On February 20, 2012, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Kurgan Region announced that a criminal case had been initiated under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of the dignity of a person or a group of persons on the grounds of nationality, language, committed in public) against a 21-year-old local resident.

On February 9, 2012, Nikita Kalin (b. 1991) was killed in Samara near the FIAN Institute. It is reported that N. Kalin "did not hide his anti-fascist and anarchist views." About 61 stab wounds, multiple rib fractures and head injuries were recorded on the body of the deceased. He was not robbed, personal belongings and money were with him. A suspect has been arrested in connection with the murder.

As we learned in February 2012, in Arkhangelsk, the chairman of the local trade union of migrants Dmitry Dubonos lost the case on the liquidation of the trade union. Recall that in June 2011 the Arkhangelsk regional prosecutor's office filed a lawsuit with the regional court liquidation of the Territorial Trade Union of Workers organizations using the labor of migrants of the Arkhangelsk region" ("TP MAO").

On January 31, 2012 in Moscow, in the space of the exhibition “Memory Art / Art of Memory 19/91” (ARTPLAY), a discussion “Strengths and weaknesses of the civil movement” was held, in which sociologist Alexander Bikbov, director of the SOVA Center Alexander Verkhovsky, historian and trade union activist Andrey Demidov, historian Vadim Damier, sociologist Irina Surkichanova, journalist and social activist Vlad Tupikin, sociologist Olga Miryasova, political scientist Ute Weinmann, KTR press

On February 20, 2012, it became known that the Muslims of the village of Srednyaya Yeluzan, Penza Region, achieved the transfer of the construction site of a large pig farm. Initially, the construction site was chosen 10 km from the village, but local residents began to apply to various authorities, arguing that the pig farm was not compatible with Muslim traditions.

On February 16, 2012, the police disrupted a worship service of Jehovah's Witnesses in Yelabuga. They surrounded the premises where the service was held, detained the audience (about 30 people) and for several hours copied their passport data, and searched some of them. All this was accompanied by insulting statements about the dogma of Jehovah's Witnesses. Several people were taken to the department. The reasons for the invasion are not reported.

On February 20, 2012, the Moscow Regional Court ordered the prosecutor's office to apologize in due form to the leader of the All-Russian People's Militia named after Minin and Pozharsky (NOMP), retired colonel of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) Vladimir Kvachkov for unfounded criminal prosecution on charges of attempting to assassinate the ex-head RAO "UES of Russia" Anatoly Chubais.

On February 9, 2012, a round table was held at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the issues of religious expertise and the fight against extremism. The organizers were IE RAS, the Guild of Experts in Religion and Law and the All-Russian Organization for the Protection of Freedom of Conscience.

On February 18, 2012, in addition to Moscow, nationalist actions “Mirzaev must sit!” were held in several Russian cities. with a demand to punish the athlete Rasul Mirzaev, accused of the murder of 19-year-old Ivan Agafonov. The reason for the action was the decision of the Zamoskvoretsky Court (subsequently canceled by the Moscow City Court) to release the athlete on bail. In St.