In mid-December, three suspects were detained in the murder of the deputy chairman of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Karachay-Cherkessia and Stavropol Ismail Bostanov: the head of the Nizhne-Teberda rural municipality and two unemployed residents of Karachay-Cherkessia, 23 and 27 years old. A machine gun was seized from one of the detainees.

On December 16, Gulnara Rustamova, a resident of Makhachkala, applied to the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation with a request to check the law "On the prohibition of Wahhabi and other extremist activities on the territory of the Republic of Dagestan" for compliance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation (adopted by the People's Assembly of the Republic of Dagestan September 16, 1999) and raise the issue of abolishing it in the part that contradicts the Constitution

On December 16, the Dagestan regional public organization "Mothers of Dagestan for Human Rights" sent a statement to the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, to the Public Chamber of Dagestan, to the Ombudsman for Human Rights in the Republic of Dagestan and to several human rights organizations, a statement from Rizvan Abusupyanov, whose daughter Patimat is not allowed to attend an educational institution in hijab.

On December 17, 2009, it became known that in the Irkutsk region, criminal cases against five Nazi skinheads detained for beating passersby motivated by ideological hatred were combined into one proceeding. Two of this group have already been charged in connection with the attack on an ecological camp near Angarsk, which resulted in the death of anti-fascist Ilya Borodaenko. The new case concerns attacks in Irkutsk, when neo-Nazis attacked cyclists and skateboarders several times during the day.

In December, it became known that on November 12, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' turned to Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov with a request to transfer the Vysoko-Petrovsky Monastery complex to the ownership of the Russian Orthodox Church. On the territory of the monastery, where monastic life has been resumed since September 2009, there are the State Literary Museum and speech therapy kindergarten No. 878.

On December 18, 2009, it became known that in Nefteyugansk (Yugra) the prosecutor's office filed a lawsuit with a demand to oblige the provider OJSC Uralsvyazinform to restrict access to " extremist Internet sites" and "sites prohibited by law" . In the course of a prosecutor's check in educational institutions, facts of students' access to sites containing signs of extremism were revealed.

Secretary of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation Evgeny Velikhov sent a letter to State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov with a proposal to legislatively “reconsider the attitude towards museum objects of religious significance, give them a special status, and legally define the transfer procedure - both for permanent and temporary storage.” The author of the letter proposes to make changes to the federal law “On the Museum Fund and Museums of the Russian Federation” dated April 24, 1994,

The rector of the All Saints Church in Ulyanovsk, Archpriest Alexy Skala, made an open appeal to the Governor of the Ulyanovsk Region, Sergei Morozov. The priest asks to cancel the decision to build a mosque next to an Orthodox church. According to him, the All Saints Church is already operating at the proposed construction site, the Spaso-Ascension Cathedral is being built nearby, a chapel is located nearby on the site of the former grave of St.

On December 18, 2009, it became known that Roskomnadzor in the Irkutsk region issued an official written warning to the Angarsk newspaper Vremya for disseminating information with signs of extremism. In October, the newspaper "Vremya" published a series of materials on the work of the Angarsk motor transport enterprise OJSC "Avtokolonna 1948". The articles were devoted to the topic of the loss of jobs by local drivers, instead of which citizens of Uzbekistan began to be hired more often.