On December 19, 2011, the Novorossiysk District Office initiated a criminal case on part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred) on the fact of distribution through the fact of distribution in the territory of Novorossiysk, Abinsk, Krymsk newspapers "News of the Slavs of the South of Russia".

December 20, 2011 it became known that on December 13, 2011, at the initiative of the Center for countering extremism of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Samara Region against the chief the editor of the Internet portal TLTgorod Sergey Davydov, a case was initiated under Art. part 1 Art.

On December 8, 2011, in Moscow, on the territory of JSC AREMZ-1 (Volnaya St., 28), a chapel was consecrated in honor of the Saint, the Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible, who was not glorified by the Church.

December 20, 2011 became aware of a new missionary initiative Chelyabinsk mufti - he will answer questions received in SMS messages. Such a practice, according to the mufti, "will bring confessors closer to the people and help to get to know them better. Sources The city mosque is being modernized in Chebarkul. It was equipped with a webcam broadcasting sermons to the main page of the official website www.muslims74.ru // Islam in the Russian Federation. 2011. December 20.

In December 2011, information about the development of events appeared around the newspaper "Donskoe Vremya". After the newspaper "Donskoye Vremya" were issued two warnings about the inadmissibility of extremist activity, the Directorate Roskomnadzor for the Rostov region sent a statement of claim to the court on termination of this newspaper.

On December 17 and 18, 2011, in his sermons, Patriarch Kirill expressed his attitude towards the protest movements against the falsification of the results of the Duma elections. In his opinion, the best way to resolve conflicts is a peaceful “real civil dialogue” with the authorities.

On December 15, 2011, plainclothes police officers were the service of Jehovah's Witnesses in Naberezhnye Chelny was disrupted. The police officers who entered the prayer hall demanded show the passports and transcribed the personal data of the members present at the meeting communities. The three men were forcibly taken to the police station, where they photographed and fingerprinted. Jehovah's Witnesses intend to appeal the illegal actions of employees police.

December 13, 2011 in Moscow, the justice of the peace of the court No. 265 (Lyublino) found a resident of Samara, Zomonbek Nishanbaev, guilty under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organization of the activities of an extremist organization) and sentenced to 9 months of imprisonment. Taking into account the preliminary conclusion, Z. Nishanbaev must leave released in early January 2012.

On December 20, 2011, the Murom City Prosecutor's Office of the Vladimir Region reported that a local the resident was fined under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (propaganda and public display of Nazi paraphernalia or symbols or paraphernalia or symbols similar to Nazi paraphernalia or symbols to the extent mixing), Art.

20th of December 2011, it became known that the Adyghe Republican Public Movement (AROD) "Circassian Congress" appealed to the Maikop city court the warning on the inadmissibility of carrying out extremist activities issued by to him on September 23, 2011 by the Office of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Adygea.

December 19, 2011 was published a letter from the Deputy Governor of the Pskov region G.A. Bezlobenko, expressing the position of the administration regarding the possibility of registering the building of the church in Pskov (Plekhanovsky Posad street). The letter lists violations preventing the registration of the building, which were already mentioned at the meeting of the Council for Interethnic and Interfaith Relations in November 2011.