On January 24, 2012, the Lomonosovsky District Court of the city of Arkhangelsk ruled sentence to 23-year-old Artem Morozov. He was found guilty under Part 2 of Art. 280 (public calls for the implementation extremist activity), Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred or enmity).

On January 18, 2012, it became known that the Buddhist monastery Shadtchupling in Kachkanar fears that nearby EVRAZ Kachkanar Mining and Processing Plant (KGOK) is dismantling buildings monastery. The leader of the Kachkanar Buddhists Alexander Berezin addressed with an open letter to D. Medvedev and V. Putin. The letter states that since 2001 the monastery has been trying to register the land and buildings, but met opposition from side of the KGOK administration.

January 24, 2012 RF IC for of the Kaluga region announced that the chief the reactor of the newspaper "Kazachiy Vzglyad". (Chief editor of the newspaper - chieftain of the Cossack Community in Serebryaniki Alexander Dzikovitsky). He's accused of crimes provided for n. «b» h.2 Article. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred and enmity for grounds of race, nationality) and Part 2 of Art.

On January 24, 2012, the State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted in the first reading the draft federal law “On Amendments to Article 22.1 of the Federal Law “On State Registration of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs” and Articles 331 and 351.1 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation.” The bill provides for a ban on working with minors for those who have committed crimes against the foundations of the constitutional order (Chapter 29 of the Criminal Code of the Russian

January 24, 2012 Chairman of the Muslim community Kostroma, Khasan Zaripov said that on January 15, the community sent Vladimir Putin complaint against the refusal of the city administration to issue permits for continued construction of the mosque. The community also contacted the legal department of the administration, where Muslims were assured that the issue of construction should be resolved in soon. Recall that the conflict around the Kostroma mosque has been going on for several years.

On January 24, 20012, it became known that the representative Coordinating Center of Muslims of the North Caucasus in Moscow, Shafig Pshikhachev became new Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for the Support of Islamic Culture, Science and education. Previously, this position was held by the rector of the Moscow Islamic Marat Murtazin University.

On January 21, 2012, the prosecutor's office of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic announced that it had filed an application with the court to recognize as extremist the commentary to the article "Instruction for those who hesitate in the issue of complicity in the holidays of the infidels" as extremist. The publication and comments to it were discovered during Internet monitoring on one of the "extremist sites".

January 24 2012, the Moscow prosecutor's office announced that the verdict had come into force dated December 14, 2011 Zyuzinsky District Court of Moscow in a criminal case against 40-year-old Petr Samorodov. Recall that the man was sentenced under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting national hatred) to 1 year of imprisonment conditionally for placement in December 2009 on the Internet of the book of Adolf Hitler "Mein Kampf" ("Main Kampf").

On January 23, 2012, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Southern Federal District and the Federal Security Service for the Rostov Region reported that in relation to one of the leaders of the non-registered Cossacks of the South of Russia Petr Molodidov, who is serving time for a double murder, has a new criminal case under part 2 of article 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public calls for the implementation of extremist activities).

In December 2011, the Soviet District Court of the city Rostov-on-Don recognized as extremist the article "Peter Molodidov: for "Cossacks" for the Cossacks". The author of the article, Petr Molodidov, published this article in newspaper "Cossack look", published in the Kaluga region.