On August 1, 2011, it became known that a family was killed in their apartment in Tula - a 35-year-old woman, her mother and three children. The investigation is checking the connection of the eldest of those killed with religious organizations. However, the religious version of the murder is not the main one.

On August 3, 2011, the Novosibirsk District Court began considering the case of the head of the Shambhala Ashram organization, Konstantin Rudnev, accused under Art. 131 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (rape), Art. 132 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (violent acts of a sexual nature), Art. 228.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (illegal sale of narcotic drugs) and Part 1 of Art.

On July 30, 2011, in Yakutsk, police detained four Hare Krishnas for "unauthorized holding of a mass event" near the monument to Lenin. The detainees were taken to the police station, where they were drawn up protocols on an administrative offense under Art. 3.1 Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). As noted by Credo.ru , this article is not provides for responsibility for holding meetings.

August 3, 2011 Soviet District Court of Nizhny Novgorod delivered a guilty verdict in the case of 22-year-old Alexander Tomarov. He is recognized guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity, committed publicly or with the use of media) and sentenced to 1 year of hard labor.

August 2, 2011, on the day of the Airborne Forces, in Astrakhan there was mass brawl involving paratroopers and local residents. The paratroopers were heading to the cemetery to honor the memory of fallen comrades. According to eyewitnesses, several people were drunk, behaved aggressively and provoked a conflict with visitors and traders of the Bolshiye Isady market, among which there are many immigrants from the Caucasus.

On August 2, 2011, it became known that with respect to Yekaterinburg diocese, at the request of the head of one of the peasant farms farms of Verkhnyaya Pyshma, a case was initiated. According to the press service of Sverdlovsky Office of the Federal Antimonopoly Service, the diocese violated the law on the protection competition, failing to fulfill the order of the OFAS dated April 25, 2011.

On August 2, 2011, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' sent head of the Federal Property Management Agency Yury Petrov a letter with a request to cancel the order on transfer of buildings included in the ensemble of the Zaikonospassky Monastery in Moscow "third parties". In 2010, the Federal Property Management Agency secured several monastic buildings for FSUE "PromEx" and FSUE "Nauchno-issledovatelsky Center for Economic Change.

Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Rashid Nurgaliyev, speaking at visiting meeting of the interdepartmental commission on countering extremism, urged monitor the activities of "sects". "About ten large religious sects. This is of particular concern, because cult members often leave from families, break social ties, give away their property, and sometimes commit grave and especially grave crimes," the minister said.