On December 22, 2011, the Tverskoy District Magistrate Court of Moscow acquitted one of the leaders of the “Russians” movement, 32-year-old Dmitry Dyomushkin, who was accused of organizing an unauthorized rally (Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation) on Revolution Square on December 4. The basis for the acquittal was that the testimony of the police officers who spoke in court did not correspond to their reports.

On December 23, 2011, the SOVA Information and Analytical Center issued a statement regarding the participation of nationalists in the rally protest against electoral fraud on December 24, 2011 on Sakharov Avenue in Moscow. We know that today the organizers of tomorrow's rally protesters against electoral fraud are discussing the list of speakers at the rally and that one of the contentious issues remains the participation nationalists on this list.

At the end of December, the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information technologies and mass communications (Roskomnadzor) updated the list of "anti-extremist" warnings issued to media editors in 2011. Since the end of September, the following warnings have been added to the list: The editors of the newspaper " Zarya " for the publication in No.

On December 23, 2011 in Moscow the Institute of Law and Public Policy held a round table “Formal and informal systems of public regulation: welfare state, market economy and freedom of conscience in the context of post-Soviet legal development". The round table included three discussion blocks, one of which is “Secular state or the path to clericalism? - was dedicated problems of realization of freedom of conscience in Russia.

December 22 2011, the organizers of the Orthodox exhibition in St. Petersburg sent an open letter to the governor of the city Georgy Poltavchenko with a complaint about the infringement of rights believers by the St. Petersburg metro. According to them opinion, “ the leadership of the metro infringes on the rights of believers to receive objective information about the Orthodox events taking place in the city ”.

December 23 2011, representatives of the Russian Church told reporters that on December 20 of this year. was registered the ownership of CJSC "Profconsulting" on one of the buildings included in the ensemble of the Zaikonospassky Monastery.

On December 23, 2011, the " Federal List of Extremist Materials " was again updated , which is published on the website of the Ministry of Justice of Russia. It has been added 1058. The list was supplemented by the book of V. Istarkhov (collective pseudonym of V. Ivanov and V. Selivanova) “Strike of the Russian gods”, which has already been twice included in the list (p. 289, item 918). Recall that the history of the ban on the book "Blow of the Russian Gods" is very confused.