of Evangelical Christian Baptists (ECB) for Smolensk" was distributed, which said that the Union supported one of the candidates - Sergei Maslakov.

On February 13, 2009, at a press conference in Yerevan, Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika touched upon the issue of combating xenophobia in Russia. According to the Prosecutor General, there is an increase in xenophobic crime in Russia. “As for the adequacy of punishment measures, I think there is something to think about. Unfortunately, jury courts sometimes qualify articles on inciting ethnic hatred as less dangerous crimes.

Russian human rights activists appealed to President Dmitry Medvedev in connection with the decision of the Arbitration Court of the Vladimir Region to seize 13 churches in Suzdal from the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (ROAC) in favor of the state.

On October 16, 2008, the Vladimir Arbitration Court satisfied the claim of the territorial department of the Federal Property Management Agency against the Center for Choral Music (TSKhM) of Vladimir-Suzdal Rus' and ordered the defendant to vacate the premises of St. George's Church in Vladimir. The center occupied one of the aisles of the temple.

The European Court of Human Rights upheld the claim of Unification Church missionary Patrick Nolan against Russia. On February 12, the court found that the ban on Nolan's entry into Russia violated several articles of the European Convention on Human Rights, including Article 9 (freedom of religion). P. Nolan lived in Russia for 8 years, after which in 2002 the Russian authorities banned him from re-entry, citing this as a threat to the country's security.

In 2005, the Moscow Charitable Foundation made 14 statues of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and proposed to install them in the border regions of Russia. In May 2005, the then governor of the Kaliningrad region, Vladimir Yegorov, agreed to install such a monument in the city. However, it has not yet been installed.