On August 15, 2011, the police officers of St. Petersburg seized the circulation of the newspaper "Fair Russia" - Petersburg. While unloading the circulation, police officers appeared at the warehouse, who demanded that the representatives of "Fair Russia" and the printing house present title documents.

August 16, 2011 at an interdepartmental meeting on countering extremism in St. Petersburg Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Rashid Nurgaliyev reported that law enforcement agencies record an increase in interethnic tension and protest moods in the Northwestern Federal District Russia. " The situation continues to be difficult on the territory lines of extremism. There is an increase in interethnic tension and protest sentiment among certain categories of citizens ," he said.

On August 16, 2011, the prosecutor's office applied to the Lyubertsy City Court with statements about providers restricting access to extremist materials. In the prosecutor's checks carried out in educational institutions , found that three ISPs provide opportunities downloading information included in the federal list of extremist materials. The claims are under consideration.

On August 23, 2011, the Volzhsky District Court of Saratov began considering the case of Saratov blogger, member of the Communist Party Vladimir Maslov. He is charged with part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting national hatred or feuds committed in public or with using the media." Recall that the reason for initiating the case was anti-Semitic posts on the forums agencies.

New amendments in articles 280 and 282 of the Criminal Code are justified, among other things, by the growth number of extremist crimes. But speaking of violent extremist crimes, then such an increase is not happening now at all. And if we count the crimes of a propaganda nature, then it is impossible to assess the dynamics, because it is not clear what refers to these crimes, and what is not, it turns out only in court.

August 23, 2011 First Deputy Mayor of Moscow Vladimir Resin on the air of "Echo of Moscow" said that the plots for the construction of 200 Orthodox temples have been selected. “Of these, 19 have already started work,” he said. According to V. Resin, construction is being carried out on donations, for which a special Fund was created to support the construction of Moscow churches.

On August 17 and 19, 2011, the Prosecutor's Office of the Amur Region canceled decisions to refuse to initiate criminal proceedings in connection with statements on Portamur.ru website and a speech by a member of the Public Chamber of the Amur Region Irina Militskaya aimed at inciting enmity towards members of the Pentecostal New Generation Church. On the initiation of cases under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation the pastor insisted Mikhail Darbinyan.

On August 15, 2011, the head of the department of the counteraction center extremism of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the region, Andrey Mozhaisky reported that in 2011, three criminal cases were initiated in the Krasnoyarsk Territory for inciting national hatred. Two of these cases were initiated in Krasnoyarsk.

At the end August 2011 Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information technologies and mass communications ( Roskomnadzor ) issued a warning editors of the electronic periodical "Network Edition Segodnya.ru" for Internet distribution publications by S. Spiridonov "Leningrad Kondopoga" (www.segodnia.ru/index.php?prig=2&partid=5&newsid=14195).

12th of August 2011 Leninsky district court of Tomsk began consideration of the claim of the prosecutor's office Tomsk about the recognition of the extremist book "Bhagavad-Gita. As it is" under the authorship of Bhakti Vedanta Swami Prabhupada - a commentary on the monument of ancient Indian literature.