February 4 2012 in St. Petersburg, unknown people threw into the premises of an Uzbek store "Tashkent" improvised explosive device. Employees succeeded put out the fire on your own. At the scene of the incident on the "panic button" were employees of the security company were called, with whom the store owners an agreement was signed, as well as a police squad of the local police department together with the district police officer.

At the beginning of February 2012, the results of the study “Religion in Russian Society: Traditional Religious and Liberal Views” were published: carried out by the social technology agency “Polytech” with the participation of the SOVA center and the ethnological monitoring network EAWARN. The text of the study is available in PDF file. The presentation of the research results took place at the Public Chamber on February 9, 2012.

In early February 2012, in Moscow, a group of young people aged 25-30 attacked a 42-year-old Congo native. A native of the Congo was returning home in a subway car, young people entered the Butovo station, one of whom shouted "look, black ..", "come on." When the man turned around to see who said it, he was punched several times in the face. After that, the young people got out of the car. As a result of the attack, the Congo native suffered injuries to his eyes, lips, and legs.

On February 8, 2012, representatives of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the European part of Russia addressed to the authorities of Smolensk with a request to return the church building to the community (ul. Lenina, 12).

On February 9, 2012, it became known that the Solovetsky stone on Trinity Square in St. Petersburg was desecrated. Unknown the vandals painted on it symbols often used by nationalists. Sources Vandals painted the Solovetsky stone on Trinity Square // Fontanka.ru. February 9, 2012.

On February 10, 2012, the prosecutor's office of the Tver region reported that the prosecutor's office of the Zavolzhsky district of Tver submitted a proposal to eliminate violations legislation on countering extremism and terrorism against the local provider. The reason for making the submission was that during check it turned out to be possible to access the site on which the books were placed, included in the Federal List of Extremist Materials.

On February 10, 2012, the Shpakovsky interdistrict SO of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Stavropol Territory announced the initiation of a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred and enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity) against a 43-year-old woman.

February 8, 2012 Kaliningrad the regional court decided to leave the decision of the Central District Court of Kaliningrad dated December 6, 2011. In its decision, the court affirmed the legality of allocating a land plot for the construction of a mosque on the territory of the city South Park.

On February 10, 2012, the 56th military investigative department of the RF Investigative Committee in the city of Kursk reported that a former soldier of one of the military units, Corporal Alexander Samofalov, was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of hatred and enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity).

On February 9, 2012, as part of the hearings on "Religion in a Secular Society", the Public Chamber hosted a presentation of the research "Religion in Russian Society: Traditional Religious and Liberal Views". The study was carried out by the Polytech social technology agency with the participation of the SOVA center and the EAWARN ethnological monitoring network and was based on telephone survey data. 1800 respondents took part in the survey.