On May 20, 2009, it became known that an FSB officer, introducing himself as Andrei Alekseevich Fedorov, summoned Moscow State University student Alexander Savelyev, an activist of the Defense and Solidarity movements, for a conversation. During the conversation, an employee of the department told the student that the center for combating extremism had become interested in his political activities.

On May 22, the 2nd Inter-Orthodox Conference on the problems of confronting "totalitarian sectarianism" was held in St. Petersburg. It was attended by 40 people - representatives of the "anti-sectarian" centers of the Russian, Cypriot, Greek, Bulgarian, Serbian, Romanian and Czech Orthodox churches. As a result of the meeting, a working drafting group was established.

The administration of Vladivostok refuses to renew the agreement with the St. Eusebius parish of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad on the free use of the St. Eusebius Cathedral, which is in municipal ownership. The community received a warning about termination of the contract in December 2008.

May 22, 2009 in Georgievsk (Stavropol region) a group of racists organized a "raid to intimidate non-Slavs", as a result which injured at least one person. 11 people took part in the “raid, four of them who had already committed by that time a number of crimes that did not have a racist motive.

On May 21, 2009, three supporters of the Russian National Unity (RNU) movement were detained in the Nizhny Novgorod region, suspected of the brutal murder of a citizen of Uzbekistan. The detainees confessed to the murder and stated that it was committed based on national hatred. All three are suspected under Part 2 of Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder committed based on national hatred). On March 31, 2010, the case was sent to court.

On May 21, the director of the Kaliningrad Cathedral Museum, Igor Odintsov, told reporters about claims to this 14th-century monument by the Russian Orthodox Church. In addition to the cathedral, the Church is seeking the transfer of ownership of two more cultural monuments of federal significance - the Kaliningrad Regional Philharmonic (formerly the Church of the Holy Family) and the Kaliningrad Puppet Theater (formerly the Church of Queen Louise).

On May 22, 2009, in Irkutsk, Nazi skinheads attacked young people, cyclists. Two incidents are reported on the same day. In the first case, skinheads (about 7 people) approached a group of cyclists who had gathered on the embankment of the Angara River near the monument to Alexander III and asked, "Is there Antifa?" and, without waiting for an answer, began to beat the young people. Cyclists began to unscrew chairs and wheels from bicycles to defend themselves.

May 22, 2009 in Irkutsk Near the restaurant "Kyoto" a group of Nazi skinheads (I. Ashikhmin, S. Andreev, S. Titkov, A. Kostin, M. Klyavoi), shouting nationalist slogans, attacked a group of young people who were mistaken for anti-fascists and beat them. This became known from the news about the verdict passed on one of the attackers .

In mid-May, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the division of 108 architectural monuments of St. Petersburg between the city government and the government of the Russian Federation. 58 objects were transferred to the federal center, 50 - to the ownership of St. Petersburg (including most of the Peter and Paul Fortress and the Smolny Monastery). 13 religious sites remain controversial, including St. Isaac's Cathedral and the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood.

In early May, representatives of the Saratov Church of Evangelical Christians "Word of Life" applied to the prosecutor's office with a statement about the incitement of religious hatred by the head of the local branch of the Center for Religious Studies Alexander Kuzmin.

On May 20, 2009, in Moscow, in the Dorogomilovsky court, a hearing began on the case of seven natives of Azerbaijan, students of the law faculty of the Academy of the Ministry of Justice of Russia, who wounded two Muscovites in the metro car of the capital's subway - a schoolboy Pavel Novitsky and a student Fyodor Markov.

On May 21, 2009, it became known that the preliminary investigation into the criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 (incitement of social hatred) against the activist of the Defense movement Dmitry Solovyov has been completed. The case has been sent to the prosecutor's office for approval of the indictment. Let us remind you that a case was brought against the blogger over several entries in his LiveJournal, in which he spoke critically about the work of the police and the FSB.

The prosecutor's office of the Kirovsky district of Yekaterinburg filed a lawsuit against the chairman of the parish council of the church in the name of the Nativity of Christ, Elena Shevchenko. The prosecutor's office demands that she be held administratively liable for the illegal construction of a Sunday school. During the prosecutor's check, it was found that the construction was started without permits: the initiators of the work referred only to the blessing of the ruling bishop.

On May 9, 2009, in the Nizhny Novgorod region, Gennady Du, a citizen of Uzbekistan, was killed on the railway tracks of the Gorky Railway near the Balakhna station. (It was previously reported that the person killed was a Korean citizen). The body of the deceased had 46 stab wounds to the chest on the right, an open craniocerebral injury, and blunt trauma to the abdomen.