On December 4, 2009, the prosecutor's office of the Babushkinsky district of Moscow charged Nikolai Avdyushenkov under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (participation in the activities of an extremist organization). Avdyushenkov is accused of putting up leaflets with "extremist content" on March 9, 2009.

Data have been received on the choice of parents and schoolchildren regarding the course “Fundamentals of Religious Cultures and Secular Ethics” from several regions of Russia. In Karachay-Cherkessia, 1/3 of the population (Russians) chose the defense industry, the rest chose the foundations of Islamic culture. In the Tambov region, out of 4,600 families, 55% chose the defense industry, 37% - secular ethics, 7% - world religions.

On December 7, at a meeting of the interdepartmental coordinating council for the implementation of the action plan as part of the experiment on teaching “Fundamentals of Religious Cultures and Secular Ethics,” the structure of the training course was approved.

In early December 2009, a Nazi swastika appeared on the wall of a residential building in Petrozavodsk. in the city before Neo-Nazi symbols have repeatedly appeared . Information provided by the Karelian branch of the "Youth Human Rights Group"

On December 8, 2009, it became known that the Crimean Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office (Krasnodar Territory) made a presentation to the head of a secondary school, on the walls of which unknown people wrote "Russia for Russians" in red paint and drew a fascist swastika. On November 20, 2008, one of the residents of Krymsk informed the employees of the prosecutor's office about the appearance on the walls of school No. 3 on the street. Sverdlov of inscriptions "inciting ethnic hatred" .

The Sociological Center of the Armed Forces conducted a study according to which currently more than 70% of army and navy personnel consider themselves believers. 80% of believers consider themselves Orthodox, about 13% are Muslims, about 3% are Buddhists, 4% are adherents of other beliefs. Currently, about two thousand clergy of the Russian Church carry out pastoral work in military units of the army and navy.

On December 9, 2009, it became known that the Khanty-Mansiysk inter-district prosecutor's office (Ugra) made representations to the heads of schools and the KhMAO-Yugra state educational institution for orphans and children left without parental care "Rainbow Orphanage". The inter-district prosecutor also filed a lawsuit to the Khanty-Mansiysk branch of telecommunications of OJSC "Uralsvyazinform" on imposing the obligation to restrict access to information.

Sociological services of 20 different countries, commissioned by the University of Maryland in the United States, conducted a survey.

On December 1, 2009, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation introduced the position of assistant commander of a military unit for work with believers. The head of the department of patriotic education and work with public associations of the Main Directorate of Educational Work of the Armed Forces, Colonel Igor Sergienko, said that clergy will be appointed to this position as civilian personnel.

The Sovetsky District Court of the city of Lipetsk satisfied the claims of the Prosecutor of the Sovetsky District on the recognition of extremist materials from the Internet sites "Combat 18 Adolf Hitler's combat group" and "Break the System's Big Game". On December 8, 2009, the court decision entered into force. These materials contain "calls for hostile action based on racial and religious animosity" and were made available to all netizens.

On December 4, 2009, the Solnechnogorsk District Court arrested 31-year-old businessman Murat Amerkhanov, the alleged instigator of a mass brawl in Solnechnogorsk on November 3, 2008. Police officers “believe that it was Murat Amerkhanov who provoked the clash based on interethnic hostility, and also personally caused serious harm to health.” M. Amerkhanov and his brother, 20-year-old unemployed Yunus Amerkhanov, were detained the day before by riot police.