On February 1, 2012, the Industrial District Court of the city of Smolensk (Smolensk Region) sentenced A. Krichevtsev and S. Kozlov for attacking natives of India on April 20, 2011.

On February 1, 2012, the Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal declared lawful the orders of Roskomnadzor annulling the permission to distribute the magazines "Awake!" in October 2011, which recognized the orders of Roskomnadzor as illegal. and the Watchtower in Russia, the claim of the Jehovah's Witnesses, who challenged these orders, was dismissed.

February 1, 2012 Prosecutor's Office of the Kaliningrad Region reported on the issuance of a submission on the elimination of violations of the law, aimed at countering extremist activity, addressed to the head administration of the Moskovsky district of the city.

February 1, 2012 of the year, an open communication of the lawyers of the Slavic Legal Center was published to the Prosecutor General and to the Chairman of the Investigative Committee, dedicated the problem of incitement to hatred on the Internet.

In January 2012, in the city of Skopin, Ryazan Region, a verdict was passed in the case of inciting ethnic hatred (Part 1, Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). In the dock was a local resident Alexei Ermakov, who was accused of being on July 1 last year, being in a state of alcohol intoxication, covered one of the city walls with xenophobic slogans. The court found the young man guilty and sentenced him to 160 hours of compulsory work.

On February 1, 2012, Patriarch Kirill once again called on Orthodox believers to “be vigilant,” pray and not go to demonstrations, so as not to repeat the mistakes of the coups of the 20th century. “Today I call all of you to this vigilance,” he said in his sermon. - Be able to distinguish between spirits, remember that the loudest cry, the most piercing word is not always correct, faithful and honest.

On January 30, 2012 it became known that Vilyuchinsky The city court of the Kamchatka Territory did not see the corpus delicti in the actions of a member community of "Jehovah's Witnesses" of Galina Ivancha and did not find her guilty under Article 5.26 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (violation legislation on freedom of conscience, freedom of religion and religious associations).

In January 2012, a 23-year-old resident was detained in Penza Samara, who is suspected of organizing an attempt to undermine the forensic the center of the regional administration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation on the day of elections on December 4 last year. The young man has already confessed and explained his actions as nationalist motives.

On February 1, 2012, the Prosecutor's Office of the Kamchatka Territory announced completion of the investigation into the case of a racist attack on a native of Tajikistan Sh. Shonazarov, which happened in July last year. A local resident A. Pepelyaev will soon be in the dock, who is accused of inflicting beatings motivated by ethnic hatred (par. “b” Part 2 Art. 116 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

At the end of January 2012 year in Tomsk, an investigation into the case of initiating a national hatred (part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). A 19-year-old student will soon be in the dock second-year student of TUSUR, who is accused of being from September 2010 to July 2011 posted on his page in the social network "VKontakte" racist videos on the Federal List of Extremist materials .

On January 31, 2012, the Balashikha City Court of the Moscow Region passed a verdict against the director of the SAD publishing group, Aidar Khabibullin and Eduard Gabdrakhmanov . The court sentenced A. Khabibullin to four years in prison in a penal colony, finding him guilty under Part 1 of Art. 222 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (illegal storage of ammunition) and Part 1 of Art.