January 21, 2012 at Maloyaroslavets, Kaluga region, about 300 football fans of FC Spartak, Lokomotiv, Dynamo, CSKA, Torpedo, Khimki, Saturn marched with with the aim of sending a petition in support of the fan Alexei Ershov. Alexey Ershov a fan of FC Spartak in September 2011 during a mass brawl with several natives of Armenia received several stab wounds from 19-year-old Alik Simonyan (in the initial news, he was erroneously called Andronik) and a month spent in the hospital.

On January 20, 2012, in the Argayashsky District Court (Chelyabinsk Region), a trial began against 32-year-old Vildar Yakupov, a resident of the village of Ayazgulovo, accused under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of hatred or enmity). According to investigators, in 2003-2006 the accused received religious education in Saudi Arabia.

January 20, 2012 RF IC for of the Kemerovo region announced the completion of the investigation of the criminal case under part 1 Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting national hatred) in relation to the 31-year-old a resident of the city of Kemerovo. According to investigators, the man printed several xenophobic leaflets which he distributed in the regional center, pasted on the windshields of cars.

On January 21, 2012, an Orthodox rally "For Holy Rus'!" was held on the Taras Shevchenko embankment in Moscow. in support of V. Putin. The organizer of the action was the Russian Cultural and Educational Foundation named after St. Basil the Great and the agricultural holding "Russian Milk". According to the organizers, 2.5 thousand people took part in the rally, according to observers - about 800.

On January 23, 2012, Other Russia activist Tatyana Kharlamova was brought in for questioning in a criminal case initiated in 2008 under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 (participation in the activities of an extremist organization).

In mid-January, it became known that in December 2011 local antifa activists Artyom Bystrov, Pavel Krivonosov, Oleg Gembaruk, Albert Gainutdinov and Dmitry Kolesov were charged in Nizhny Novgorod. All of them are charged under Part 2 of Art. 282.1 of the Criminal Code (participation in an extremist community), part 2 of Art. 213 (hooliganism committed by an organized group of persons or associated with resistance to a representative of the authorities), paragraph "b" part 2 of Art.

On January 19, 2012, in St. Petersburg, the Vasileostrovskiy District Court granted the application of the prosecutor's office and recognized it as extremist material book 73-year-old lieutenant colonel retired medical officer, Academician of the Petrovsky Academy of Sciences and Arts Oleg Vinogradov "Ancient Vedic Rus'. Foundations of existence. (Fragments from the true initial history of the Slavs) ”(St. Petersburg, 2004, 712 p.).

On January 23, 2012, speaking at the opening of the 20th Christmas Educational Readings in Moscow, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' announced the need to create a legal framework that would guarantee budgetary funding for Orthodox educational institutions. “Some work has been done in this direction, the relevant amendments to federal and regional legislation have been formulated, which are currently being considered by relevant state structures.

On January 23, 2012, presidential candidate Vladimir Putin delivered a policy article on the “national question,” which he had recently promised at a meeting with St. Petersburg football fans. What does it essentially say and propose? Firstly, Putin returned to the theses that he and Dmitry Medvedev promoted from December 2010 to February 2011 , in the wake of the events on Manezhnaya Square, but then practically stopped mentioning.

On January 20, 2012, Moskovsky Komsomolets published an article “The memory of the greats has gone to dust,” which spoke of the intention of the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow to regain the territory of the old columbarium, where the ashes of many famous people are buried. In the autumn of 2011, the administration of the New Cemetery of the Donskoy Monastery informed the relatives of the buried that the urns with the ashes would be moved, because.

On January 19, 2012, an indictment in the criminal case of members of the far-right group “Oryol Partisans” was approved in Oryol. The case was transferred to the 3rd District Military Court. 12 young people accused of committing 40 crimes will soon be in the dock.