February 4, 2011 Central District Court of Novokuznetsk delivered a verdict in the case of a racist attack on a native of Azerbaijan. In the dock was 16-year-old Sergei P., whom accused of intentionally inflicting grievous bodily harm on the grounds of national hatred and out of hooligan motives (paragraphs "d, f" part 2 of article 111 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The court found the teenager guilty and sentenced to 2 years and 4 months of educational colony.

On February 4, 2011, the Public Foundation "Zdravomyslie" placed new billboards on the streets of Moscow - this time with statements by Charles Darwin.

On February 7, 2011, it became known about the response of the deputy head of the Moscow Property Department Valery Anuprienko to the appeal of the parishioners of the Church of St. John the Theologian regarding the building transferred to the parish, but still occupied by the Museum of Moscow.

February 4, 2011 Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox church approved the document " Attitude of the Russian Orthodox Church to deliberate public blasphemy and slander against Churches". The document substantiates the need to legislate the punishment for blasphemy and slander in the address of the Church and its ministers.

On February 3, 2011, the Moscow Regional Court delivered a verdict in the case of murders in the village of Mendeleevo, Solnechnogorsk district. Recall that there were four men in the dock: 30-year-old Maxim Malyshkin, 32-year-old Alexander Abramov, 36-year-old Nikolai Anisimov and 30-year-old Roman Orlov, who was accused of three brutal murders ( a native of Azerbaijan , a visitor from Georgia and a 22-year-old local resident), robberies and thefts.

On February 5, 2011, an anti-clerical rally was held in Tyumen, which was attended by more than 50 people. The organizer was the Union militant atheists. Protesters opposed the transfer Tyumen Diocese of the building of the sports school N 2 and the transfer of religious disciplines in general education schools. The rally was attended by representatives of the Russian Communist Workers' Party (RKRP).

In early February, it became known about an act of vandalism in Arkhangelsk. Members of the Pomeranian pagan community on the eve of Veles Day (February 11) decided put in order the site on the embankment near the nautical school (the place used by local pagans for celebration) and found that wooden sculptures of pagan gods uprooted and chopped.

On February 5, 2011, a native of Kabardino-Balkaria. The body of a 21-year-old a person was found in the evening on Ligovsky Prospekt near the house 47. According to preliminary data, the victim died from multiple stab wounds. No robbery was reported. A criminal case has been initiated under Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Sources A visitor from the North Caucasus was stabbed to death in Ligovka // Specifically.ru. 2011. February 7.

On January 25, 2011, employees of the Ryazan Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve “Ryazan Kremlin” received from the Federal Property Management Agency an act on the removal from the operational management of the museum of the Archangel Cathedral of the 15th-17th centuries. According to ReligioPolis, this document was not signed by the director of the museum, Olga Krechetova, until February 4.

In February 2011, a criminal case was initiated in Kurgan according to part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting national hatred) against a 19-year-old local resident. The young man is suspected of writing on the walls of one of the general education schools with xenophobic slogans. The inscriptions were made with paint from aerosol can.