On January 12, 2010, it became known that a group of young people were detained in the Volgograd region, suspected of setting fire to a prayer house of Evangelical Christians-Baptists and the office of the Kingdom of Jehovah's Witnesses, committed in Volzhsky (Volgograd region) on January 1, 2010. According to other sources, only one person was detained. There is no evidence yet that the detainee was involved in the arson.

On the night of January 1, 2010, in Kosmodemyanskoye (a village that is part of Kaliningrad), two Nazi skinheads (16 and 18 years old) killed 19-year-old local resident Sergei B. The victim was hit on the head with iron fittings, knocked down and kicked with their feet, shod in high boots - "hagens" with thick soles and metal fittings. The body of the deceased was discovered by a local resident near one of the boxes of the Lesnoye garage society along Magnitogorskaya Street.

On January 12, it became known that a group of young people suspected of setting fire to a prayer house of Evangelical Christian Baptists and the office of the Kingdom of Jehovah's Witnesses organization had been detained in the Volgograd Region. Arson was committed on the night of January 1 in the city of Volzhsky. On the fact of arson, a criminal case was initiated under Part 2 of Article 167 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (deliberate destruction, damage to property).

On January 11, Akhmed Ibragimov, deputy imam of one of the mosques, was killed in Dagestan. The body of A. Ibragimov was found on Kartmasov Street in Kizlyar. Recall that this is not the first murder of a Muslim religious figure in Dagestan. Sources Religious figure killed in Dagestan // Interfax-religion. 2010. January 12. *

In December 2009, an interregional conference "Alexander Nevsky - the name of Russia" was held in St. Petersburg. Its participants adopted an appeal, which at the beginning of January 2010 was sent to the President of the Russian Federation, the Prime Minister and the Governor of St. Petersburg.

was once again updated on the website of the Russian Ministry of Justice On January 12, 2010 , the Federal List of Extremist Materials . Nos. 468-470 were included in it. Update of the federal list of extremist materials The book "The ABC of "Domestic Terrorism" (decision of the Central Court of the city of Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo Region of 08/07/2009). Brochure "The Russian Orthodox Church and the Modern Pre-Tichrist Era.

In 2009, a number of acts of vandalism were committed against the buildings of Jehovah's Witnesses. On April 8, in Pereslavl-Zalessky, Yaroslavl Region, an attack was made on a private house where a Jehovah's Witness lives. Glass was broken in the house. On April 22, 2009, in Teikovo, Ivanovo Region, three unidentified men tore down the fence adjacent to the Kingdom Hall from the side of the street.

In 2009, acts of motivated vandalism against the buildings of the Jehovah's Witnesses religious association were recorded in various cities of Russia. On the night of August 9, 2009, in Millerovo (Rostov Region) there was an attack on a private house where one of the parishioners, a disabled woman, lives, and meetings of Jehovah's Witnesses are held. The intruders poured water on the outside and inside of the house and left offensive inscriptions on the fence.