April 4 CO RF Investigative Committee for the Chelyabinsk region was informed about the initiation of a criminal case against 18-year-old resident of the village of Sargazy, Sosnovsky district, suspected under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity).

On April 3, 2012, searches were carried out in the homes of local ultra-rightists in Novgorod as part of a criminal investigation into a terrorist attack. March 20, 2012 at K.T. "Rus", near the Caucasian shawarma. The case of the explosion was initiated under part 1 Art. 223 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (illegal manufacture of explosive devices).

On April 3, 2012, the press service of Mosgostroynadzor announced intention to start the restoration of the Old Believer historical and architectural ensemble "Rogozhskaya Sloboda". It is planned to build engineering communications and road network, exemption from non-core use of the territory, demolition buildings that distort the historical character of the settlement.

On April 4, 2012, the Federal List of Extremist materials”, paragraphs were added to it. 1124-1132. The list was supplemented by xenophobic videos recognized as extremist by Prikubansky District Court of the city of Krasnodar in January 2012. Update of the Federal List of Extremist Materials dated April 4, 2012 of the year: 1124. Video “Russian, wake up! There is a war going on against you!" posted by Goncharov O.V.

April 4, 2012 employees of the Tula center "E" attempted to seize the circulation of the local newspaper "Honest Word" under the pretext of testing for extremism.

On April 3, 2012, Amnesty International published an appeal to Russian authorities calling for the release of the detained members of "Pussy Riot" as prisoners of conscience.

On March 20, 2012, the operative part was published decision of the Arbitration Court of the Moscow Region dated March 6 on the claim of Krestovozdvizhensky Jerusalem Stauropegial Convent to the Administration of the Leninsky Municipal district of the Moscow region and the rehabilitation center "Childhood".

March 29, 2012 in Irkutsk sentenced under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred) to a 20-year-old local resident, student of the Siberian Institute of Law of Economics and Management (SIPEU). The girl was sentenced to six months of corrective labor.

On April 3, 2012 Center "E" of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Vologda region reported about the arrest of a Nazi skinhead who was distributing a xenophobic video via the Internet. Young man on his page in a social network he posted a video with scenes of beating people from the Caucasus and Central Asia and calls for the forced eviction of these people outside the Russian Federation. Experts confirmed the presence of a hate motive in the video.

March 29, 2012 March 29 2012, the Federal Migration Service of Russia issued an anarchist activist movement, a Finnish citizen Antti Rautiainen an order within 15 days leave the Russian Federation on suspicion of intent to "violently overthrow constitutional order". Permission for temporary residence in Russia, which Antti Rautiainen had, canceled by order of the FSB on the basis of paragraphs. 1 p. 1 art. 7 Federal Law of the Russian Federation No.

On April 3, 2012, an appeal from the Supreme Church Council was published regarding the confrontation between the Church and “anti-Christian forces,” which “is becoming more and more obvious and acute.” Attacks on the Church, according to the authors of the document, have a political and anti-Russian background.

On April 4, 2012, it became known that the mayor's office of Novosibirsk did not gave permission for a rally in support of "Pussy Riot", scheduled for April 7th. Deputy Mayor Anatoly Kornilov motivated this decision by the fact that the group's performance in the Cathedral of Christ Savior "contradicts generally accepted norms of morality and morality" and caused "ambiguous the reaction of the inhabitants of Russia and the Novosibirsk region in particular.

On April 4, 2012, a group of Orthodox Christians addressed the mayor of Novosibirsk with a request to close sex shops. The authors of the appeal consider trade unacceptable erotic goods in a city that "claims to be a cultural and scientific center of Siberia”, and also report on the violations that accompany this trade Shops are often located closer than 500 meters from educational institutions.

April 3, 2012 The Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Communications, information technologies and mass communications (Roskomnadzor) updated list of "anti-extremist" warnings issued to media outlets in 2012. Since March 2012, the following warnings have appeared in the list: The editors of the newspaper "In Their Own Names" for the publication of the article by A. Sivov "View from Ukraine" in No. 6 (74) on February 7, 2012 G. Article A.

On April 4, 2012 it became known that on March 30 the Minister of Culture Russian Federation Alexander Avdeev signed a decree on the allocation of 10 million rubles for the development project documentation for the restoration of three cultural monuments located in use of the Kaliningrad diocese - the Brandenburg castle and two churches (in the villages Krasnolesye and Lugovoe). Restoration is expected to begin in 2013 and be completed by 2018.