On December 27, 2010, a meeting was held in the Cathedral of Christ Patriarch Kirill with general directors and chief editors of a number of Russian media. The Patriarch expressed hope that the interaction between the ROC and the media will continue Recall that the development relationship between church media and the secular journalistic community was approved by the past Synod (magazine No. 140).

In December 2010, the investigating authorities of the Arkhangelsk region and the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, a criminal case was initiated on inciting ethnic hatred (part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) against a 28-year-old Mikhail Osipov and 24-year-old Kirill Zhukov. M.

On December 27, 2010, a verdict was passed in St. Petersburg in the case of a local group of Nazi skinheads. There were five in the dock young people: 23-year-old Alexander Osipov, 20-year-old Alexei Kuzmin, 20-year-old Vladimir Kosyakov, 22-year-old Sergey Usanov and 28-year-old Boris Andreev , who, among other things, were accused of committing a racist attack on a citizen India in September 2006. Recall that the group included two more young people: Oshchepkov and Baranov.

December 27, 2010 in Chisty lane took place meeting of Patriarch Kirill with deputies of the State Duma, members of the committee on youth affairs and the committee on information policy and communication. At the meeting, the patriarch stressed that Russian society is “de-ideologized,” but the Church has no the ability to influence people the way the media does. That is why important is the cooperation of the Church with political forces, including those represented in the Duma.

10 and on December 13, 2010, the Novgorod regional television broadcast two stories, directed against the Church of Evangelical Christian Baptists (authors - Robert Frantsev, Andrey Konstantinov, Maxim Lebedev). In one of the films, the elder presbyter Anatoly Korabel is accused of excommunicating one of the parishioners for marrying an unbeliever. Commenting on the plot the presbyter noted that the people mentioned in the film are not parishioners of the Church for several years.

On December 24, 2010, the first meeting of the commission on interaction between the Russian Orthodox Church and the museum community was held at the Ministry of Culture. The meeting was attended by representatives of the Ministry of Culture, heads of Moscow museums (the Historical Museum, the Moscow Kremlin museums, the Tretyakov Gallery, the A. Rublev Museum of Ancient Russian Culture), Russian representatives of the International Museum Committee, and famous art historians.

In December 2010 in Naberezhnye Chelny (Republic of Tatarstan) completed the investigation into the case of initiating a national hatred (part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Four will soon be in the dock young people (30-year-old Ruslan Ibatov (“Heinrich Himmler”), 19-year-old Alexei Borisov, 21-year-old Anton Tkachev and 17-year-old college student), who are accused of distributing city ​​of anti-Semitic and anti-state leaflets in October this year.

On December 23, 2010, the Sverdlovsk Regional Court was to consider the cassation representation of the prosecutor's office of the Kirovsky district of Yekaterinburg on the decision of the Kirovsky district court on the non-recognition of a number of texts by Eduard as extremist materials Limonov and Zakhara Prilepin. However, the hearing did not take place, as the day before The prosecutor's office withdrew its submission. Thus, the decision of the Kirov Court entered into force.

December 20, 2010 in Kazan, members of the Communist Party Alexander Kiselev and Lenar Gafiatullin were charged under Art. 282.2 (to the first - under part 1 - organization of prohibited activities organization, the second - under Part 2 - participation in the activities of a prohibited organization). They were both assigned a measure of restraint in the form of a subscription to recognizance.

December 25 and 26 in Cherepovets and Kazan, respectively, by local centers for combating extremism, two anti-fascist concert. In Cherepovets, police officers broke into the hall where concert of the anti-fascist group Klowns, about 50 people were detained, their fingerprints were taken. In Kazan, the police demanded the abolition of the anti-fascist event and providing information about its participants.