On January 11, 2012, the Moscow City Court began considering the case of a neo-Nazi grouping "Autonomous Combat Terrorist Organization" (ABTO). Recall that 10 people are involved in the case: Ivan Astashin (Spider), Bogdan Golonkov (Sapper), Alexander Bokarev (Pushkin), Grigory Lebedev, Kirill Krasavchikov, Andrey Markhai, Maxim Ivanov, Igor Zaitsev, Yaroslav Rudny, Ksenia Povazhnaya (She-wolf), some of which were also members of now banned organizations DPNI and the Slavic Union.

On January 11, 2012, it became known that the Museum of the History of Moscow had completely vacated the Church of St. ap. John the Evangelist on New Square. The museum is now located in the premises of the Provision Stores on Zubovsky Boulevard. The temple, in which services have been held since October 9, 2011, is included in the city program of restoration and restoration work. The estimated completion date for restoration work is 2013-2014.

December 31, 2011 in the village of Maloe Isakovo, Kaliningrad region, an attack was made on a native of Uzbekistan. A 46-year-old man was taken to the hospital with several stab wounds to the abdomen, from which he died a few minutes after receipts. No robbery was reported. Sources A guest worker died in Kaliningrad, and a woman almost killed her roommate in Baltiysk // Klops.ru. 2012. January 1st.

On January 11, 2012 the results were published sociological survey conducted by the Sreda service and the Public Opinion Foundation in 100 settlements of 44 subjects of the federation. During the study it was 1500 people were interviewed. According to the data received, in the life of Orthodox parishes are involved 15% of the respondents, of which only 1% can be classified as active parishioners.

On January 1, 2012, a native of Russia was murdered in Moscow from Tajikistan. Body with slit throat found at half past six morning in the courtyard of house number 19 on Krasnokazarmennaya street. It is reported that the man worked in Moscow as a janitor. No robbery was reported. Sources Moscow: skinheads brutally cut the throat of a janitor from Tajikistan // Expressinform News. 2012. January 2.

On January 5, 2012, the head of the Synodal Department for relationship between the Church and society, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin in his blog on The Russian News Service published a number of theses on the political situation in Russia. “If the authorities do not want to be slowly gnawed, and the people - feed someone else's army and someone else's business, you need to move from "stability" to the dictatorship of conscience and will. political will and moral,” Father Vsevolod believes.

On January 11, 2012, it became known that at the end of December 2011, the administration of Perm decided to transfer the building of the Perm maternity hospital “Aistenok” to the Perm diocese, which intends to open a “Women’s Health Clinic” in this building. The maternity hospital was closed for renovations in 2008, and then the building was put up for auction.