December 1, 2011 at Young people aged 14-16 doused Kineshma with an incendiary mixture and set fire to the fence around the liturgical buildings of Jehovah's Witnesses. The action was committed in front of the members of the community and accompanied by threats against them. The fire was averted. Policemen two participants in the incident were detained, from whom 0.5 liters of lighter fluid, spray cans of paint, a knife and a screwdriver.

On November 1, 2011, the verdict of the Leninsky district court of the city of Kemerovo against a former student of the Kemerovo State Medical Academy (KemGMA) by Roman Kilin (previously reported by Silina), 1991 R. under part 1 of article 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public calls for the implementation of extremist activities).

December 9, 2011 The Kashin interdistrict prosecutor's office announced the results of the verification of information on the sale of the building of the former Sretensky Monastery in Kashin. The results of the audit showed that, according to the decision of the Assembly deputies of the district dated April 28, 2011 on making additions to the Program privatization of municipal property of the Kashinsky district, the building of the temple on the street.

8 December at the press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Bryansk region during a press conference Deputy Chief of Police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Bryansk Region for Operational work Alexander Pozdnyakov and the head of the department of organization of inquiry of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Andrey Rukhmakov was told about the disclosure of several crimes.

December 8, 2011 a special committee was set up to consideration of applications of religious organizations for the transfer of property religious purpose. The Commission is part of the Ministry of Economic Development RF. The order on the establishment of the commission was signed by the head of the ministry Elvira Nabiullina. Sources The Ministry of Economic Development will oversee the return of religious property in Russia // Interfax-religion. 2011. December 8.

On December 1, 2011, the Investigative Committee of the RF Investigative Committee for the Prioksky District of Nizhny Novgorod initiated criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting national hatred or enmity) against the head of some informal public organization.

December 6, 2011 it became known about the examination draft law "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation (according to the issue of countering extremist activity in the Russian Federation)", held by the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation. According to experts, many provisions of the bill need further discussion. The law should specify the concept of extremist activities, as well as to define more clearly the criteria for "extremist materials".

The following is our monthly review ofxenophobic and radical nationalist activity in Russia, and any response by thegovernment, for the month of November 2011. The overview is prepared based onSova Center’s daily monitoring activities. In November 2011, seven people were injuredin racist and neo-Nazi attacks, including one Nigerian who died as a result ofhis injuries.

November 2011 was marked by a large number of wrongful prosecutions, and a jump – as was expected – in the abuse of anti-extremist legislation during the parliamentary election campaign. Criminal Prosecution In November, we recorded at least five wrongful convictions in criminal cases: three for membership in the banned organization "Hizb ut-Tahrir," one against a follower of Said Nursi and one against Jehovah's Witnesses.

8 December 2011 on the site "Echo of Moscow" was published an appeal of the Orthodox journalist Valery Otstavnykh to conduct an Internet campaign “Ask the Patriarch to expose a lie elections." The author of the idea suggests sending it to the press service patriarch letters asking " to give the task secretariat and specialized synodal departments to study independent materials, concerning mass falsifications (with which the Internet is full), to find out the opinion ordinary people about the

6 December 2011, the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation adopted a decision in the case of verification of the constitutionality of the provisions of Art. 21.1 and paragraph 7. Art. 22 of the Federal Law "On State Registration of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs", on the basis of which they were excluded from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (EGRLE) individual religious organizations.