On December 19, 2011, the Moscow City Court held preliminary hearings in the case of the neo-Nazi grouping "Autonomous Combat Terrorist Organization" (ABTO). Recall that the case involved: Ivan Astashin (Spider), Bogdan Golonkov (Sapper), Alexander Bokarev (Pushkin), Grigory Lebedev, Kirill Krasavchikov, Andrey Markhai, Maxim Ivanov, I. Zaitsev, Y. Rudny, K. Povazhnaya (Wolf),. The defendants are charged with the following articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation: M. Ivanov - pp.

On December 19, 2011, the Khabarovsk Regional Court refused satisfy the claim of the regional prosecutor's office for the liquidation of the local religious organization "Church of Evangelical Christians "Grace" of the city Khabarovsk” and the prohibition of its activities in the territory of the region.

On December 18, 2011, the Central Election Commission refused to register a group of voters created to support the self-nomination of Boris Mironov as a candidate for the post of President of Russia Having examined the documents presented by B.

December 16, 2011 press service of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Perm Territory reported that a criminal case had been initiated on the case of xenophobic inscriptions on public transport stops and other public places of the city Tchaikovsky.

December 16, 2011 in Alexander's blog Lebedev, a deputy of the Sloboda District Duma of the Kirov Region and the owner of the National Reserve Corporation, against whom a criminal case under paragraph "b" h. 1 Article. 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (hooliganism motivated by hatred), appeared text entitled "V.V. Putin. Explanatory". From this text, in particular, it follows that on November 18, 2011 The Ostankinsky District Court of Moscow dismissed the complaint lawyer A.

On December 19, 2011, it became known that the Indian newspaper “Times of India” published an article “The book “Bhagavad Gita” is threatened to be recognized as extremist and may be banned in Russia,” dedicated to the trial in Tomsk. The article notes that the announcement of the verdict, scheduled for December 19, should occur a few days after the meeting of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

On December 19, 2011, the results of the survey were published, conducted by the Public Opinion Foundation on the order of the Sreda service. According to the study, almost half (43%) of Russians, who consider themselves Orthodox, never received communion. 53% of respondents approached communion at least once, 4% found it difficult to answer the question about the frequency of communion.

On December 16, 2011, a picket was held in Ufa in support of the chairman Council of the Bashkir Youth Kurultai Fanzil Akhmetshin, in respect of whom a criminal case was initiated under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity). The audience demanded to release F. Akhmetshin and remove everything from him accusations.

December 17, 2011 in Moscow in Nizhny Susalny Lane during a punk-rock party in a club "Air" burst into a group of Nazi skinheads, who began to smash everything. The guards asked the young people to leave the establishment several times, but drunk young people did not react to the remarks. Soon one of the visitors pulled out a traumatic pistol and opened fire. As a result of the shooting two guards were injured. 19-year-old Dmitry Solovyov received four bullets chest wounds.

December 19, 2011 Head of the Federal Security Service of Russia for the Chelyabinsk Region Lieutenant General Sergei Staritsyn announced that the region had stopped activities of the association of Nazi skinheads "Chelyabinsk Union". Nazi skinheads produced and distributed video and printed materials. A criminal case was initiated against the leader of the Chelyabinsk Union under Part 1 of Article 280 Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public calls for extremist activity).