On January 12, 2012, 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 pp. 1067-1068. The list was supplemented by xenophobic brochures recognized as extremist by the Central District Court of Novosibirsk in October 2011. Update of the Federal List of Extremist Materials dated January 12, 2012 of the year.

eleven January 2012, Vladimir Putin distributed duties between the first deputies, deputy prime ministers and the head of the government apparatus of the Russian Federation. Supervise issues of interaction with religious organizations entrusted to Vladislav Surkov. To his own the department was assigned issues of education, culture and art, youth and demographic policy.

On January 6, 2012, in Samara, at a match between the teams Krylya Sovetov-2 (Samara) - Neftyanik (Otradnoye), held at the Volga stadium, about 15 ultra-right fans of Krylya Sovetov attacked three anti-fascists who came to the game. One of the anti-fascists was hit several times, after which all three managed to escape. Sources Based on materials from right-wing radical sites.

On January 12, 2012, the prosecutor's office of the Tyumen region announced that she sent to the world court of the city of Noyabrsk a criminal case against 16-year-old secondary school student. A student is accused of being on August 7, 2011 produced leaflets calling for violence against "non-Slavs" and pasted them on one of the residential buildings of Noyabrsk, and also distributed them around the district, including including near your school.

In early January 2012, information appeared about the transfer to trial of the case of a well-known public activist from Nizhny Novgorod Alexei Celestial. In the investigation of the case initiated at the beginning under Part 1 of Art. 111 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (deliberate infliction of grievous bodily harm), and then also under Part 3. Art. 30, art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (attempted murder) and Part 2 of Art.

On December 27, 2011 the prosecutor's office of the Unechi district of the Bryansk region sent to the court a criminal case on the desecration of graves on the city cemetery in the city of Unecha on July 6, 2011. Yevgeny Marchenko (b. 1991) is charged with pp. “a, b "part 2 of Art.

On January 12, 2012, it became known about the appeal of the Moscow Atheist Society to Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika with a demand to check the legality of the participation of officials in the ceremony of welcoming the Belt of the Virgin Mary , brought in the fall of 2011 from Mount Athos.

On January 12, 2012, the media reported about the desecration of the monument to the dead employees of the Academy of Logistics and Transport at the Smolensk cemetery in St. Petersburg. During the New Year holidays, the symbol 14/88 appeared on the obelisk. The inscription was accidentally noticed by a viewer. Cemetery administration about the fact vandalism learned from journalists. Sources Neo-Nazis desecrated the obelisk at the Smolensk cemetery // tv100.ru. 2011. January 12.

On January 12, 2012, it became known about the decision of the Sovetsky district of Ulan-Ude, obliging Internet providers in Buryatia to restrict access to the website of Jehovah's Witnesses (name not reported), which contains the texts "What Does the Bible Really Teach?", "How Blood Can Save by the decision of the Rostov Regional Court in 2009 your life?”, “Pay attention to Daniel’s prophecy!”, “My book of biblical stories”, which were recognized as extremist (one of the texts in the court

January 12, 2012 at Tyumen, a criminal case was initiated under Art. 282.2 (organization of activities of extremist organization) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation in relation to a 31-year-old Tyumen suspected of creating units of the banned organization At-Takfir Val Hijra". Subsequently, the name of the detainee became known - Ruslan Nasirov. The detainee is also charged with distributing extremist literature (names of publications are not specified).

January 12, 2012 Shchelkovsky City Court (Moscow region) dismissed the complaint of the director of the Publishing Group "New Era" by F.A. Asmanova against the decision of June 27, 2011 on the initiation of a criminal cases under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting religious hatred) over the distribution of Ron Hubbard's books.