On February 22, 2009, at about 18:00 in St. Petersburg on Vasilyevsky Island, a 23-year-old citizen of Benin, a student of the St. Petersburg University of Telecommunications named after prof. M.A. Bonch-Bruevich. The student was attacked by three young people on Korablestroiteley Street, next to the dormitory of St. Petersburg State University. A citizen of Benin was hospitalized with a closed craniocerebral injury. His front teeth were knocked out and his left knee was injured.

The Orthodox Family Center "Rozhdestvo" was asked to vacate its premises in Khamovniki by March 1. According to the president of the club, Elena Davydenko, the club has been using the premises for two years under a social contract. In the Year of the Child and the Year of the Family, the club's program was recognized as one of the best.

Specialists of the Federal Security Service of the Sverdlovsk region have completed an examination of the literature of Jehovah's Witnesses. Five examinations were conducted, according to the results of which the materials of the magazines The Watchtower, Awake, and Draw Close to Jehovah were recognized as extremist.

In mid-February 2009, an attack on the natives of Armenia took place in Novosibirsk. According to one of the victims, Anton Sargsyan, the attackers "just asked one question: who is by nationality? Simply: Armenians? And they started beating everyone. They beat everyone, put them on the floor. First they strangled ..." . The attackers severely beat the natives of Armenia, robbed them and fled the scene. One of the victims died in hospital from his injuries.

The Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation is preparing a bill on the transfer of ownership to all religious denominations registered in the country of buildings and lands that are currently in their use. The document proposes to transfer to the Church property that is now in its free, perpetual use: religious buildings with land plots, movable property. The bill provides for some restrictions for religious organizations in the use of property.

On February 24, 2009, the City Court of St. Petersburg overturned the decision of the Dzerzhinsky District Court declaring the search at the Memorial Research Center illegal. The case was returned for retrial to the district court. The basis for this decision was that during the search, the SKP investigator who conducted the search did not check the credentials of lawyer Joseph Gabunia, who was trying to get into the searched office as a representative of the interests of Memorial.

Im Januar 2009 wurden nicht weniger als 39 rassistische Übergriffe verübt, infolge derer 14 Menschen starben. (Im Januar 2008 gab es nicht weniger als 59 Angriffe auf Menschen, wobei 15 Personen starben.) Wie zuvor, bilden die Hauptzentren der Gewalt die Moskauer (10 Tote, 15 Verletzte) und die Petersburger (2 Tote, 7 Verletzte) Region. Außerdem kam es zu Angriffen in Jekaterinburg, Nishnij Nowgorod, Nowosibirsk, Rjasan und Uljanowsk.

On February 24, 2009, to the Federal List of Extremist Materials on the website of the Ministry of Justice. was added the previously omitted paragraph 316 Update of the Federal List of Extremist Materials. Item 316. Weekly Aseev Vissarion Vladimirovich "People of Beslan" N 1. Recognized as extremist by the decision of the Pravoberezhny District Court of North Ossetia-Alania dated 08/06/2008.

On February 24, 2009, in Makhachkala, the Investigative Committee of the RF Investigative Committee for Dagestan filed charges under Part 2 of Art. 282 (incitement of hatred through official position) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation to the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Chernovik" Nadira Isayeva. On February 26, charges were brought against three more journalists of the newspaper: Magomed Magomedov, Timur Mustafayev and Biyakai Magomedov are accused of violating Part 1 of Art.

On February 22, 2009, an anti-fascist rally was held on Kirov Square in Petrozavodsk. The participants expressed indignation at the vigorous activity of neo-Nazi associations in the country, as well as at the increasing cases of attacks motivated by ethnic hatred in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The event was attended by about 20 people, mostly elderly citizens.

The Russian Orthodox Church believes that the editors of Novaya Gazeta should apologize for the December 8 article containing "false information about Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus'." Bishop Mark of Yegoryevsky sent a letter to the editors of Novaya Gazeta.

On February 20, 2009, a medical examination of the health of the leader of the Movement Against Illegal Immigration (DPNI), Alexander Belov, declared him sane. However, the leader of the DPNI intends to challenge the examination procedure. "A medical examination found me sane. However, I want to challenge it, because it was carried out without the documents that are required according to the instructions ," Belov said.