On January 19, 2011, the Ministry of Education of the Penza Region reported data on the number of students enrolled in the course “Fundamentals of Religious Cultures and Secular Ethics.” In 2011, teaching the course began in 578 schools in the region, with 10,247 students taking part in the experiment .

January 18, 2011 resident Petrozavodsk Maxim Efimov filed an application with the Supreme Court of the Republic of Karelia with a request to recognize void Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan " On the introduction of amendments to the law of the Republic of Karelia "On the budget of the Republic of Kazakhstan for 2010 and the planned period of 2011 and 2012” as contrary to federal legislation. Clause 7.1.

On January 18, 2011, Ilya Novozhilov, Head of the Department Yekaterinburg Diocese for Cooperation with the Armed Forces, with Boris Lukichev, head of the department for work with religious servicemen of the Main Directorate for work with the personnel of the armed forces of the Russian Federation. The meeting discussed the issue of interaction between military command and control bodies Russian Orthodox Church. B. Lukichev informed I.

On January 20, 2011, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation commuted the punishment of two of the neo-Nazi Rodnovers, convicted in October 2010 for a series of murders, assassination attempts and bombings. Stanislav Lukhmyrin was acquitted of the charge under Article 115 (causing a light harm to health) due to the expiration of the statute of limitations and reduced punishment by one year. He's sentenced to 20 years strict regime colonies.

January 19, 2011 judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation left without changes sentence in a criminal case in relation to 6 natives of the Caucasus, accused of involvement in the murder of 2 residents of Kondopoga during the mass fights in the restaurant "Chaika" in August 2006, which provoked unrest in the city. The verdict came into force.

21 January 2011, the Moscow Regional Court delivered a verdict 22-year-old Maxim Kobzev and 23-year-old Ivan Pakhnutov in the case about the murder of a citizen of Kyrgyzstan on November 2, 2009. M. Kobzev and I. Pakhnutov were sentenced to 13 and 12 years in prison respectively with serving in a correctional colony of strict regime.

On January 19, 2011, the Investigative Directorate of the FSB of Russia charged the head of the All-Russian People's Militia named after Minin and Pozharsky (NOMP) Vladimir Kvachkov under Part 1 of Art. 30, art. 279 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (attempt to organize an armed rebellion) and Part 1 of Art. 205-1 (recruitment or involvement of persons in terrorist activities).

21 January 2011, the " Federal List of Extremist Materials " was again updated, which is published on the website of the Ministry of Justice of Russia. It has been added pp. 758-759. The list was supplemented by two anti-Caucasian videos.

On January 20, 2011, the Altai Regional Court upheld verdict on Barnaul oppositionist Dmitry Bychkov, previously recognized guilty of the activities of the NBP banned for extremism and illegal storage weapons. Recall that Bychkov was sentenced to 2 years and 3 months. suspended sentence under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 and part 1 of Art. 222 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. He was accused of distributing leaflets and possessing grenades.

January 16 2011, more than forty people gathered outside the Jehovah's Witnesses compound in Vyborgsky district of St. Petersburg. The picket participants, among whom were mainly Orthodox Christians, demanded members of the community to stop refusing to blood transfusions during treatment. Sources Lavrentyev P. In St. Petersburg, residents held an unsanctioned public gathering at the headquarters of Jehovah's Witnesses.

January 20, 2011 UPC RF for the Ryazan region reported that for the period of investigation the court removed from office editor-in-chief of the newspaper Vechernyaya Ryazan and director of the Publishing House "Central" Nikolai Kirillov. Earlier, the MMSO of the city of Ryazan, the Investigative Committee of the UPC RF for the Ryazan Region, filed before the court a petition for the temporary suspension of N. Kirilov.

On January 18, 2011, the "Rights in Russia" website published an English translation of an article with commentaries by the director of the SOVA Center Alexander Verkhovsky. The article dealt with actions in memory of Yegor Sviridov which took place in Moscow and St. Petersburg on January 15, 2011. It was originally posted on the Caucasian Knot website.

January 21, 2011 SU UPC RF for the Ulyanovsk region reported the initiation of a criminal case under paragraph "c" h.2 Art. 282 (inciting hatred committed by a group) and Part 1 of Art. 282.2 (organization activities of a prohibited religious association) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

As we became aware in mid-January 2011, Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow considering the claim of the Church of Scientology Moscow to the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, back in October 2010 issued a ruling on the obligation of the Ministry before the end of the proceedings to remove from the Federal list of extremist materials of 29 titles of books by Ron Hubbard.

As it became known in January 2011, on December 9, 2010 Surgut city ​​court, when re -examining the claim of the prosecutor's office for recognition extremist materials of Scientologists returned the complaint to the prosecutor, leaving it without consideration. Recall that earlier the Surgut court recognized Hubbard's books as extremist. Then this decision was canceled by the Khanty-Mansiysk District Court and remanded for retrial.