On February 4, 2012, a column of nationalists took part in the procession and rally "For Fair Elections" in Moscow (the participation of individual "political columns" was agreed upon by the organizing committee). The number of the column at the beginning of the procession was about 500 people, and by the time they entered Bolotnaya Square, it had grown to about 800-900 people due to those who were late.

January 2012 saw at least 11 people killed and 10 more injured in racist and neo-Nazi attacks in Moscow and St. Petersburg and the Kaliningrad, Voronezh and Tver regions. The victims were non-Slavic individuals and anti-fascist activists, primarily those participating in a January 19 rally in memory of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova, the lawyer and journalist who were murdered in broad daylight in Central Moscow by a neo-Nazi in 2009.